Her training was as good as that given in the best hospitals North

A part of the colored work in our Convocation claims my especial interest. St. Agnes Hospital and Training School for nurses should appeal to Southern women, as we know how well adapted colored girls are by nature for nursing. For several weeks last winter a graduate of St. Agnes Training School was under my supervision day and night. Her training was as good as that given in the best hospitals North, and her conduct and gentleness were so excellent that we were glad to know such a representative of the colored people. The nurses are sent out into the neighborhood of St. Agnes School to do nursing among the poor negro families. I knew a poor colored woman who was dying with rapid consumption, whom these nurses relieved of any special suffering or made comfortable several times each week. The nurses also teach those around the suffering ones how to care for them. May I commend this noble work to our Woman’s Auxiliary?

(Source: Mattie H. Bailey, Secretary of the Raleigh Convocation, 1903 Woman’s Auxiliary Annual Report, 21)