The Swiss Red Cross Central Committee has given its approval to new directives for general nursing schools recognized by the National Society and for maternity and child welfare nursing schools. These directives lay down the aims of the training period and its duration, which is unchanged at three years. They also affect the organization and teaching staff in the schools, the syllabi, reporting on students’ work and behaviour, examinations for graduation, and measures taken for safeguarding the health of candidates.

The International Review has referred on several occasions to an original work of humanity and which started, as we believe, on the initiative of the British Red Cross. This is a mobile picture library in hospitals, a Service known as the “Picture Library Scheme” and which is widespread in a number of countries. This therapy by art could throughout be seen to have excellent results and be of genuinely beneficial influence for the sick.