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Vintage Postcards of Indiana Health FacilitiesHealthcare in Indiana, continuedBall Residence for Nurses%u2014%u2014I.U. Medical Center%u2014%u2014Indianapolis, Indiana%u2014%u2014Established 1928Nursing students were first housed in Long Hospital, then in residential housing nearby, but when more spacewas needed, George and Frank Ball of Muncie donated $500,000 for the construction of this Residence for Nurses.On February 27, 1905, an Indiana State Board of Examination and Registration of Nurses was created to insure that all graduates were competent. After this, courses in subjects such as bacteriology and chemistry were introduced, along with more standardized clinical training. By 1908, the number of Indiana healthcare facilities offering nursing schools had risen to 8 hospitals and sanitariums, and by 1938, there were 28 accredited nursing schools throughout Indiana. One advocate of nursing professionalism was Dr. Charles P. Emerson, Dean of the Indiana University Medical School. In 1914, he founded the Indiana University Training School for Nurses, and hired Alice Fitzgerald as Director. In an historical account of the school, it stated that when Fitzgerald arrived in Indianapolis, having graduated from the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, the %u201cLong Hospital (the I. U. Medical School%u2019s teaching hospital) stood stark, new, and unfinished. The city dump west of the hospital, cornfields, and a few nondescript houses scattered about the neighborhood added no charm to the desolate surroundings.%u201d Despite bleak setting, during her first year, Fitzgerald was able to admit five students to the new nursing program. All were healthy, young, single, and female. It was not until 1943 that a married woman was allowed admittance, and it took until 1964, to enroll the first male. While the nursing school was originally under the control of the Indiana University Medical School, it became a separate institution in 1965. A Case of Quackery Dr. Charles Frederick Kaadt, a 1902 graduate of Iowa%u2019s Keokuk Medical College, moved to Fort