Chap. 270.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1707 of the Code of Vir-
ginia. {[S B 167]
Approved March 15, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion seventeen hundred and seven of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Sec. 1707. Qualifications of applicants.—The applicant who de-
sires to practice professional nursing shall furnish satisfactory
evidence that she or he is more than twenty-one years of age, is of
good moral character, has received sufficient preliminary education
as may be determined by the board, and has graduated from a train-
ing school of a hospital giving practice in medical, surgical, and ob-
stetrical nursing, either through and under the hospital organizations,
or by affiliation, and maintaining the standards required by the board,
and where at least two years’ training in the hospital and systematic
courses of instruction are given, provided that the applicant shall
have attended for at least eighteen months the said training school
from which she graduated. .