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The Chairman stated that he had received a letter from Mr. W. Rathbone, M.P. for Liverpool, on the subject of a proposition he (Mr. Rathbone) made as to supplying the workhouse hospital with trained nurses. [ Although the way this meeting received him does not convey it, William Rathbone was the sixth generation of a highly effective family of philanthropic businessmen. Rathbone established the Liverpool training school and home for nurses in 1862. It was from this that the district nursing system was implemented in the city and spread throughout the UK. Another of Rathbone's achievements was improving the poor state of the workhouse hospitals. ]

His wife, Nancy L. (Emerson) Rathbone, died in 1983. He leaves two sons, Richard Rathbone of Concord, N.H., and Gary Rathbone of Putnam; two daughters, Deborah Rathbone of Kissimee, Fla., and Sandra Rathbone of Putnam; and a brother, Robert Rathbone of Syracuse, N.Y.

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Frankfurter reviews Egypt from Alexander to the Early Christians: An Archaeological and Historical Guide edited by Roger S. Bagnall and Dominic W. Rathbone.

As president of the Association of Art Museum Directors in the mid 1960's, Mr. [Perry T. Rathbone] lobbied against an effort in Congress to change a provision of the tax laws (not to be confused with a loophole) that permits the owners of paintings to deduct the ''market value'' of their works if they contribute them to museums. Some Congressmen wanted to limit the deduction to the original purchase price. To use Mr. Rathbone's example, if a Winslow Homer had been bought in 1920 for $10,000, that would have been the permitted deduction even though the painting might now be ''worth'' $210,000. The difficulty of making a political case for the arts, whether yesterday's masterpieces or today's experiments, was put simply by Richard Mittenthal, a vice president of the New York Community Trust, which gives several million dollars a year for diverse causes in this city. ''It's easy to figure out the needs of the homeless, the hungry,'' he said, ''but you can't do that in the arts. There's no way to quantify.'' As Robert Miller, chairman of the Alaska State Council on the Arts, sees the situation, Government is intent on lowering artistic standards. Mr. Miller warned that bureaucrats are not to be trusted to assess conflicting needs and demands where the arts are concerned. He advised his colleagues to avoid coming up with too coherent a definition of a desired national policy toward the arts, not that there was much danger of that. ''Vague is ideal,'' he said. ''Ambiguity is vital.'' He confessed, ''I never give a politician more information than he needs - and