The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-30

the lungs and hips as well. He had been changing his own dressings. being lable to get about; the old dressing had been thrown into a corner to lie for Idays- The dressing is now done by the nurse. and every possible preeaution is taken and instruction given
 '.The city of New Haven could well afford to pay several trained nurses to go about into the houses of the poor and lgiYe instruction and object lessons on the danger and case of such cases. The Boston nurses carry with them direc- ltions published by the Boston dispensa- Try for the guidance of consumptive pa- tients which they distribute wherever needed"
 One other quotation from the Chicago report: No institution Or organization fearing for unfortunates in Chicago to- lday comes more in close and daily con- tact with the people than the visiting nurses, for every family visited does not heed alone the nursing care, but advice and help in hundreds of other ways. Gases which hospitals never hear of, (which relies societies do not come to, are cared for by this association. No set Iof workers could better discover unsan- litary conditions, or can possibly be bet tier authorities on the inadequacy of hospital service both for children and ladults in Chicago. This was demon- lstrated during the recent visit of Dr.. lLorenz, when scores of our cases were brought to his clinics that would not have reached him in any other way, I,1 from qFfIIaI daily experience, that little children suffer for lack of care in contagious dis leases"
 Now as regards the modus operandi lof the work. In Boston, which began with one nurse, fifteen are now employ ed. They are expected to work eight hours each week day. but only in ex- lceptional cases on Sunday, holidays or nights. The pay is small. but any nurse becoming a district nurse must take uo the work from love of human lity, and true Christian spirit. and no other nurse will do. We know that there are such women in the profession.
 Mrs. W. T. Sedgwick of Boston in her paper on District Nursing published in The Forum of November, 1S96 says:
 Notwithstanding the peculiar hard
 ships and the relatively small salary,
 the independence that all enjoy with leisure in the evening and on Sundays,
 and a months vacation in summer;
 the valuable experience derived from the treatment of so wide a range of dis eases make the cares of a district nurse
 very attractive to many women, as is
 evideneed by the long service of almost
 all the present staff" In many places
 patients are encouraged to pay if they
 can a small sum for each visit, the rev.
 enue from which goes to the associa-
 tion. The nurse is as much under the
 control and orders of the attending physician as if she were nursing pri- vate case and responsible to the asso-
 ciation for her general work"
 It would seem that all that is neces- lsary to assume success in our own city is that the public should be enlightened about the matter.
 Formal incorporation of the Visiting Nurse association of New Haven has
 been accomplished through the aid oi Attorney Harrison Hewitt, who drew , IuD the papers and caused them to be sent to Hartford for fling. The three Iincorporators are Mrs. Hannah J. Ben , Inet.. wife of Thomas G. Bennett of the !, Winchester Repeating Arms company , Mrs. Lillian F. Prudden and Mrs. liar. , riet K Munger, wife of Rev. T. T. Nun 2 Iger. D. D.
 The objects of the association as they , Iare set forth in the papers are: The
 benefit and assistance of those other. wise unable to secure skilled assistance i, in the time of sickness; instruction as
 to the care of the sick, and the laws oi : wholesome living and the dissemination z Iof information as to the spread of con- 1, Itagious diseases.