The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-02
LOCAL WOMEN BAND TOGETHER TO WARD
 OFF TUBERCULOSIS
Mass Meeting to be Held in the City
 Hall Next Tuesday.

Many Society Leaders Identified in | Movement to Educate Families in Preventing Spread of Great White Plaugue-Nurse in Stricken Homes Provides Families With Proper Food, Fresh Eggs and Helpful En- structions.
 1 In keeping with an aggressive cam
 paign to ward off the scourge of tub l erculosis in this city and vicinity, the Visiting Nurses association has secur- | ed the sanction of the city fathers for
 a. mass meeting to be held in the city
 hall next Tuesday afternoon to sti1nu 1 late interest in the work of the associ ation. The meeting will be addressed
 by many eminent speakers, and the
 work of the association will be dis ! cussed at length.
 | The officers of the association decid- ed upon the meeting as a proper means | of bringing to the personal attention | Of Br1dgepOrterS the work now carried l on to cure and prevent consumption. It will also afford an opportunity for to join in the work, and to those who wish to contribute to the support of i the movement.
 The society is headed by Mrs. Herbert M. Knapp, president. The other ofhc- CTS are Mrs: H. H. Pyle, first vice president; Mrs. M. H. Ford, second
 vice president; Mrs; Orville Rector
 treasurer; executive board of directors Mrs. Charles B. Read, Miss Elizabeth
 Bishop and Mrs. Samuel H. Wheeler. The Visiting Nurses association, an organization comprising Bridgeport women, anany of them of social prom thence, has been formed with the idea or maintaining one Or more profession al nurses whose sole duty it is to fight tuberculosis. Miss Frances Ladd of
 643 Warren street is the nurse of the association at present. She visits up- wards of 60 families every week, in some eases administering bedside care, in others giving instructions as to sanitation, the care of the patient, and the means of preventing the spread of the disease.
 Miss Ladd first receives the report en family, charity organizations, or from other patients. On her first visit she inquires into the financial and sanitary conditions of the home.
 In a dep1orably large number of eases the finances are low. In such cases the patient must remain at home,
 where a change to different environ ment might prove of untold benefit.
 As an evidence of the practical na-
 ture of the work of the visiting nurse it may be stated that the nurse pro-
 vides the consumptive with boxes in
 which to expectorate. She advises
 the families of the patients as to the
 the washing of the dishes in boiling
 water, the assignment of the patient
 to a room which has no other occu- pants, and provides the families with
 liberal supplies of disinfectant. She also leaves printed directions for the
 care of the patients, and supplies fresh
 eggs and other nourishing fod when it
 is lacking. When she finds patients
 without a doctors care she sees that
 they receive attention from either the
 city doctors, or one of the doctors who
 are interested in her work.
 Miss Ladd will address the meeting
 next Tuesday, and will have much of interest to tell of the many pitiable eases she has encountered. Among the speakers will be several eminent prac- tftioners, including one two who have made the care of tuberculosis pa tients and the fighting of the great white plague practically life study.
 The Visiting Nurses association is not connected with any other organi- 1 zation, although it has of late done much good through the dispensary maintained by the Fairfield Connecti- l cut Tuberculosis Association.