The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-02-09
FINDS MUCH WORK TO Be DONE
Every Tenement House in the City Will
be Visited and Tenants Will be Urg-
ed to Adopt Healthful Conditions of
Living


Miss Sarah Ryder of Milwaukee, the
visiting nurse employed by the Wis
consin Anti tuberculosis association to
visit towns in the state and aid in
working out some plan for the eradlca-
ton of the white plague arrived III
Kenosha on Wednesday and this morn
ing she began her work in the city.
This work promises to be one of the
greatest works ever done by any one
in Kenosha and with the close aid of
the officials of the city schools and the
physicians of the city Miss Ryder is
expected to accomplish a great deal OF
good. The work of the nurse together
with all of her expenses is given to the
city by the state committee in recog-
milton of the work done by the child
rem of the city schools in the sale of
Christmas seals during the recent cru
SADIE. Miss Ryder is a clever woman
and entirely familiar with the great
work that she is doing. Her methods
of work are similar to those outlined
by the Russell Sage commission and she
plunged into the work in Kenosha this
morning. She made her first start in
the Italian districts of the city and
plans to spend much time during the
month in the portions of the city where
large crowds Of alien citizens are hous-
ed. If possible she will make a visit
to every tenement house in the city.
She is preparing records, which will
show the number of people living in
these houses, the conditions under which
these people live and the number of
them who are suffering from consump
ton. Working with Mrs. Mary D.
Bradford, superintendent of the schools
Miss Ryder hopes to be able to show
the number Of children being housed
in these places and if possible she will
seek to bring to these children better
conditions. Miss Ryder is fully in
touch with the fight against tuberculo-
sis and she Is going to teach the child
rem and preach to their parents along
these lines. A graduate nurse of long
experience she will bring to the people
in the congested districts some idea of
how they should live and her reports
will give basis for further action by
the health department. of the city. The
health department, the police depart
ment and every other official depart
ment of the city is expected to give
her every possible aid.
Kenosha has the honor of being the
first city, in Wisconsin in which this
work has been started and the Wiscon-
sin association in the fight against tu-
berculosis is watching the experiment
here with great deal of interest.
With the starting of the work of
Miss Ryder the school officials are look
ing for site for the opening of the
proposed out door school. The equip
ment for the school including an equip
ment for the kitchen and wraps for
the teacher and children will arrive in
Kenosha within few days and already
thirty children, nearly all of them pre-
disposed to tubercular troubles have
been found to enter the school. It is
expected that Miss Ryder will bring
to light many other children who are
in need of out door teaching.
The school board will undoubtedly
aid in securing a location for the pro-
posed school and it is hoped that it
will be opened before the end of the
present month. Of course it will be
necessary to provide teacher TO have
charge of the work.
Many of the parents of weak and
aenemic children in the city have al
ready applied to the superintendent to
find place for their children in the
new school.