Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-03
CHARGES VIOLATION OF
CHILD LABOR LAWS.
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lifting forces that ere now doing so
NIGH FOR our city. 1t has been
great pleasure TO me 10 have them en-
rolled a. probation officers Their
work brings them in touch with con-
dliions that demand immediate bet
telfnrilt. aud the tgveaiie court owes
mfe i them.
/ ha growth If this WORK is marked.
Where yesterday we associated the
ndfs,. only in the sick room, today we
recognize her in the field. as probation
offic er, tenement house inspector.
school nurse sanitary inspector, as a
SOCIAL worker in hospitals. dispen-
saries. factories, milk stations and
with boards of health engaged in re-
search work, AMI in the crusade
against tuberculosis. we have the
tuberculosis nurse, and in other posi-
1iofs of responsibility and trust We
sae her.
In the effort to raise the moral
standard of the community, in the
fight for Better Housing" and the eff
fort To get at the root of all evil, the
visiting nurse is a valuable helper and
a great influence in the community.
Or. Jeffrey II. Bracket, director Of
the Boston School for Social Workers.
followed in the discussion of the val
ne OF the visiting nurse to the com
munity. He said that the choice of a
nurse should fall upon Il person who
ISIS social. THE visiting nurse needs
not merely To he skilled in hospital
work. but in addition she should be
able 10 deal with the larger problems
Of family and neighborhood life" said
tho speaker DIR. Bracket argued that
in matters of material relief other
than medical the nurse should not at
tempt the work of d relief society, but
should act in cooperation with the 9th
errelief agencies in the community. He
declared that the visiting nurses work
should not be confined To paupers and
the very destitute only. but that she
was needed also by the people OF mod
crate means and should be of service
TO the entire community.
An interesting and profitable add
ton to the discussion of THE Present
Situation in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Crusade was an address BY DR.. Vim
cent Y. Bowditch of New York, who
WAS not expected to be present II the
conference. DR.. BowditCh said that he
regretted deeply to find in Maine a
strange apathy towards the tuhercu-
losis problem. He reviewed in some
detail the history of methods Of deal
ing with tuberculosis and declared
there was no excuse for the people of
the State not getting together in CO.
operative work against tuberculosis as
the work can be done at comparative
ly, small cost
DR.. Bowditch was followed by
George T. Nellbach, assistant secre-
tary of the New York state Charaties
Aid Association, who dWelt upon the
need of inaugurating statewide
campaign against tuberculosis. lie
outlined the various methods of under
taking Il state campaign and described
in detail some of the bizarre methods
used IN other states, which had had
great success in reaching the masses
and arousing them to an interest in
the nti-tuberculosis war. He pointed
out that much could also be done in
getting the workers together in con-
ferences, such as the one held, Wednes-
day. in Waterville, in connection with
the annual meeting of the Maine Anti
Tuberculosis Associa ton
A report OF pathetic case of tuber-
cplosjs in Which the father of a family
of seven. children was suffering FROM
tile early stages Of the disease. ~, that
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