The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-01-23

LII. POrter Keeps cnlIu away from
school until ten days after fumiga-
tion as an extra precautionary meas
ure. To keep the schools and the
public in health means eternal Wig
lance" The great thing to fight is
the real ignorance of the large ma
jority of the parents or guardians
with regard to the simpler laws of
healti., and the care of their chill
dren when sick. The nurse is con-
stantly teaching, as she goes about,
and now it is beginning to show
The position of nurse needs great di-,
plomacy, and only woman especially
fitted, systematic and who loves chill
dren, can fill the place we'll The
average pay of a good nurse is sew
enty-five dollars month, and poor
nurse is useless.
This thorough medical inspection is
the most efficient way TO prevent
epidemics, Every child has a gem
eral, all-over physical examination
once a year, when full written records
are kept
In Orange there is no inspection of
the parochial schools. DR.. Porter
feels that this neglected part--and it
is large part-may undo all the
good work that the inspected part ac-
complishes.
Another leakage so to speak, is
the Sunday schools. 1t is hard to
make the parents appreciate how
wrong it is to send a child, who is
forbidden to attend school because
of illness, to Suitday school. For this
reason the Sunday schools should be
inspected.
Then again, the libraries of Orange
are notified of families where there
is contagious illness, so that no
books from the infected house may
be returned to spread the disease
as books can so easily do.
Smallpox used to be one of our
most dread Diseases" said DIR. Por-
ter, ''but now that vaccination is so
easy and safe, the disease has be-
come far less prevalent tuberculosis
that very dreadful scourge, is with
us all the time, and one of the best
ways to fight it is the education of
the people as to its prevention and
treatment. With an isolation hospital
I in, oh t..
needed-and the people using them
as they should, the disease should
be well controlled"
| Orange has its open-air camp, where
DR.. Porter sends children who have
any signs OF tubercular trouble. In
almost every case ths child is cured,
tuberculosis" nurse helps very me-. h
in this campaign.
Orange also has a preventive school
established by DR.. Porter, fresh-air
school, which is room of many win
dows which stand open all the time.
The children are very warmly wrap
|
teacher, who needs special qualities
for this position, are provided by the
board of education. Only eighteen
children are allowed here at one time
and they are not really sick children.
They are anaemic, under-nourished
little ones, who are here to be built
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a good cook there, who serves three
meals a day, of simple, nourishing
J food. The expenses are betrayed by
private funds, and the cost, exclus-
i've of service is eleven cents a day
per child.
| DR.. Porter urges better ventilation
in the class-rooms. During the morn
ing recess all the windows in the
class-rooms should be opened, this
is not too much. The doctor says
i she has had great difficulty in getting
teachers TO believe in this necessity
! for more air.
She also hopes that the time will
come, and soon, when women shall
help to plan the new school buildings.
and gave instances. of mistakes made
in some new schools, where women
would have planned more correctly.
OF course the plumbing in every
school needs inspection and there
st be a suitable room put aside,
in each building, for medical in
spection aroom Every school needs
one or more bathtubs, and new
school to be entirely up-to-date and
comprehensive should have a swim
ming tank and showers in the base
ment. In Orange the nurse has
charge of the baths and teaches the
children habits of cleanliness.
Dr. Porter is urging the use Of the
schools at night for wholesome en-
tertainments. AS they are public
property why should they not be
used for the benefit Of the people2
At the close Of DR.. Porter's address
the necessity and advisability OF a
crfew law was discussed, hut no
decision was reached.
Cannot Retire Minister.