St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-08-07
SANITATION IN THE HOME


Discussion at WOman's Club Meet
ing-GoOd Progress i'm Reducing
Club House Debt
The August meeting Of the Wom-
ans club, on Monday afternoon, was
very we'll attended despite the
threatening skies and all enjoyed the
opportunity of seing many summer
guests and old friends. The sec
retary's report was followed by that
of the treasurer which showed $780,
81 on hand at this time. Mrs. p. r.
reported the meeting of the State
Federation held at Montpelier in
June. Mrs. Fairbanks also reportd
what had been done by the committee
appointed few months ago to see
what could be done about having
woman probation officer. The COM
mittee ic very hopeful that something
will be done at the coming session of
the legislature.
Mrs. Robert French, chairman of
the Home Economics committee pre-
sided and presented very interest
ing program. Sanitation in the
Home was the subject of a most
practical talk by DR.. w. G.. Kicker.
He said that the object of sanitation
is to prevent diseases, contagious and
caused by living organism, known or
unknown, and there are various ways
of killing such Heat is a great germ
destroyer and for this reason sun
light is one of the best antiseptics.
Liquid soap, salt, sugar and spices
are other germ destroyers. The four
greatest transmitters of germs are
air, dust, food and flies. OF these
} air is the least dangerous but impure
} air causes mal-nutrition and for this
reason must be avoided particularly
with small children. Dust from a
: sunny street is comparatively free
from germs but undoubtedly dust
| carries a great number of microbes,
: particularly of tuberculosis which
are hardest of all to kill. In food
the chief danger is from meats but
: nowadays the chief source of con-
tagion is the outside of the meat and
as that portion is usually thorough
ly cooked the danger is less than
formerly. Flies carry an unlimited
number of germs as they frequent
: ng matter.
Miss Ida Farmer, deaconess at Ply
mouth church, Buffalo, spoke enter
tainingly of her work during three
: summers on the hospital ship in Bos-
ton harbor. The work was begun 10
years ago as an experiment, the
ship making only a few trips during
the summer, and proved such a
success that in 1898 a barge carrying
100 patients was bought. In 1906
new hospital ship for just twice as
many was purchased and that is too
small now. The present ship acco-
modates 40 permanent patients and
40 day patients, has 26 doctors,
IN he
patients are all under five years and
very largely babies under two years.
Each baby has to be accompanied by
a mother or sister and part of the
work of the day department is to try
to teach these mothers to properly
feed and care for them. Two visiting
nurses go into the homes to see that
the patients are well cared for after
they leave the hospital.
Miss Helen Gray who is a student
in Teachers College, Columbia Uni
versity, read very instructive paper
on Some Practical Applications OF
Chemistry. She spoke of the diff
ferent fuels, of what we mean by
hard" water, and of the relative
merits of the different metals for
household utensils. She said aluni-
nun should net be used for picking
and preserving and that copper is the
most satisfactory of all. She spoke
particularly of soap and showed that
there is so much adulteration in yell
low soaps that they really cost IL
cents a pound and white soaps which
are purer cost only 10 cents. There
was much that was helpful to the
housekeeper in her paper and it
was much appreciated.
\ Mrs. Willard V. circuit and Mrs.
Paul Dwight Moody were admitted to
membership at this meeting. The
calendar committee announced that
the year books are in the hands of
the printer and will be distributed
before the next meeting. Resolutions
prepared by Mrs. Sarah r. Hovey
and Mrs. Anna M. Leach on the death
of Mrs. John Chandler were read by
Mrs. Leach. Miss Woodruff, chair
man Of the committee for selling
stock for the club house, gave a most
encouraging report When they be-
gan soliciting there was a debt of
$3.50 on the club house and it is
now $1745, there having been $40
raised by selling stock and SIS col
lected on back pledges. OF the II
shares sold 81 were to members who
already owned stock and 81 to those
who had not previously subscribed. |
DR.. Wakefield spoke enthusiastically
of the club house but because of the
lateness of the hour there was no dis
cussion. On the suggestion of the
executive board the club voted to pay
$500 and be made a member of the |
Drama League of America The club !
was reminded of the sale which is |
to be held at the September meeting |
for the benefit of the district nurse.
In Municipal Court