The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-27

Then after the patient has been ex- .amined at the dispensary, the visit ing nurse should visit his home; in- yestigate the conditions and ascertain whether the pIlysician's advice has been followed The nurse should aI- so give the result of her investigation in a complete report. which should be signed by the dispensary physician and filed for record in the office. There must be the most friendly co-opera- ton between thee medical fraternity, the health organizations and the char itab1e societies.
 VISITING NURSES NEEDED.
 The key to the whole matter lies in the home. It is the greatest source of infection; ana ife character deter mines the duration of the disease Therefore,. it is8not A private affair, but one that conSerns every one of us. Only a nurse trained in tllber- cIIar work can attend to this vital and important natter
 aoelteye that more help should be given the Visiting Nurses associatton ihy the munuieipa1 authoritfess ana perhaps by the state.
 There Is stiiI another direction in which our fight against tubercufoSfs is weak Through the deyeaopn1e leg1slaticn. and with kts general rlse in the stAndard Of comfort ana cleAr- Illness, the per capita death rate in
 pulmonary cases is being slowly ana surely lowered. In this country in the last fifty years. 1t is estimated to have fallen fifty per cent while ac- scording to the report of the Connecfi- cut Board .of Health in volume thirty i've of Vital Statistics, the mortality from tuberculosis from the years 18ss-19i2 has been reduced forty seven per cent.
 1t ia npteworthy. however that tsa- bercuIosis of bones and Joints which Is especially liable to occur h young children, has actually increased
 Connecticut has not yet provided the proper sanatOriA for these cases of Glanduiar and Surgical Iubercu- 1osis. It has been established that the best place for ths treatment Of this form Of ktfe dtseases IS the seash ore, with it's sandy beach. tapping waves Beaches exist in Eonnecticut, and 1t remains for ti1e people of the state through it's representatives to place a sanatoriuru theres
 Tn other places, countries or states, where these seaside Hanatoria have been established, the results have been so encouraging that there can be no doubt of their success in this form of treatment.
 PARENTS DIsPROvE sANATORxA.
 According to thS report of the Con- necticut Tubercu1csis ComuIestonera for 1S10-191zs ssxnost parents or other friends of children afElicted with these
 milder. but still dfshguring and srfp- plying forms of tuberculosis object to letting the little sufferers go to san. atoria where they would be eurround-
 ed with patients suffering from the contagious pu1nonafy form
 Further, if he could get the organ
 ized women of the state to listen with
 us and with the physicians of the state
 to the piteous cry of the children for
 2 seaside sanatoriuTn. we would soon
 have behind us an irresistfb1e force Of
 public opfnfon, and within 8 year on
 some short stretch of her shining ocean beach, Connecticut would be Dproudly housing and curing her white
 faced, twisted and limpfnE little ones.'s
 The skeptical are referred to the
 single resolution adopted by the Sur
 g1caI Section of the 1912 InternationaI
 Tu bercu1osis Congress. and pnblished in the SeptemDer number Of ssTu-
 bercuIosis' of Berlin This resoIu-
 tion is in part as follows Tn view
 of the need there is of treating sur-
 gicaI tuberculosis in special sanatoria
 and in view of the success of the sea- side treatment Of surgical tuberculosis
 this congress solemly resolves that there should be provided for these cases, particularly for surgical tuber-
 culosis in children, special sanatoria on the seacoast, and that the buftd- fng of these seaside sanatoria should be done on as large scale as pos sibIe, and with aas little delay as pos sibie.'
 FLEA FOR SEASIDE STATIONS. This is an age of great achievement The Panama Canal the greatest en- gineering triumph Of the human, race. is practically completed, and this could never have been achieved but for the work of sanitation in the ca nal zone which has transformed one the earth into q health resort. Malaria and yellow fever have been con quered; we believe that tuberculosis can be conquered, and in Connecticut we have begun this great work, Every person in this audienceg every person in the state, should be enlist ed in this warfare. You may be fighting to save the life of your near est and dearest Who can tell when and where this dreadful scourge may make it's appearances? We call es- socially on the women of ttis- state to come forward as they did in the days of the Civil War. for we are now engaged in 2 war which is indeed greater.
 E It is great pleasure to acknopvI- edge the receipt of many presents of money and clothing from the philar- thropic men and women of this state consisting of warm 1ndercIothing. hoods to protect the head during the cold nights. warm dressing gowns and bed slippers, and 1t would have brought a throb Of pleasure to the heart of any one of this audience to have seen the happiness of the pat | tents in the different sanatoria, each of whom received Christmas pres- ent and had some elaboration of menu l only possible because of such gener- osity
 WONdAN,S AID NEEDED. But referring again to the comn1is- sioner's report for 1912, stthe women of the state have not enlisted in suf- fcient numbers. Except for the Wis iting Nurses associations and a few so-