The Washington times., 1914-10-14
Federation Board Plans
Sanitary Reform Campaign
Public Health Committee OF
Women's Clubs Will Lay
Stress on Work Among
School Children.

Do YOU knoW phether You
laundry is being done under sani
tary conditionss
Do you kneW whether your mill
is produced from animals fire.
from disease, and is conveyed II
you by cleaHly Methods
Do you knoW whether your chill
is being exposed to disease whIt
at SCHOOL,
Naturally you cannot always ge
at the bottom of all these things
1t requires constant matching. Tha
is the sort of matching the public
health committee of the Distric
Federation of WomeH's Clubs i.
doing for you. The scope of this
work is outlined in this article.
Work Among Children.
An aggressive campaign in hygiene
and sanitary reforms for Washing
ton Is planned by the public health
committee Of the District Federation
of Womens Clubs for the coming
winter.
Special stress will be laid on work
among school children, including the
wider opportunities offered by the
movement for a Use Of schools as
social centers, and by the appoint
ment of school nurses.
The campaign for pure milk will
be waged with renewed vigor, and
a rigorous program of work to bet
ter housing conditions will be out
lined. Attention will be paid to the
living conditions of those servants
and domestics who enter homes of
well-to-do citizens of the city, and
of the sanitation of homes to which
laundry is sent.
Much of this effort will doyetal
into the effective work the public
health committee already has done
under the leadership of DR.. Isabel
H. Lamb. Mrs. Ellis Logan. presl-
dent of the federation. has reap
bI' Ic
for the coming year has not yet
been formally named, but among
those who VIII be asked to aid III
its work are DR.. Louise Taylor
Jones. DR.. Eleanor G. Folkmar. DR..
Ada Thomas. DR.. Clara MacNorton
and DR.. Centennella Smith.
More Nurses Needed.
The work of the committee is sup
plemented by such efforts as the is
suance of the milk dealers bulletins
by the Twentieth Century Club, and
by the domestics' reference work of
the Housekeepers' Alliance. 1t also
has the cooperation of the national
public health committee Of the gen.
eral federation, and more recently of
the Children's Bureau Of the Depart
ment Of Labor. Miss Julia Lathrop,
head of that bureau, has given valu-
able assistance and encouragement
to the committees efforts
The committee welcomes the ap-
pointment OF two white and one COL
ored nurse for the schools as
chance to demonstrate the utility of
the school nurse idea. To be effec-
tive, many more nurses are needed.
This number Of nurses is as help
less in the face Of the demands upon
them as are the two dentists, one
white and one colored. appointed as
school inspectors" said DR.. Lamb.
"A few years ago we had twelve
medical inspectors in schools. That
number was far too small for ade-
quate service. The situation scarcely
was relieved when two of these
twelve were made dental inspectors.
1t is farcical to expect one inspector
to exercise any sort Of care Of the
teeth Of all the white school chill
dren in the District"
The committees propesd inquiry
into housing conditions opens a wide
field of usefulness. 1t is believed