The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-21
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were designated as requiring sin1i- lar treatment. Cards were given the children, bearing notification that they needed medical attention. Mrs. Louis Sanger, occupying the floor
 above the Vogels, read the cards, 1 translated them. and having already ignored a similar card for a child of her own-whom she believed to be in l good health-sIe did not urge the ae- ceptance of the suggestions the cards. embodied.
 But Miss. Bessie Bartholomew, a
 school nurse, following up the cases selected by Dr. Sherman, called at the homes, and gave to the children cards admitting them to a free clinic at St. Vincent's. Mrs. Lukasievtcz was preparing her two children for the | trip to the hospital, on Wednesday morning, Jan. 6, when an older sister l of Annie Voge1, Frances, just above
 school age, and working in the War ner Bros. plant, entered the Iiuka- sievicz home. She hurried to her dressed, as her mother believed, for party to be given to the school chill dren at the home of Miss Anna c. Doyle, 1496 Fairfield avenue. Miss Doyle is teacher in Annie's room. Not until the next Monday, when the anx- ious parents took up a diligent inquiry l to ascertain who was responsible for the little girls troubles, did Miss Doyle hear of the tfparty."
 In reality the party was a trip to the free clinic at the hospital The iLukasievicz children were accompan- jed by their mother, who took along the two Voge1 children.
 The operation on Annie was so ex- l tensive that it was decided that she should remain over night. Frances, returning from the hospital, did not 1 go directly home, but stopped at married sisters home, and her belat- ed homecoming about 10 p. n-, brought to the parents the first news i of the younger sisters whereabouts l The child, accompanied, by the sister Frances, returned home on Thursday. 1 Another inmate of the Vogel home is Thomas Corso, who married an old CT, sister, of the little girl He is
 cabaret singer. He returned home in l the early morning hours, Friday, to 1 find the child tossing restless1y, appa- rently in delirium.
 Il The chiId's condition steadily grew 1worse On Monday Corso and MT. l VogeI visited the Jackson school and demanded from Miss Doyle an expla-
 nation of the party incident. Alarm ed at their statement of the child s T illness Miss Doyle at once reported the matter to Miss Stapleton, the prin- lcipa1, who in turn sought to locate
 Dr. Sherman. The latter was report
 ed by the health office to be out of l town. the allGEndI1NOs 4AASo hoAeS~ pleton sought Miss Bartholomew also
 Dr. Steinberger, whose visit to the Voge1 home was followed by a nasty summons for Dr. P. J. Cl1rrans a spe-
 cialist in throat troubles. Dr. Curran
 visited the home, and counseled im- 't mediate removal of the child& to St.
 Vincent's hospital, where she now re- mains.
 At the hospital it is stated that the
 presence of the mother of the Luka-
 .s1 1.0l IS "a n fs- l tion of the Voge1 girls elders for the operation.
 Responsible persons state that the
 board of health has made no proVls- lion for the following these opera 1 tions and that it is not remarkable that the child's condition should have
 progressed to a dangerous stage oe- fore any alarm was felt.
 The attitude of the board of eduea- ltion always has been to recognize the lboard of health and to give way to that board. Dr. Charles w Deane,
 superintendent of schools, always mas
 impressed on the teachers under his
 supervision, that when the health au-
 thorfties stepped in it was up to the school authorities to step out.
 Teachers in school where the pupils
 are largely of foreign percentage ind that such parents place utmost conf
 dence in their judgment on matters cOnSSSTI11lS IAI0 So lrnakes any recommendation concern ing the child it is almost invariably carried out, but the teachers also com
 plain that the increasing number of health regulations which the health board is establishing is weakening this confidence and influence hereto fore existing between parents and teachers.
 Dr. sherman said she was aware of the illness of the Vogel girl through having heard it mentioned by the nurses bout. did. not specifically re- member the initial examination in her case. She explained that with the number of children examined it is diff
 hcult to remember each specific case.
 1 Both the general statutes of the