Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-01

nurses of the visiting. nurse associa- tion of New Haven, was next intro duced by Mayor Murphy. who express ed his appreciation of what Miss Cran- daH had said.
 Miss Hills spoke of the nurse her. self and said that there was much greater incentive to fight for a life in a poor family than in the family of the well-to-do, where everything is provided. You can be sure that the public visiting nurse is in the work because she is interested in 1t. They can teach the mothers much for the health of the family.
 Families are appreciative, indeed, said Miss Hills, for the cheer and sun shine that is brought into the homes by the district nurse. She also advo- fcated a fee system for she said none of the people want to have it said that they have the charity nurse. The chairman of the nurses committee is very important member, said Miss Hills, and needs to- be a very wise woman, and the members of the com mittee can also be a. great help by their friendliness to the nurse who needs human sympathy and human in- terest and inspiration in the friend ship of those who are not her pa- tients.
 There are something over 70 public nurses sSOIlHCGlACQlr factory. school and community nurses. The public health nurses work only under the directions of a doctor and 1t is essential for a family to have a doctor if they are to have a nurse.
 pr. Lyman Endorses Movement.
 Dr. David R. Lyman of the Gaylord Farm sanatorium at Wallingford, and a member of the state tuberculosis commission of Connecticut, was intro duced by Mayor Murphy as the next speaker.
 nursing was the most valuable thing we have for the treatment of the tu- berculosis problem.
 There is no agency; equal to the visiting nurse for the discovery of tuberculosis cases She finds on an ported by the doctors. In his experi- ence in sanatoria work he said that fully one-half of the early curable cases are found by the visiting nursn
 The second value of the nurse is to persuade patients to go to the san atorium to take. treatment. and third great value in the follow-up work, in, keeping tabs on people when thFy get back home. This is of enormous value for this with the sanatorium work is what decides whether the com munity is getting its value in money expended. Through the work of the visiting nurse, Dr. Lyman said, he con- sidered the life of the patients was about double.
 The fourth value of the visiting nurse was in the work on the homes and the fifth value is the teaching they give for the protecting of the family and prevention in the homes. Sixth she interests the public in the prob lem and teaches them through human documents.
 He concluded by stating that he agreed with Miss Crandall that this visiting nurse was thing to be taken up by private philanthropy or organ ization until 1t is demonstrated that community health is a community as- set and should be a matter for com munity obligation. The district nurse has a great value, too, said Dr. Ly- man, in our. study of the tuberculosis problem, which we really know very little aboVt with all our study of it The only agency we have to rely on is fortunately the strongest in the pub lie and district visiting nurse.
 He congratulated the city that it was about to have a visiting nurse and he predicted that this was ster which all Connecticut cities would have