The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-23
VOGEL CHILD DEAD; FAMILY
 TO SUE CITY
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 is 8 rule of the city department where I am employed that all information concerning the department or it's -em- .pIoyes must come from the head of the department. My visit to the Vogel home was not an official one I did not go. on orders of pr. Sher- man or by order from the health au- thorities. Miss Mary Stapleton, prin- cipal at the LongfeIIow school called me on the telephone and asked me to go and see the little girl. Miss StapIeton said she had been told by the father that the child was very i'll.
 1T found the child very i'll as had been reported and that she had un- dArgone an operation at St. Vincent's hospital. As far as was able to learn the health authorities had not sent the child to that institution but she had been examined in school by pr. Sherman and was given a card stating that she had enlarged tonsils and adenoids which made nasal breathing difficult and recommending that the operation be performed The slip which was given Annie carries this sentence Kindly take the child to your family physician if possible at once, presenting th1s card.
 s.The board of health assumes that in most cases the parents of a child Irecomnended for these slight opera lions will consult with their family physician at once- Those who are too l poor to pay the family physician are treated at the free clinic. found Annie VogeI apparently seriously il. Her sisters told me she had been operated on more than a week be- fore. immediately called 9Dr. Cur ran and informed him of the chiId's S condition. The parents, so far as [ was able to learn, had not procured any medical attendance for it after the operations.
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 purely on, a humanitarian impulse and not in my official capacity as a
 school nurse. had seen Annie Vo- gel only once before she went to the hospital for the second time had never heard of this case until Miss Stap1eton called my attention to it. and so far as I know no official in 1.-the health department Knew any thing about it. It is a breach Of dis cipline for any employe of the health Edepartment to talk about matters | pertaining to that department I must refer you to Dr. Stevenss''
 News of the death of Annie Voge1 caused widespread grief among her
 playmates and~ the pupils Of the Jackson school. The child was both pretty and winsome and a favorite with all in the big tenement block at 5d Cherry street. Whe ere the family live. Miss Anna c. Doyle teacher Of the child at the Jackson school was
 
 ed of her death The Voge1 girl was aF particularly bright pupil and her good deportment tractability and
 eagerness to learn, had endeared her to her teacher.
 Coroner PheIan was in New York on private business today so it could not be learned whether or not he will conduct a further investigation of the ease. The coroner went to St.
 Vincent's hospital in an effort to fet a statement from the child but found the girl unconscious and un- able to speak. pr. GarIick, the med ical examiner said this afternoon his attention had not yet been called to the case. He declinsd to comment on it
 sent the following. statement to The Farmers---
 To the Editor:
 Will you kindly state in your paper these facts regarding the child, Annie ular routine examination of children at Jackson school. Among the chil- dren examined was Annie Vogel. She was found to have enlarged tonsi1s and defective nasal breathing and ac- cordiIle- to our regular custom. re- ceived one of our notification cards to parents or guardian, which says. "A physical examination of this pu- fipil shows the need of medical atten- ton for, whatever the condition, found may be, kindly take the child to your family physician if possible A list
 of the most marked cases found is given to a nurse and she makes a : visit to the home to talk over the case with the parent. urge always when possible that they consult their
 own door further, regarding the final disposition of these cases. His de- Icision Is never in any way interrered
 with -or questioned.
 When the nurse finds parents who are not financially able to care for al child needing attention and who wish it cared for, she makes out a card for
 service at one or the other of the hos
 pita1s, but never without the expressed
 wish of the parents for her to do so. If they can pay a small fee, that is accepted, if not, they go in as free pa fients and such statement is made on
 the card One card is filled out and lleft with the parents, the other is l mailed from the health officer to the tchief of the clinic.
 | Annie Vogel never received any card
 excepting the card stating that the result of examination showed her to have enlarged tonsils and defective nasal breathing, neither had any call I been made at her home by a nursa T Nothing was known further regafd- I ing her until, in my absence from the lcity Gbecause of the serious illness of la friend), one of the department nurses was called up by the principal of tLongfelIow school and she was asked to go and see the child, whom the l principal said was very i'll. The nurse 1 went to the home and found that the child had been operated upon for the removal of enlarged tonsils and ade holds, a week before at St. Vincent's hospital.
 l Investigation disclosed that a neigh Dor whose home had been visited by a nurse previously in regard to her two children who were found to have en- larged tonsils and defective nasal breathing and needed attention This neighbor could not afford to have medical care and wished to have the T children treated and willingly con