Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-01-27
THE COLORED RACE
AND THEIR CARE
Discussed by Miss Ann Doyle
Visiting Local Nurse.
CHARITY WORKERS BUSY DAY.
Miss Rebecca Coale, Of Baltimore Tells
Of Her Duties in Large Factory.

of the Conference of Charities and Cor
rection With DR.. George Walker, the
chairman of the Statewide Vice Com
mission, at the morning session. and
other well-known speakers at the
afternoon sessions. the members Of the
Congress of Charities and Corrections
spent a very busy day.
Two sectional meetings were held
yesterday afternoon, one in the old
Senate Chamber, and the other in the
retiring room of the chamber DR.. c.
Hampson Jones presided over the
health committee meeting, and ad-
dresses were delivered by Miss Ann
Doyle. instructive visiting nurse of
this city; Miss Rebecca NJ Goals. in
dustrial nurse of the American Can
Company, of Baltimore, and Miss Mel
lie Casey, instructive visiting nurse Of
Hagerstown
The committee on charity and the
budget system was presided over by
Dr. j. II. Mason Knox, Jr.. and the
speakers were Mrs A f. Upham. SUI
perintendent of the Baltimore Orphan
Asylum; DIR. r. w. Wright, superin-
tendent of the Maryland General Hos
pital, Baltimore. and William H. Dav-
export. secretary of the Board of State
Aid and Charities.
Miss Coale spoke on Industrial
Nursing. She told how she met many
obstacles at firset, but how later the
scope of her work widened and it was
seen by all interested how the work
was progressing.
"One of the innovations we intro
duced was that of selling healthy
lunches to the employees of the fac
tory. The lunch-room is well-equip-
ped and besides this, there is a large
room with steel lockers, where the en-
ployes put their clothes The toilets
and Mushrooms are also big factor
and the floors and walls are tiled and
they are kept sanitary.
The work was organized i'm July.
1914, as part of the safety depart
ment, and at first only frst-aid cases
were treated Before that, when an
employee was injured, no matter how
trivial, he was Immediately sent to a
hospital by the foreman of the de-
partment Later we were given sur
gical-room, with a physician, and all
emergency cases are treated at the
factory now.
THE executives Of the company
have shown that they are interested
in the movement and they are CO.
operating with us in every possible
way. No matter what is asked for in
the way of equipment, they furnish
it quickly. Records are kept of all
accidents and the medical treatment
supplied and time lost by the patient"
The feature of the afternoon session
was a paper by Miss Ann Doyle the
local visiting nurse. Miss DOYLE said
I'VE are confronted with two dis
tinct tyRes of negroes, firstly. the one
genteel. self-supporting, eager for ed
ucation and occupation. from which
class we derive the colored doctor law
yer. teacher and letter carrier. A
type found in the cities but rarely
known in rural sections.
1T is we'll established fact that
the nurse must adapt herself to the
individuality of the patient The alien
has distinct problems from the native
the Jew has special problems from
the gentle. the negro from the white,
and the rural districts from urban
communities.
AS the negro ordinarily differs
from the white in being more shift
less, more irresponsible. more ignor-
ant and improvident, so the rural
negro is being still more shiftless,
more irresponsible, still more ignorant
and improvident In other words. the
country negro inherits all the vices of
his city brother without the advanta-
ges the urban negro enjoys from more
intimate contact with whites and the
greater efforts made in cities to amel-
iorate his conditions.
The rural community makes but
scant effort TO provide education for
the negro. The dingiest. insanitary
buildings widely scattered and badly
{ equipped with an Indifferent and in
efficient teaching force. and with lit
tie effort to compel attendance. II
can be easily seen that with an in
herited undeveloped mentality. with
unattractive surroundings. the hard
ship of getting to and from school
and the common lack OF supervision as
TO attendance, why so many rural
! negroes remain illiterate"
During the discussion which follow
ed the address, it was proposed that
some legislation might be passed.
whereby the colored tubercuIar per-
sons might be taken care of. At the
present time. it was pointed out, there
is no state institution which cares for
negroes.
Miss Casey told of her work in the
vicinity of Hagerstown and what had
been accomplished. In introducing her
DR.. Jones told how highly she was
thought of in that section, and remark
ed "She is not the Mayor. but she has
almost as much mower