The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-01-12
COMMUNITY MEETING FOR
4 COMMUNITY NURSE

4 COnMCAII1 Sl RSE !
About two dozen good and earnest i
women, and about a half dozen men, !
met in the court house Wednesday |!
afternoon in response to a call TO. /
d community meeting to consider the
question OF continuing a community |
nurse for this community. DR.. Crom-
er says the people do not read the
papers and, therefore, no one knew
that the meeting was>to be aeld, and
for that reason there were so few
present. Ii that be true, then Hh"
newspaper. But We are inclined
to think that the doctor is mistaken,
or We thunderstorm him. The trou-
ble is the people real, and the people
forget, except those things they want
to remember. and those things are
the things that they think will beneti:
them directly and Immediately.
Anyhow these two and half dozen
met and they talked and then they
appointed a committee to have the
whole thing in charge. Now, the
trouble may be that this committee
| may forget that it was appointed and
forgot to act. We hope not.
Mrs. j. ~ Mclaughlin as president
of the Bachelor Maids presided at the
| meeting, and she gave plain
statement of the work during the
mast eighteen months. But the Wo-
men were tired carrying the load,
| and it is not right that few faith
full women should carry it. More OF
the men should have been present a.
this meeting, and they should take
! more interest in it. They should
remember that this is an age when
| everything is to be regulated. and all
the germs are to be killed. and the
children are to be inspected for de-
fectS and made to grow up right and
proper, and the roor are to be taken
| care Of. even if it is against the law
| for poor man without coat To
ask some one to give him coat. and
| if he does so ask he is to occupy cell
No. l and rides there in an automo-
! bile. That is the law and the law
must be enforced I'VE are moving
forward, and we are taking care OF
the people who will not or cannot
take care of themselves.
But to the meeting. Mayor Wright
was called on and he spoke of the
! Importance of community nurse, but
! he said he did not know what to Of
| for, because he was not in possession
of facts in regard to the operations
during the past year, or what the eX-
perinnce of the ladies had been in the
experiment which had been made.
Then Mrs. Mclaughlin related the
details of the work. A letter was read
from Mr.. Summer of the Mollohon
mill in which it was stated the good
work that the nurse did in his mill
village and he hoped that the WoTE
might be continued.
Mr.. J. NJ. Kinard spoke of the good
of such work and said that he was
willing to cooperate and he felt that
the city board of health would DO
what it could to help the work. DR..
j. P. Kinard thought maybe there
might be some way to have the nurse
IN some manner represeD 'ative OF
the board of health. He said if the
school were in position it would be
glad to have department which
could employ such person. MT.
iMcSwain said that the school board
had no funds, but that he would glad
ly. take back to the school board any
suggestion that might be made.
DR.. Cromer then made a most ex-
cellent talk on what the State and
the Christian people of this Christian
State were not doing to take care of
the unfortunates in the jails and aims
houses and reformatories. And he
told some very healthy truths which
It would be we'll if more people could
have heard.
Then there was talk Of spread OF
disease by the washerwomen, and the
need of an inspector along that line.
The outcome of the meeting was the
appointment of committee of five
to take the whole matter in charge |
and do what to them may seem best
to be done. That committee is: John !
NJ. Kinard. chairman; Geo. NJ. Sum-
mer, Mrs. L. w. Floyd, Miss Carolyn
Cromer, Mrs. ]. \. Mclaughlin. They
are to devise ways and means and
have charge OF the whole business. ,
and a big job they have.
We have named all the men pres !
ent except Editor Wallace and the
writer and We did not make any !
speeches. All the rest of them did. |
That is, Mr.. Wallace had not spoken
when We left, as We had to leave |
before the meeting closed.
A nurse is a good thing and there |
should be two, as DR.. Cromer said. |
one for the white people and one for !
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