Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-01-17
NURSES SETTLEMENT
HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING
REPORTS show Enlarged Charitable
Work Extending Ia Every Part Of
lity and TO Al Nnccs.

Reports frnm all three branches Of
the Nurses settlement read at tho an
nual meeting held yesterday artcr,to,-I
81 IL" headquarters 81 tic Instructive
Visiting Nurses Association. 293 South
cherry street. showed useful service
rendered and encouraging progress
made III 1916. Miss Nnnni" j. Minor.
III" superintendent. reported foi the
instructive Visiting Nurses .tsSocia =
;i"u: Miss Elizabeth Preston Cooke. tho
president OF the Girls Auxiliary, sub
united - written report for that ur-
@"niZatiou. and Mrs Mary W. Schn"i .
h'r reported for the Social Workers.
Mrs W W. Norton. president Of tho
Nurses settlement. presided at tho
meeting.
''"caus" "t the change Of tho close Of
th'- fiscal year of the Visiting Nurs"s'
Association from Janu@ry 81 10 be
'"mh"r ~. tic report "f that orgnniza-
''h Us Tor only eleven months. In that
b"rI"d. IN" nurse" made 3>.TcS visits To
'.2'' patients. AZ increase over last
Nrtr al '.ois visits ana co. patients.
Nor" Than half OF tho patients wcro
"hltc Americans. about a third were
h'ef""S iuh those remaining wcr" for
"lSnrrs. Pneumonia ard tuberculosis
"ci" IA" diseases mos; frequently
nurScd.
The stan "f The Instructive Visiting
nurses Association in 1916 ntnhcrcd
t""GtN-i"". Including fly. nurses who
cam. from distance TO yet expert
"hco and twc!v" pupil nurses frur,
Johnston Wills and Iiyrcja Hospitals
IW" nurses were added during tho year,
one 10 shar" the work i'm South Rich
mond and r"lorod nurse supported by
~" social Workers Of tho Nurses Set
element with tho funds raised by thcm
from tho sal. ~ Rod Cross Christmas
seals " yea a.c.
Mrs. SCHNEIDER. Tor ihc Social Work =
crs. rcr"itcd thirty -fou,. clubs conduct
." by iwcnty-nine leaders in 1916. in
which Tho inomh"rsl,iu consisted or isa
boys and -: girls Win the co-opcra =
ton uf the city department. nr play
grounds tn" Social Workers conduct
recreation hall nj 1920 Wcs; CLAY
street Robert w Miles. Jr.. Miss
Keith Whit" :nd Miss Bessie White
head supervise In" play in this center.
community dance for adults is held
At the hall every SATURDAY night The
hal! Mas opened last March AMI was
furnished with gymnasium apparatus,
b. :" donation Of Miss Mani" Bau.h .
man.
Tho social workers maintain q free
library Of 800 volumes OF chiidrcn's lit
cratur'. which "as started by tho Girls
AuNiliar. Thvr" has been II" regular
Librarian for tho past year but Miss
RUBY Dart, un- OF tho board Of man
ayers. Viii h" IN charge uf that work
hereafter.
The Girls Auxiliary gave Christ
mas tree I" thirty little children a, Full
ton Day Nursery On December -
Clothing. vas Supplied TO fourteen chil.
lrcu wlu were Ia need and q stock
Ing nll"i With candy. fruit. nuts and
TOYS Was given to each.
ON account Of the iufanttlc paraly-
SIS scare last summer. Camp Harrison
the camp for children supported by the
GIRLS Auxiliary in Clarke County had
10 he closed six weeks after II opened
r'urty iittlo girls Were given q vacation
There. but most of tho boys had 80 bc
left out. Tin" camp this summer vii
pruhahlS be located near Chariot .e%-
vic.