The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-07
SERVICES MUCH IN DEMAND
With War In Europe and Urgent De-
mands Ia This Country Call to Train
ing School a virile One. Says Head
Of Kenosha Health Department.

With view Of enlisting a lot Of
TKenosha girls into the training schools
of the Kenosha Hospital and other
ssimilar institutions, DR.. Herbert l..
Wright, commissioner of public health
Fan Kenosha, has issued a call to young
women to adopt nursing as profess
tsion. 1t is expected that the call
Twill be responded to with increased
Registration in the Kenosha school.
Certainly there-never was time in
the history of this country when better
land more varied possibilities were Of
fered for a trained nurse, ~ said Dr.
Wright, "and we wonder sometimes
hwhy it is that more of our young
gwomen do not choose a professional
rather than commercial life. Possibly
Ethey have not thought of or had pointed
tout to them the many advantages one
khas in being trained along this line,
(which simply means educated, educated
I'm what? First Of all she has better
knowledge OF her own physique and it's
needs, in other words, better lxnowl-
edge of how to live, to say nothing of
the great good she can do for suffering
humanity, and certainly no mother
who is a trained nurse has ever re-
GREETED the time and effort spent in
securing this valuable knowledge.
which has given her a very decided
advantage over other mothers who do
not possess this expert knowledge, not
only for The benefit of her own house.
hold, but the great satisfaction gained
from her professional career. Unques-
tlonably there is going to be dearth
or nurses as well as of physicians not
only In this country, but many others
and this shortage will be more or less
in proportion to the length of time this
the most destructive of all wars lasts
and how long this will be no man or
set of men can tell.
1T is Che opinion of the writer that
more Of Us are going to take hand
IN this war than are now contemplate
ing doing so, not necessarily in the
trenches but back of the firing line.
possibly far back where the blind and
crippled soldiers, and not only soldiers
but our own brothers and sons
will finally come back for our care and
many skilled fingers will be REQUIRED
to do this noble and very necessary
work. 1t is not the war alone that is
constantly calling for more nurses. the
very rapid growth of health work in
addition 20 the large number of new
Hospitals of all kinds which are being
erected all ever the country for the
treatment Of tuberculosis and all kinds
of diseases which work is increasing
as rapidly as the people are becoming
educated to the fact that they are a
necessity and especially isolation hos
pitfalls for the care of contagious dis
eases, where not only nurses but
specially trained nurses are required.
not only those who do know how to
care for patient who has contagi-
GUS disease, but who knows how to take
care Of child who has apparently or
at least partially recovered from the
disease, especially such diseases as in
fantile paralysis, in which cases so
many children need the constant care
of q nurse for many months if it is ev-
err to become anything like normal
human being again.
AS our cities become more denselv
populated the easier it is for contagion
to spread and the greater the number
of workers required to properly handle
it, and the people in general are be-
coming more enlightened on the sub
ject Of disease prevention, and we pre-
dict that the time is not far distant
when the taxpayer will be more inter
ested in disease prevention and will be
more willing to have public funds ex-
pended along these lines than any other
when he fully realizes how much bet
ter, safer and cheaper it is to prevent
disease than it is to cure it. The
young women of Kenosha have right
here in their home city training school
for nurses, which no doubt, could find
room for a reasonable number Of stu
dents at any time, in addition to their
regular class. -