Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-18
FAMOUS MEDICAL SOCIAL
SERVICE WORKER COMING
Miss Ida Nj. Cannon, of Mas,achs
sets, Will Attend Professional
Conference Here This Week.
DEPARTURE in MEDICAL woR,
Charity Patients Treated In Publ
Institutions Followed to Thei
Homes and Further Aid Rendered
Other Well-Known Speakers.

Tho Medical College OF Virginia, CO
operating With various other cduca
tional institutions. will have as IL
guests at the professional conference
to be held in Richmond. February 22-2:
Miss Ida NJ. Cannon. chief of socia
service OF the Massachusetts Genera
| Hospital
| A part OF tho Saturday morning scs
sion OF tho conference will be devote
TO tho discussion OF medicine an.
medical social service. DR.. Stuart Nc
Guirc, OF Richmond, will be one Of tn
speakers, and DR.. Esther Lovejoy. on
or the secretaries Of tho Women.s Hos
pital Association, will speak on medI
elmo az profession for women. bring
Ing In tho work OF women physicians a
| the front
The subject OF dentistry will be pr.l
scented by Dr. j. A. c. Hogan. pharm4
acy by Il. l.. Brands. secretary OF tn
| Virginia State Board OF Pharmacy. D,|
j. Allison Hodges Will introduce Mi.]
Cannon.
Tho purpose OF tho professional conl
or young women in the various prc
fessions. and one OF the most lmportan
hours Will be that devoted to medicin
and medical social service.
! SOCIAL WORKERS. DUTY
TO FOLLOW UP CHARITY CASE
The good that has been accomplishe
through the dispensary established 4
connection with the Medical College II
. generally known throughout tho cit,
/ After the doctors and student. hay
donc all possible for tho comfort Of
/ the charity patients who come to then
II is then tho task OF tho social work
or, recently added to the staff of tn
dispcnsary. to follow tho patients In,
! their homes. Medical social service hay
therefore. been started at the McdicsI
+. College.
4 We are hoping through tho comm 4
/ OF Miss Cannon" said DR.. e. C. III
Miller. OF the faculty OF tho college. ct
increase interest In medical specisi
service and. in addition. to learn niue
about the workings OF tho bicrc,'
social center In the country. In corJ
nection with DR.. Cabot, OF tho Massa|
! chusettS General Hospital. Miss Cannot
7 has inauguratcd a wonderful work am
! 1t will be OF the greatest amount
I educational value TO Richmond TO hea}
her address,"
MISS CANNON HAS HAD
VARIED EXPERIENCE
| Miss Cannon's hospital training wa
taken in the big county and city hos
! p!tal. 81. I'aul. Minnesota, her child
hood home. After graduation she ha
charge OF the hospital at the Mlnnesoty
! Schoo! for tho Feeble Minded Ed
several years following she was y!si1l
Ing nurse for the Associated Charitiej
In st. Paul. Later Niiss Cannon tool
the training at the Boston school I'd
social workers. Il was In 1907 ,h;i
She took charge OF the department, a
medical social service az the Massaj
chnsetts GtGeraI Hospital
The development O. tho work is "a 4
70 have been phenomenal. BeginninI
with one paid worker, tho department
has extended until Miss Cannon is child
OF soc!a! service OF three departing nj
the out-patient, the work In the ward
and the affiliated eye and ear inflrmar-l
There arc now twenty cisht paid world
ers and about nfty volunteers. TIL
Medical College feels that IL has beey
very fortunate In being able 10 securi
not only woman from the Massacht]
sets General Hospital. but the woma
who In very real sense created Thu
work OF medical social service. which
Is now sprcadin. SO rapidly all oyei
tho country.
DIR. ESTHER LovEJoY. BACK
FROM FRANCE, TO SPEAi)
Much Interest will be aroused in th{
coming 10 Richmond OF Dr.. Esthei
Lovcjoy who has just returned to thP
+ states after active service In Franc
DR.. Lovejoy Is member OF the hos
pital committee OF the Medical Wa
mems National Association. which Wa
formed for the purpose Of getting I'd
sethcr american women's hospitsf
units. II Will be remembered that 4
J the time that America entered the VIZ
the Medical Women's National Assc
citation Vas organized as patriots
body under the other permanent med |
cal organizations. It represents COG
women doctors. DR.. Lovejoy Is ono q
Tho women who volunteered at once fol
service across the waters, and for manH
months has done valiant work near TIL
battle front. While In Richmond shy
will be the guest OF Miss Ellie Branc9
and DR.. Margaret Kuyk