The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-28
NURSE PROBLEM
IN BRATTLEBORO
School Started for Training
Women to Meet
Shortage
THREE ADDRESSES
IN THE AUDITORIUM
Secretary Dalton of State Board of
Health, DR.. Johnson in Charge of Ru-
raj Dental Work and Tru-tco Bradley
of Thompson Trust.

VI IuOuiPooh liuot' |
A handful of persons listened to espe-
cialy interesting talks in the Auditorium
last evening by DR.. Charles f. Dial
ton of Burlington. secretary of the
state board of health, DIR. Earl f. John
son of Burlington, who is connected with |
the state board of health and is doing
dental work among children in rural dis |
tricts, there being no charge to the chill |
dren for the work, and Richards NJ Brad |
ley of Boston. The speakers, who came |
here in connection with the Children's |
Year movement, were introduced by Rev. |
Z. @. S. osgood
| DIR. Dalton was the first speaker and he
told of plans to save the lives of 100000
children in the United States during this
second year of the war and that Yer
mont's share of the babies to be saved
was 32l. He said that the efforts in this
community should not be confined to the
clinic which il being conducted at present,
but that a series of meetings should be
| held in the schoohouses in various com
munitics and outlying districts and that
physicians and nurses should be engaged
to give talks, in this way stimulating in
terest and enthusiasm i'll the preserva-
ton of the lives of our children. Dr.
Dalton showed a number of charts on the
care of children. He suggested that min
listers be asked to preach on the subject
of public welfare, or to devote some part
of sermon TO the subject of baby saving,
child welfare or the Importance of tax
ing proper care OF children and of the
mother. He said he would like to see
baby week observed by a parade Of all
the children, owners OF automobiles being
asked TO give the Use of them to take
the babies and mothers from the poorer
sections of the town. He spoke of the
vast amount of followup work that
would be required after the clinic has
been completed.
Rural dental work was explained by
pr johnson, who said that we have been
asked to conserve our natural resources,
T to conserve food. and now we are asked
to help in the conservation of lives. He
said that from % to 9S per cent of the
: children are in need of dental work. The
, work Of the dental clinics held shows
. that only - per cent of the persons i'll the
e rural districts have been to Il dentist.
I | He said Vermont has IL fund set aside by
t Redfeld Proctor and Miss Emily Proctor
especially to cover the expense of these
rural dental clinics and thu work is go
ing on in districts remote frcm dentists in
, Rutland Bennington and Orleans coun-
. ties and that it is planned to carry on
: an educational campaign throughout the
state on the care cf the teeth.
He spoke of the movement that is on
foot to relieve the conditions which exist
in Windham county through the medium
Of travelling dental ambulance. The am
bulance, which those interested are CON
templating getting. is one now be NJ used
by the United States army overseas
This has a complete outfit for three mel
to work with all modern dental equip
mcnt and viii enable the travelling den
lists to do the Same grade of work VIII 81
they can do i'll their own Offices. Inter
estcd persons are now try ng to secur'
funds fer purchasing such equipment a
WI br required for carrying on the work
Windham county is the first county il
the United States to have nderial;ei
ouch a proposition, and it i hoped tina
the plan viii meet with the hearty ap
proval of everyone interested in the wei
fare and health OF children.
The speaker said Vermont was the frs
state in the Union To undertake rura
dental clinics He said that the ayerag
child is held back six month Of schoc
in the first eight grades on account .
tooth troubles and this costs the dis.ric
between SO and $50 to duplicate tn
time lost by tho children. Thus it wi
be seen that the care of the teeth c
&c children il an economic measure we
w ~ a health measure Fifty per cent {
ell the young men of draft age were rciectc
oi- on account of physical defects and OF
US Of these it was found that 40 per Ger
to had defective teeth. After DR.. johnson
By talk large number of stereoptico
by slides were thrown on the screen, whic
it, showed the condition of children wit
ng poor teeth and the contrast when IL
VIC teeth have had proper care.
is Mr.. Bradley, who is one of the trustee
81 of the Thompson memorial fund, on
to- lined the aims of the Thompson scho
II. for nurses. which has been established
:. the Mutiial Aid headquarters on Harr
H. place His address follows:
al Our national authorities have rcco
ut nized the principle that in supplyil
,ot soldiers and nurses, food, coal and shi
or. to the war they must not only use VIII
eIn they nut into the war to the best .
res vantage but they must supply the pla
,ss. It home of what they take in such
eo way that the nation can continue
'ish work and stand the strain of suppo
by ing the war. 3lt
iicc This work at the rear is Just as NJ
essary as the work at the front. The
ose was n few years ago a Turkish &c
rior cral who said ii was his business
fight. he was not Interested in comm
on aariat end transportation at the re
day He accordingly lined his men up in fro
and of the Bulgarians and kept them tn,
for three days until they left-not fir
you fear of shot and she'll, but just fir
plain hunger. He was not an
around business proposition, and
failed at the rear.
We have got corresponding pr
lem right here in Brattleboro to VIII
| now ask your attention, for uni