New Britain herald., 1918-12-05
|SITING NURSES PUT IN BUSY YEAR ss
bort Shows 800 Subnormal
 Children in City

8he annual meeting of the Visiting &ses' association was held this aft bon. Reports were presented by s Ella Dorman, superintendent Of ses, and by the nurses committee, which Louise c. Hart is chairman. A. c. F. Chase presented the finan- 8 report for the past year.
 Report of Treasurer.
 he report of Mrs. Chase, treasurer he association, follows:
 eceipts-Balance on hand, Decem- 1917, $348.47; subscriptions for year, $2,46S; nurses collections Sthe year, $1,154.21; received from ropolitan Life Insurance Co.,, 06: moneys refunded, $6.70. Total tpts, $5.OS3.3S.
 sbursem salaries for months, $3,945; nurses carfares, liability insurance. SIP; printing, age and advertising, $116.50; tele- he, $47.45; supplies and miscel- pus. $102.O5. Total $4,323.
 hlance on hand Dec. 5, $760.3S. Emergency fund of $3,O51.44 is in- bd as follows: Burritt Savings , $1,442.54; Savings Bank of New ain, $1,608.9o.
 Report on Nurses Work.
 be report of Miss Dorman, super ndent of Nurses was as follows: Having been here so short a time haying had so many changes in working force, we have very little indeed to report.
 8here were vacations with substi. to help out, and when we were M hoping to settle down with a lament staff and work out plans Development, the epidemic came but all plans out of commission Fnitely.
 e are just getting to the point P5 where We are considering what winters work will be. The bed nursing is just temporary relief. wish to do it for the comfort we Id, we feel the thing that counts e long run is the instruction we give in the families we visit. It ing to make healthier children, IT homes, and better citizens 1t will have a far reaching inf1u- Ql the coming generation.
 robably no person has such fine rtunities for influence in a con- ty as a visiting nurse; but if she en calls and two or three of them maternity cases or influenza e there are several in the family and she is spending from thirty tes to one hour on the road be- I her different calls, she cannot very much time instructing the y about diet for different ages; loesn't stop to inquire about the the children go to bed. She It even have time to find out physical condition of each one he children or what preventive rrective work needs to be done. gives a few instructions about al cleanliness, fresh air. and bare of the patient, and rushes
 the next case. Her work has almost entirely with the indivi- who was sick, and it should be the entire family.
 800 SubnormaI Children.
 hat is not the kind of work we to do. We want to have a suffi- number of nurses so we can
 some time trying to improve general health and the living tions of these families. There large number (nearly 80o) prmal children in New Britain at veighing and measuring contest. e want to take care of those Ten and bring them as nearly as ols to normal conditions. But important even than the care of poor little waifs is the preven- work we should be doing so that weighing and measuring contest
 place in New Britain five years }, there will not be 800 sub- al children (even allowing for creased popuIation) needing fol- Ip work.
 e want to have time at least a week to meet and discuss our nus lines of work and make
 for improvng and developing ou. SC that means a larger force krses.
 lere seems to be three principal along which we should develop is the attendance of a nurse al aries. Several of the doctors have ssed a desire to have a nurse
 they could call upon,\ and we Dping to be able to comply witt need at any time of day ol
 when the doctors should call will probably include some pre-.
 work and much post nata iss Heath Studying in N. Y.
 iss Heath is now at the mater center in New York observing
 methods of carrying on dis delivery and maternity service nope that here as in the large
 this may include prenatal care doctor has made the request tha, nurse take the urinalysis ant It various symptoms. Some doc kiiu undoubtedly prefer to Watcf wases themselves; but there ar,