The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-11
DR.. E.v. BRUMBACH IN CHARGE
New Course Open to Normal School and
College Graduates-Wlll Be Person
ally Directed by Former Member of
Marquette Medical Col. Faculty.

Recognizing that war conditions will
increase the menace Of preventable dis
ease among the civilian population at
the same time that army needs demand
the services of an increasing number of
physicians and nurses, the Wisconsin
Anti-Tuberculosis Association announc-
es the establishment Of new course
for health instructors, designed to train,
in the briefest possible time, a limited
number of women in the fundamental
knowledge of health conservation and
disease prevention. The purpose of the
course is to equip normal school and
college graduates. to supervise the
health and physical conditions of chill
dren and adults of the civil population.
Plans for thus providing new public
health worker for field in which, even
under peacetime conditions, the rapidly
growing demand had far exceeded the
supply that could be recruited from
the ranks of the trained nurses have
been under careful consideration for a
long time. The country has been
searched for the best available director
and the Executive Committee and Of
fcers of the Association congratulate
themselves on now being able to an
nounce that the course will be under
the personal direction of Doctor E. V.
Brumbaugh, formerly of the Milwau-
kee Health Department and the faculty
of Marquette Medical College. In adj
ditions to being a scientifically train
ed, experienced and broad-visioned
health official and director of medical
school inspection, DR.. Brumbaugh was
a teacher, principal and superin-
tendent of schools before becoming a
physician. He will have associated
with him number of the leading health
experts of the state who will assist
with the lecture and laboratory work
and in the supervision of the actual
field service which will be an important
part Of the training The field of OPP
portunity which awaits this new pub
lie health worker and which will open
up to her, once her presence has be-
come known, is a large one. There is
need for her in schools, in city health
departments, in factory welfare de-
partments, in health stations and elm
les, and in many other Of the recon
struction activities which America
must Of necessity undertake on stu
pandous scale both at home and abroad
for many years to come
The course for health instructors and
supervisors is a definite response to a
definite need. 1t is a practical reply
to the appeal that has come to the Wis
consin nti-Tuberculosis association
from all parts of the state to g do
something to meet serious emer-
gency to which the public is just begin
ming to awaken. The shortage of doc
tors and nurses at time when war re-
violations are arousing communities to
the need of health conservation and es-
pecially to the need of safeguarding
children is causing grave concern
tErou ghout the state Something must
be done and done quickly to meet this
shortage. We must have more, not less,
health supervision in our schools. We
must provide new health forces to
work for the protection of the civilian
population against epidemics and pro-
lection of the civilian population
against epidemics and preventable dis
ease. We must release trained nurses
for the important positions here and
abroad in which their specialized nurs-
ing training and skill are indispens-
able.
The course with be established this
fall and the first class will begin work
early in September. Present plans are
for ten months course, including the
practical field work. 1t will be given
at the association headquarters in the
University Extension building, Al Van
Buren, street, Milwaukee. The number
Of students will be limited and the
members of the class will be carefully
selected with special reference to ma.
tural qualifications for the work.
Teaching technique has been made q
fundamental entrance requirement be-
cause it is felt that public health work
is primarily a teaching job. Promot-
ing health conservation and disease pre-
vention are essentially educational
work and the principal function of the
public health nurse and of all public
health forces is to teach people how to
keep well rather than to nurse them