Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-28
Home Nursing Demonstration
And State Health Plans
Afternoon Session Delaware Red Cross Very Valuable in
Information Audience Learned About Home Nursing
Course-Chester H. Wells, New Health Commissioner
for Defence Outlines Plans for Making Della
ware More Healthy Publicity Factor.

II was quite impossible for any one
who has mol aiken . home nursiug coEfse
to see the demonstration II the Red
Cross meeting 1t the Century Club.
YESTERDAY afternoon and want - cur3ls
luuncdiatcly ina class \ demonstration
in home nursing. was directed bN Nj s
Mary Moran, director 81 the RCti rass.
Teaching Center, CIR Delaware avenue.
and II In II self taught the audience 50
much. that II made every one reallke
how valuable n courSc must he her
were tnrcc parts IN the demonstration
Miss Nargrrtta Frederick made ~lml i
medical bed such as Is mads for thr
ordinary SICK person. Hiss Nargaret
Almond made n bed with a dummiS
patient IN IT. and Mrs Nary Henry
WhIttcn made a mustard plaster and put
1t on the patient These are all very
simple things, tut there i all the dlfter-
ence in world between dong them right
and doing them wrong The course also
includes baths for cleanliness and to
reduce fever. counter Irri;ants and ap-
plicatlons of various sorts, and hot water
bags and zee bags
Although this was the closing feature
of long day. devoted 70 the Bureau of
Hygiene OF 'he Delaware Red Cross,
everybody stayed 10 sect aud felt repaid
Hiss Emily Z Ijlssell, chairman Of the
bureau of dcvelopmehIt who presided
at the meeting announced that the Sep
tember meeting will Ue devoted 10 the
Junior Red Cross.
Yesterday afternoon session Is rs taken
up with the demonstration. bret talk
bv the treasurer, Henry Canhy, who asks
all auxiliary trcasurers To report by the
fourth OF every month, and an address
bv Chester II Wells, special Health
commissioner for the State Council
of Defense Mr. Wells spoke Instea
of DR.. f. r. Hunter, who Wis 70 come
from the First Aid Division OF the Amerl-
can Red Cross, but who was detained III
Washington When introducing Or.
Wells Miss Bisscll stated that hIs appear
ance was an evidence Of good luck being
with the meeting.
STATE HEALT PROGRAM.
Publicity is great factor IN health
work" DIR. Wells stated in his add ress
which was devoted TO tthe work that his
department Of the Council Of Defense
hopes to inaugurate III this State : Con
trary to many physicians and health
officials he said, Il believe that II there
are a certain number OF typhoid or small,
p0x cases the public ought to be informed
then the reasons can be more readily
obtained and the remedy more easily
brought about DR. Wells SAID he and
his co-workcrs have no intention OF finding
fault. they want to coop. rate with ever
existing agency III the State. They
intend having an office where the com
plants can be received, and the are
planning for various educational and
remedial agencies.
Some of the ambitions OF his depart
ment follow:
To circularize doctors to report I'M
medatelv every communicable disease.
To have all cascs followed up and the
sources done away with.
To have a complete registration Of
birth and death rates. Delawares in
FAINT morality rate may be high, because
births are not reported promptly, or at
all 1t is planned to have certificates
of birth, that parents may have on appll
cation
To offer free tests for communicable
diseases and free vacl nation
TO publish monthly health bulletin.
To investigate housing and plumbing
laws, with a view to their revision.
To obtain more district nursing, as a
nurse is more valuable than a health
inspector Nurses 90 into homes and
gain the confidence of the family as no
one else can do.
To hold health conferences once or
twice year.