Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07
Your loving friend,
ADELIA MUELLER.
How to Obtain a County Visiting
Nurse

Is there any father in Sank county
who would take $500 for his ten
year old son? Or his four year old
daughter? Would any taxpayer in
the county begrudge the very slight
5ncrease in taxes necessary to pay the
salary of visiting nurse? We think
not.
Very we'll then, Mr.. Taxpayer,
please go right now and tell your
county board representative that you
are willing to help insure the health
of the boys ard girls to the extent Of
two and one half mill tax on each
one hunderd dollars of assessed valu-
alton. Because that is the way to get
the nurse; and that is about what it
will cost you. Let us explain.
Section 697-f0m of the 1917 Wis
consin statutes reads thus: 81 he
Board OF Supervisors of any county
is authorized and empowered to en-
ploy a graduate trained nurse. whose
duties shall be as follows: To act RS
consulting expert on hygiene IOr all
schools not already having medical
inspection either by physician or Wis
rting nurse, to assist the superinten
dents of the poor in their care Of tnR
poor in the county wfrv are in need OF
ler services, to give instruction to-
tuberculosis patients and others reia-
tive to hygienic' measures to be OBJ
served in preventing the spread OF
+,-Ea t0, ant
throughout the county and 10 per-
form such other Duties as nurse
and hygienic expert as may be as
signed to her by the Ounty board. !
Then follows a closing sentence rela-
tive to reports made by the nurse tori
the county clerk.
As rule, rural visiting nurses are'l
paid one hundred dollars. per month,
and transportation through the coun-I
ty is provided. The assessed valua-
tioTa of Sank county rs $58,637, 779s
A tax of $500 would thrCfore be-
about 21a mill tax on each one hun
dred dollars. 1t does, not appear that
this form of health insurance woulTj
bankrupt anybody does it?
A physician in Landon county, Va
said to a rural visiting nurse: u seq
no need of this We doctors get these
children anyway. We get them sooner
or later" ooh, doctor, she answered,
that is just the trouble. You mostly
get them later after they have Te-
veloped disease. 1t is the duty Of the
nurse to hunt out these children and
bring them to Your notice before their
defects have developed into dis
casa" In that county, 1855 children
were examined, and SIS per cent were
found defective Wisconsin is no bet
ter in this respect. In Chippewa
county between January and Septem-
Der. 1918, there were about 100 oper
atfons for adenofds, enlarged tonsils,
etc, not including dental work, as 4
result Of the nurses recommends
tions. Five children were removed
TO the sanitarium for tuberculosis,
and thirty cases in the county are un-
der the supervision of the nurse.
Surely such work as this pays. The
relief of suffering in any form pays,
and children are suffering from weak
eyes, INSTRUCTED breathing, and all the
other defects which do not at drst APP
pear as distressing as they really are
except to the child himself. More
over, it pays financially, not only in
preventing the ultimate cost of disease
and death. but in the saving Of school
funds. In 1858, with the hurse IN
the field for only five months. tney
were closed but 90 days.
The supervisors for Baratoo and
aei2hboring towns are, Baraboo, e.. |
w. Andrews. r. q. Griggs and Howard !
Potter, sBaraboo town, WILDER Cahoon |
fairfield. r. Thomas; Greenfield, !
George 3. McGilyra; Delton s.. S.
{ uu.res: Freedom, r. B. Dickis. The