Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-28
COUNTY NURSE
HERE TO AID IN
PUBLIC HEALTH
People Asked To Make
Use of Red Cross
Enploye

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Miss Lola Flenner, a public healtl
nurse If number of years. expert
ence, and recently a worker in chile
hygiene in New York city, has ar
rived in Americus to take up tn,
work of Red Cross nurse for Sum
ter county. She las already begun
her activities, with headquarters il
the Red Cross chapter room in tn,
postoffice building, and Stephen Pace
chairman of the Sumter county chap
ter, today issued a public appeal fol
cooperation on the part of the peo
pie of the community with Miss Flen
ner in the work she IS here to do.
Following is the text of Mr.. Pace!
statement:
Introducing Miss Flenner.
To The People of Sumter Coun-
ty: The Americus and Sumter
County Red Cross Chapter desires,
in this manner, to introduce to you
Miss Lola Allen Flenner, who to-
day enters the employ of the chap
ter as Red Cross nurse for Sumter
county. Miss Flenner is a grad
uate nurse, and for the past ten
or more years has been engaged
in health work with the Pennsyl-
vania State Department of Health
and the New York Department of
Health; and she comes to us with
unqualified endorsements from
these two health departments, in
addition to that of the Southern di-
vision of the American Red Gross:
with her training and expert
ence we are confident Miss Flen-
ner will be the source of great
benefit to the people of the coun-
ty. There are few subjects with
which we are less familiar than that
of health-living in a way and un-
der conditions which will promote
health and then knowing how to
regain good health after an attack
of illness; but we are gradually
learning that health is a very rela-
tive condition-that the sickness
of our neighbor endangers our own
family-that to a certain extent
we must in this, as in other things,
be 'our brothers keeper
Cooperation Is Asked
'Miss Flenner will try to reach
every man, woman and child in the
county, through the home and the
children, and will work in cooper
alton with the county and city
health authorities and the physic-
ians of the city and county, and
under the direct supervision of a
nursing committee of the chapter.
This committee will doubtless make
some public announcement so soon
as they have formulated the gen.
eral outline of the work to be un-
dertaken during the immediate fu-
ture The chapter urges the ear
nest cooperation of the people and
that you do not hesitate to call
upon Miss Flenner or report to her
concerning matters in her line of
work; for the present her head
quarters will be in the Red Cross
rooms, on the second floor of the
postoffice building.
"STEPHEN PACE, Chairman"
Miss Flenner is a graduate of thu
South Side Hospital of Pittsburg. Fol
eleven years she was connected will
the Pennsylvania department o:
health, and later for a time with tn,
New York State department of health
and recently in child hygiene work il
New York city.
Work Educational
Her work for the present in Sum
ter county will be largely educationa
and experimental. She will cooper
ate with DR.. B. F. Bond, count!
health officer, and the city health off
cials, assisting in school physical ex
aminations and going into the home
of defective pupils to assist the par
ents in correcting the defects pointe'
out by the examination reports. Sh
will also be at the service of the pub
lie at all times for calls for advic
or assistance, and it is expected tha
the public use her services since she
here to serve the public.
The county nurse idea is a prod
uct of the broadened field of activit,
of the American Red Cross. Hereto
fore the activities of that organiza
ton have been directed to relief worI
in wars and disasters, or in charit,
cases; now it's work embraces tn
whole public. It is teaching publ
health in its broadest sense; it is at
tempting to show and train peopl
how to keep well and avoid the nee
essity of the services of the physic
ian.