The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-03
c. OF c. HEARS ABOUT VISITING
 NURSES WORK
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r(COnunueO rom rage One.) work by unit cost per thousand. This is practically what we do. We reckon the number of deaths per thousand population. Every life saved proves the value of our work---quite aside from the comfort given the patient.
 Look at the Metropolitan Life In surance Company figures. After they had used visiting nurse services for their industrial policy holders all over the United States for seven years they studied the results and found that the death rate among their policy holders was nowhere near as great as among the whole population of the registra- tion area of the United States. In dollars and cents the service has paid by it's saving of human life. In ser vice to the people it had paid for it. self many times over.
 Child Welfare: In the case of baby lives we reckon in the unit loss Of life in babies under one year per l. 900 living births. In the United States 100 babies die yearly per l. 900 living births. In Bridgeport S9.l die for every thousand living births. That is not so bad, but we can better that when every mother realizes that the Health Stations are running for her use and that everything possible is being done to keep her babies well. In New Zealand only half as many babies die as die in America and it is felt that the reason is that there are enough nurses so that every mother is reached. We ought tu have 25 nurses at work under the direction of public health doctors, so that our present work could be qua drupled during the next year.
 This work with babies and with
 
 vention-the teaching or habits of sleep and play, the proper diet, and the proper clothes, the discovery of physical defects. In the latter case i we hurry the child to his private doc ! tor for treatment.
 i Bedside Care: In Bridgeport we ! have 19 nurses who, beside being . graduates of good hospital training i schools have either training or ex- 1 perience in public health work We l answer calls from any source but ! continue visiting only under the : direction of a practicing physician. : Our work for the sick, has doubled
 during the past year. It should con
 tinue to double until we have a nurse i for every thousand population. One i hundred and seventy nurses will be 1 needed when each person uses us.
 We each work in a small district ! where we get to know our families i intimately so that she is on call for all perp1exities and ills that have to do with health and sickness. We charge
 up to 75 cents visit.
 IndustriaI: What can we do for the industries? Already the larger fac- l tories have nurses who do sometimes
 first aid work, sometimes visit absen-
 tee, and sometimes take care of the
 I,aS,- e, 54so
 There are 2l such nurses in Bridge
 port in 13 different factories. On the i face of it one sees what only a small
 part of the work is covered.
 | Our association has an elastic
 enough organization to be able to fiji | in and do work on a per visit, parc l time or full time basis. This we shall
 be req fv to do We are establishing
 in our office an efficient business sys-
 tenn which makes it possible. for us to
 rive imm e6iate and accurate informa- . tion to the industries employing us Our work for the industries is done under the same general rules as ou1 work for our other clients
 It seems to me that our nurses vii make it possible for all the factories to have a complete industrial nursins program We con work for you as } your nurses fitting our work into
 welfare work already established. We
 can help build up the health of youl
 workmen and their families in then torn es-> You can make it possible fol . u- to spread our teaching of healtt |. and our care for the sick until Bridge ] port 8 known as the home of the Q healthy workman with healthy Q happy family. where work is a joy 2 and labor unrest has disappeared. : Sornath hiYoc Vo,7 Want2 TTSt