The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-02
Directors Learn OF the Increased ac-
= tisisy of the Nurses in Factory
Cases During the Last
Month.
REPORTS ARE MADE
Mothers Meetings are Scheduled BY
Association with Nurses to Give
the Lectures and lnssrvr-
tion.

! ne pOoIU U. directors or sl6
Visiting Nurse association met this
morning and the following members
were present: Miss Collier. Miss
/ Trlmble. Miss Irwin, Miss Alton
Miss Buck. Miss McGrath and Mrs.
Hobbs The reports Of the nursing
tservice were given by Mss Brown,
Two hundred and eaghtyfo1r calls
were made in the district nursing
service, sf7 in the Metropolitan nurs-
ing service, eighteen visits for tuber-
culosis work. and thirty in the in
FAINT welfare work In many towns,
great feature is made OF Industrial
nursing. During the past two months
the keokuk visiting nurses cared for
ftEentyfour factory cases, which
necessitated making 1872 visits; and
twelve factory cases which were also
metropolitan cases, TO which 122
visits were made during January and
February.
The secretary's report made by
Miss Irwin and the treasurer's report
made by Miss Buck were accepted.
Miss Trimble reported that the social
service committee supplied four
families with food, ten with cloth
ing, four children with shoes. hos
=,
families. Expenditures: Shoes, Sits:
groceries. s12.T9; meat. soc; stock
iags, s1.00: coal, $500; hospital bill,
sS5.T5; milk, 1892. During the past
.aoath Mrs. Gregory made for the
Ian closet many pairs OF mittens
i.on, yarn donated by the Red Cross.
and Mrs. Virgins knitted for the
loan closet, a dozen pairs of chill
s:Een's stockings.
The public health nurses OF Keo-
kuk all contributed TO the memorial
10 the nurses who died in service
curing the late war.
Mothers Meeting Schedule.
A week from Wednesday there will
be mothers meeting at Rock Hall.
Miss Brown and Miss Itchy will ar
range the program, and Mrs. Hobbs
anu Miss Irwin will furnish the re-
freshments. There will also be a
mothers meeting at. the Peoples In
stitute this month. the date to be
announced later; Miss TimGie and
Miss Alton will furnish refreshments
for this meeting. On account of the
sepidemic and the prevalence of ILL
ness this winter, the mothers meet
ings were discontinued, but now it is
hoped that every month three such
meetings will be held. one at the Y.
w. C. A., another at Rock Hall, and
= third at the Peoples Institute. AT
these constructive infant welfare
work will be carried out.
I Miss Younker asked for permission
TO try to get Miss INLAY and Miss
Roberts of Ames, here for sod
demonstration during the health
week which the association is plan
ming to sponsor in May.
The Visiting Nurse association for
rlally made application for af1iiiation
with the Red Cross. In doing SO it
in no way loses its identity but
merely accepts Red Cross standards
CT work and co-operates with the
southern Lee county Red Cross nurs-
ing service.
Miss Isabel Kellman Of Des
moines, talked TO the board. She
said that when you were close TO
work you were doing, you might not
see the full effect; but from the per-
spective which she has, she knows
the Visiting Nurse association has
done and is doing a big piece Of
work. She is especially Interested
in tuberculosis work, and called at
tention to the stimulous nurse
could give tuberculosis patients by
explaining that by carelessness they
reinfect themselves as well as others
and thus limit their chance Of re-
coyery. Self interest is strong n
every one and when a patient really
sees that he is injuring himself, he
usually listens. She illustrated her
mint nv eases she had visited in
Keokuk