The Columbia evening Missourian., 1920-11-11
COLUMBIA RED
CROSSNEEDS
MORE MONEY
iNlrse' Kept By Local Chapter,
examining Public School
Children of This
County.
TO HAVE MEMBER DRIVE
oood l Health Habits Begun and
Encouraged-Majority
Need Some Kind of
Medical Care.

in uhe ned Gross roll call which begin,
mere today and continues IN The 25,l
Dig effort will be made to enroll ever,
person IN the county. The Columbia Red
eioss chapter is badly in need of fund.
sitn which to carry on the work which
has been begun.
ihere Is registered Red Gross Pub.
nc Health nurse here and she is kept here
iy the local chapter. She is doing a biz
WORK IN this county although great
many persons are not well ACQUAINTED
WIN what she is doing. AT present she
,s engaged in carrying on the public
heaith nursing service among the school
cniidren Of the rural schools of Boone
County. She has visited great part of
The schools and those remaining will be-
visited within a short time. According
TO Miss Dorothy BroeffIe. the nurse. an
attempt will be made to yisi, each school
nnce month and see thai the work which
she begins on the first visit is kept up
and that some real results are obtained
which will better the general health Of
the school children Ct Boone County.
According to Miss Broeffle a great
rnmber Of the school children in the ru-
raj schools are in need of medical atten-
lion in some form. When she goes into
school she examines each child for
Eany different ailments which are com
mon to children. Their eyes. nose. throat
mouth, skin and teeth are examined and
their condition noted and recorded. Their
height and weight are also recorded and
then from a table Of standard weights
'for children IL is determined whether o,
not they are under weight II a child Is
much under weight the cause is deter
mined. He is questioned as to whether
or not he drinks coffee, whether he sleeps
with tlie windows up at night and many
other questions which. when answered |
reveal the cause of the child's under. |
weight.
To ger the children interested in this
work it is introduced 10 them as a health
game" Each child is given a card which |
has upon it twelve things which he is
supposed to do each day. A place is
provided upon the card where, the child
can put check mark each day il he
docs what is called the Health chore.'
lie is called health crusader il he
promises to do these things. and at the
end Of certain specified time, he is Civ
en- a badge.
The number Of children in Boone
County who are in need of medical al
teniion is surprisingly large. In one
school of fifty-three pupils PRACTICAL,
every child had enlarged tonsils. or ad
enoids. or his teeth were in very bad con
dition. II was found that ten out Of the
fifty-thrcc were coffee drinkers. This
school has only the FIRST seven grsdes
Several Of the pupils who said they drank
coffee were from 6 to 8 years old. They
we're asked il they slept with their room
windows open at night, and only twenty
out Of the ffty-three signihed tha, they
did so. When the question as to how
used a tooth brush was asked, only
four responded in the affirmative.
These are some Of the conditions which
are being bcttered by having Red Gross
nurse in the community. When child
Is found to be in need Of medical atten
lion his parents are notified by written
statement by the nurse. According to
Miss Brecfflc. most Of the parents immed
lately take their children to a doctor
~ dentist. The surprising conditions
which are being found in Boone COUNTY
arc due TO the fact that people as a whole
are moi aware Of the conditions which
exist As soon as they are told Of them
lhey Immediately have them remedied.
The work Of Red Gross nurse is not
confined to the schools. She carries on
work Of this sort in every community il
lhc county. Il takes money 10 keep this
.scrk going and the Red Gross roll call
/ 10 be conducted from November II toi
Inc Is for that purpose. 1