Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-06
NEWS OF THE DAY
At NEW CASTLE
Child Health Centre Doing Splcn-
did Work, Reports In
dicate.


New Castle. Nov. 6.-The following re-
mort of the New Castle State Child Health
Center was read Yesterday afternoon De
fore the Current Events Class oil the ScW
Castle Century Club by Mrs Lewis
Booker, chairman Of the State iealeh
Center. ,,.uI
"The establishment of the State Chiid
| Health Center was agitated tor some tli,io
| in New Castle, before We wore able 70 thho M
it up. due TO the lack of funds Tor a heai.lf VI
center from the State. The cltlsehs ~
| New Castle realizing the rnmediate heou'
| and amount of worth that could bc at
| comnlshed with one, agreed to equip
| tbcir own. The State had authorized tue
nurse in charge To look up rooms ana ,oea-
tions. which work was done by the chah
man Of health Of the New Century 1ill9 oi
| New Castle, Mrs Lewis Booker. re"
rooma were available and fewer were
suitable. The State had made such stle'i
eppropriation for the State chlin ~ehhte
| work under the Reconstruction 'eiiiinn
sion of Delaware, thnt the c.qulPPihe. .on y,
the health center was DELAYED I've, ~
| children mad already had physlcal eX-
o,n;not;ons IN the schoos, but this work
was bempered To a degree due to the TACT
that we had no health center open, "hefe
nnrcnts might have consultation with
| doctor and nurse M to the physical de-
fccts found in their school children, also
where parents might bring then chii,feh
of nre-school age for examination ana al
vice The next incentive for opening
center IN New Castle war TINT o1 iaNn
fete. gotten up by the ehlldren o' IN
manuel Sunday school under tle dnt9
tion az Mrs JOSEPH II Earp. wfleh
n.ttod st62. Tins created community
enthusiasm A committee was ioti.'i
from the New Century hub with Nrs
Lewis Rocker as local chairman oi the
state child welfare The committee con
: sisted ~ Mrs Edward Natlor, treasurer
, Mrs JJoseph Enrp. Mrs Joseph Carlin,
Nfrs Frank Hewlett and Miss tlsle Biack
f, which is a fair representation OF the work.
ers Of each church andalso those Interested
in social welfare Of the community Men
tion should be made 81 the doctors .,
New Castle. each of whom has offered
b,s services and certain amount ~ time
10 the health center making u possible
that whenever the center Is open there Is
phvrician on duty.
: before the opening Il the health cen
7 .or August l6 the following donationa
we're made The New Castle branch 81 me
i Delaware CHAPTER of the Red Cross s35.
: Deemcr gave \ sink which amounted
10 sI7. James Challenger. AiO, MIS-.
George Pierce, $40; Miss Anna Spots
{ wood $40. New Castle state hiia "el-
: fare Committee made S23 - on the Nege-
!; table and dchcatessen sale. l1r Bflce
Z Xallette formed baseball team and et the
;, canea raised $50 Those Who have gwen
! articles are Mrs. John Rodney, Eliza
beth Moore Mrs George Mclntre, Mrs.
9 FrancIs NcCalhn. A T. Goudiss, owen
= sheridan Robert Harrington Since the
openinc of the center the attendance u
! children and mothers has been gratifying
! and the physlcal corrections nf the chii-
dren proport lonately large Miss LOCK
g wood has long list arranged ior III az
rsnid succession as a suitable opportunity
a presents itself Another interesting &C
G. count "a the finances The whole amount
~ money collected for the center IS s3O1 Oo.
tt Amount expended for cleaning, paperlns
le and DaintinC. plus the rental and equip
mont s247.55. Balance, s55.5l. Since
" th,s reuort there has been several dona-
e. lions Sll from a game played between the
as All-Stars and the American Manganese
q from citizen $40 from citizen =
~ from Mrs j J Black.
10 4 COPY of the above report was sent z
Mrs Ina ] Y Perkins, director OF chic
q welfare and the following letter was re
le ccivcd
Nv dear Mrs. Booker. Thank YOU SC
vi much for sending me the interesting &C
~ count Of the history and activities OF New
Castle child health center. wish every
OF one IN the state could see what has beer
at ACCOMPLISHED through local efforts anS
what fine work is now IN progress. an
40 sure that there would be no more doubter
or oblectors if We could conduct an eN
e curslon Of all citizens 70 the New asti
: health center Sincerely YOURS, Recon
strIction Commission, Ina J. y feFAlhs
director of child welfare.
L.. he
water and light plant, together with thei
engineers. met with the members oi II.
Council. They submitted valuation o
a the plants made by Gannctt, Sceiye AM
ed Fleming OF Harrisburg Pa. showing re
sa- production cost value less depreciation o
Tor s223 g3O63, and offered the plants to tn
att CITY for Sll0OOO City Council Is goin
over the engineers report tut has taken n
ise action special meeting OF Council VII
on be held Thursday evening
Of The funeral services OF Mrs. Mar
10 Mabel Duncan, wife OF George +. Oaueai
Je- who died on Thursday evening III IN
Physicians and Surgeons Hospital, Nj
P mington, will take place oH Alonda
ere afternoon. Services nj her late home, 10
Tatnall street at clock Rev. Alban /
rrv Rjchey former pastor oi lmmanut
cir Church here will have charge OF I'll
lip services. Interment will be made IN tn
Oh, Glebe cemetery, this city.
CITY Council met last evening GeoTg
lty Allen smith, city clerk, was instructed
he procure a set of books fer the use OF til
in finance committee Several complaint
we're made concerning the electric ar
yed light being out at the corner Of Sixth m
zen Delaware streets Five consecutive ulght
hs. this section has been IN darkness III
,sit members decided to sign the agreemeI
OF with the Board Of Education 10 pay ont
ecil half Of the coal hil for fuel used IN heatin
the school room which IS over the mayor
office This covers the coal used ife
January to July l. City Frcasur
John B Nianlnye submitted report +
ms ceived from George Allen Smith, the CT
pht clerk
on, The services Of the Christians Pres b
terlan Church will be held tomorrow atte