The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-13
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trustees had chance to aid Several of
these are dead and the names of at least
two others were used by the petitioners
without their consent and knowledge
and contrary to their wishes.
Thirty-eight, the trustees say, have
received substantial and direct money
aid from the trust, amounting to over |
$4,000, and in addition to this money !
aid they have received aid in very large
and substantial amounts in the way of
hospital, nursing and medical service or !
gained by the trustees at great labor {
and expense One of these SO women
has received $500 in direct aid in
cash and in addition constant nursing
service. This same woman was assisted :
by the agent of the trust to move to
different quarters several times and
has been constant subject of patient
| care by the agent. Another of these
rs women has received over $4,000 in
direct aid in cash from the trust funds
and seven others over $1,000 each
not including hospital and nursing aid
which each of them has received "A
number have received all the aid they
asked for.
For further answer the trustees say
|
| have not received aid and whose
rames are set forth in the bill of com
plant one was refused unconditional
financial aid because she had property
xceeding in value $1,000; another had
property exceeding $4,000, and the prop
erty of several others exceeded S 900 /
each.
Each application of these women, it |
is asserted has received careful and I
sympathetic attention Her needs and |
circumstances have been looked into |
| carefully and the reasons why aid has |
been given or has not been given are
at the disposition of the court from the
records of the trustees. Careful endeav
ors have been made wherever possible
t. remove the causes of the applicants
difficulties whether financial or not.
Under the head of Kindred Uses of
. the Fund the trustees state that there
was no hospital or trained nurses in
1900 They built the Brattleboro Me-
mortal hospital, which last year took
\ are of 60 persons and has trained
many nurses. They have used for its
construction and support over $350,000.
They organized the Mutual Aid asso-
I citation which has been open day and
I night to answer all calls for help in
\ sickness in the homes, and last year filled
| 700 calls of this kind. This institu-
| son is training attendants or house
hold nurses and last year n6rsed IS per
l cent of the women in childbirth. On
this the trust has spent over $4,000
The trust has furnished free medical
\ help through an arrangement with the
\ doctors 1t has assisted the school COM
4 mittee to start school nursing, and IS
n | 10 Of Ia IN
\ ring their children to school age in
| God condition by a special nurse.
Among other things which the find has
] cone are enumerated the following:
1t started and maintained a tubercu-
4 l1sis infrmarv, and a tuberculosis nurse.
I until the disease was reduced and has
- helped tuberculosis patients since then.
u 1t bought and opened a smallpox hos
I Oital when there was a serious outbreak
l IN 1908. 1t caused all preparations to
4 he made for an emergency influenza hos
1 pital So that Brattleboro was almost the
/ only town in the country ready to open
! UGH hospital at once-the result be-
1 ing a lower death rate
4 1t has supported kindergarten; like
l wise. house for women needing a rest
I n the summer.
1T has epdeavored to help the town
I 10 obtain as complete as possible a Sys
en- for caring for sickness, avoiding
disease, and of instruction for the pres
rvation of health, and in this it ha.
had the cooperation of many of it
NJ best citizens.
At the present time there, are SOM
s. persons engaged in ministering t
the needs of the people of Brattlebor
| and vicinity. who are either employee,
| 7irectly by the trust or by the hospita
| the Mutual Aid association, or the kin
| dergarten. almost every one having con
| tinous employment
The last complete year s record
| show that some LOO different pieces o
| 3ervice have been done in a singl
| year 5 term, for persons or groups Q
| persons by these employees. countin
- each case, no matter how long, as
. single piece of work There are som
1000 days spent III out nursing wor
by these employees and some 6.449 day
of hospital service given, not countin
out patients.
7DI Over 1000 nursing visits were mad
IN Over 1000 children were examined, OF
ten more than once, by the nurses 9
part of their work with the children
m This work being found the best wa
= to prevent future disease and dsabilit,
ur The trustees state they have use
nineteen twentieths of the income G
the fund in the town of Brattl,
,alI boro for these purposes, an
they say that if their agents had nc
:. done their duty, and if the money ha
been used as demanded for direct al
to persons not entitled to it, or if the
had used it for the support of a few PEI
sons in home, they would have ha
less money or no money at all for tn
. hospital and for other work for til
cure and prevention of sickness. The
tho say, in consequence, many sewing We
~ men and others in similar eircumstar
VI ces would have died or suffered
They also call attention to the fac
no. that the petitioners not only deman
the money that would have to be take
ich away from the hospital, but at the san