The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-08
Visiting Nurse Association
 Makes Its Annual Report
OFFICERS FOR COMING YEAR REELECTED AT
 MEETING HELD LAST NIGHT

The annual meeting or the NlSlLhS Nurses association was held last night in the Welfare building at which officers for the coming year were reelected. Those elected are: Mrs. Sanford Stoddard, president; Mrs. Elmer H. Ravens, first vice president; Mrs. J. D. Skinner, second vice president; Mrs. Herbert Knapp, 3rd vice president; Mrs. Roy EI Clark, recording secretary; Mrs. Charles H. Shapiro, corresponding secre tary, and Charles w. Bittzer, treasurer.
 At the meeting Helen F. Boyd, su- perintendent of the association, pre- scented her annual report, which was as fo1Iowss
 So much has happened during the past year that dt would take too long to gaEe each part of the work in de- tal. In co1sequeFSce I will divide the work dntD its obvious divisions and give a brSef summary under catch dd- vision of the changes made and the anoGrut of work undertaken and car ried ont
 1. OEFFEE. The record system has been entirely changed. We now have a complete record of the patient whom we are caring for so that our infor- nation is at any time available to the doctors or fanaiaies of the patients. The prfnrdFaI feature in the Family Folder" which records the physical and social condition of the different members of the family. This makes possible good hea1th work with the whole family, for QUIT nurses as teach CTS and guardians of the public health feel a direct responsibility for the health of OUT patients and of all the individuals with whom they come in contact in tine course of our work
 -5an 41o zcSa does very little of the mechanical part. She is responsible for an atc- clLra4e account of her work written on her dai4y report which she carries in the ditst1iEt. All the rest of the work is done by casrks who transcribe the reports onto the permanent records. This duty has meant a need of more systematic office work and on January ', 1920, Miss EstBI1e B. Hunter, Organ ization Adviser of the Chi4dren's Blu reau of the Department of Labor at Washington, spent three weeks with our association studying the records and the office management both Of which she helped revise on a more efficiEut basis. Miss Hunter was sent by the BITeam with out expense to the association. She is highly skilled in her speciality and proved herself most unusually capable
 PUBLICITY Through the hearty cooperation of the Ireas we have been able to have all important no tices of the work put in the papers. This has been a most material help to our work in making it known through the city.
 2 STAFF!. In JannaFy, 1919, we had five staff nurses while in Jan rrar-v. 1920, we have 15 We have been careful not to increase the staff too fast for good work. The teaching public health principles and practice to the new nurses has been in the hands of Miss Janet Ottley, who has done her work we'll That there has been a great deal to do will be real ized when one thinks of the increase in the staff and of the fact that onlg three of the nurses who were on duty in January, 1919 continued on the staff
 The difficulty of getting nurses witt training or experience in public health has made the committee de eide to award scholarships in grad uate work in public health in Teach CTS College, Columbia University tc nurses who beside being graduates O recognized hospital are also higl school gTa duates. We were fortu nate in being able to send two nurse Miss Jeannette Bradley and Mis- Marie Webb for four months of tn winter term in 191s- This cours gives the nurses point of view tha is seldom acquired without years o work in the district. It gives them perspective and a realization of tn place of the public health nurse il the public health work of the day l makes them attack each family prob lem with a sympathy and understand ing that is no less keen because the use their heads as well as thei hearts.
 The Ford Sedan given by Waite B. Lashar has made it possible fo one nurse in the North BridgepoI district to cover much more tetrrttor than would otherwise have been pos sible.
 The two hospital training school are still sending pupil each for tw months practical work and training This service could well be increase so that instead of giving the tw months to only six nurses odt ( every class each nurse could get a that our association can give in tn! important branch of the nursing SCI vice. p
 sY BEDSIDE CARE. The chal shows an encouraging increase in tn number of patients who are using ou nurses. The number of doctors wh feel that our care is valuable in the work has increased. Even so ther are probably some 2,000 patients eac month who could weH use the service of our nurses, but who do not kno' about us.
 PRENATAL work has been 1T creased. The Municipal Clinic is dc ing valuable work with the patien who are indigent and who will go the hospital The Department Charities does the fo4+ow-up wor with the Clinic patients. The T. suit of this arrangement is that tf Visiting Nurse Association finds i patients among those women who al going to use either the private doctt or midwife. We carry on our bool in January 1920. 45 expectant mott CTS
 TUBERCULOSIS NURSING follow somewhat the same arrangernel el with the Municipal Clinic. The cIin cares for all indigent ambuIatory D. tientS with tuberculosis. The D paFtmeht of Public Charities follow up the patients and their patien and their families. The Visitir Nurse Association visits the patien