The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-08

Bridgeport there are 3l nurses who are doing industrial work As there are some 384 factories one sees that the field is only touched. Employers who know the work of the nurse in industry say that she is invaluable Her specific work iT
 (a) First Aid work thereby pre- venting infection and shortening the period of disability
 Cb) Care of minor ailments (under the direction of a physician) thereby l enabling the employee to continue l work
 Co Prevention of the spread of communicable disease by being on the alert to see the first symptoms and by 1 education of the employees to prevent | the spread
 (d) Bettering the health standards
 of the employees by giving instruction | in the ways of keeping well (e) Visiting absentees and taking
 care of the emp1oye who is sick Or of | any member of his family By this work the emp1oye returns sooner to ] his work and with an easier mind if l he knows the nurse is caring for his | wife and children
 | (f) Being the intelligent friend and | co-worker who can do much to es- ! 1 between the employer and the em- ploye, in this way helping to estab- l fish relations that will counterbal- ] ance the labor unrest of the times The above nursing can be done by l the nurse in the plant, either full | time or part time or by the nurse in l the district She may be engaged | directly by the manufacturers she
 may be engaged from the Visiting 1 Nurse Association The Visiting
 Nurse Association has offered the
 manufacturers our service which can i be arranged to fit in with the differ l ent organizations of the factories We made our initial offer in the | work for the following factories l American Chain Co.-Bedside care
 of referred cases. l Ashcroft Mfg Co--visit absentees
 and care for sick employees or mem
 bers of their families
 Bi1ton Machine Tool Co.-Yisft re
 ferred cases
 Bridgeport Hardware Co. - Visit
 absentees and care for the sick em- ployes or members of their families
 Keep the first aid room in order
 BuI1ard Machine Tool Co--v1sit
 absentees and care for sick employees or members of their families.
 Burns-Bassick Co--Visit absentees
 and care for the sick employees or
 members of their families
 | Eastern Ma11eable O. - Visit re l ferred cases and care for sick em- l p1oyes or members of their families D. M Read's-Visit referred cases
 and care for the sick employees. Pro l vide a nurse for first aid for half time.
 Western Union Telegraph Co. - Visit referred cases and care for sick
 patients
 The industrial field offers US an op-
 portunity of service in a part of the
 pt1baIc health nursing field that opens
 up unlimited chances for bettering
 social conditions, as we'll as taking an
 active part in the industrial life of an
 industrial city
 5. CHILD wRI IHeAF9Fz nI1rSinr- was
 begun by the association the first of
 May when the Department of Health ] established two Health Stations, one at the Waltersville and one at the
 Jackson school Prospect School Il Health Station was in charge of oul nurses beginning August. 1g19 Dr I1eRoy A Wilkes, Director of the Df- vision of Child Hygiene, gives to eacI child who attends the station, a ful l VlS1nS nurse is in attendance at the clinics and follows up the children into the homes During the year we have I taken care of 133 babies up to year. l of age and of 515 children from P years up to school age which is ! usually six years. The average at | tendance at the stations has been G. 3. = which is a most promising beginning = for a new project.
  house for children who are anemic
 badly nourished children or convales T cent from some disease, was openet r the first of July The need for som, t place where this type of child could v Igo for fresh air and nourishiIIg foot : was acute The Department of Pub
 lie CharfSees ran a Fresh Air Hom, $ for p1'e-t -tubercular children in Fair n field which made it possible for tn HemFoclxs to take no pre-tu1oercula T cases. During the three months tn, :, house was opened we gave vacation F to 59 children, and four mothers II They averaged a vacation of B day = each
 The Hem1ocks is beautifully situat
 ed high above the Hemlocks Reser ;. voir. It is owned by the Bridgeqor = Hydraulic Company who have 1oanet . the association the use of the place
 
 . and help from interested friends pre- l pared the place with it's entire equip ' ment for the children in less than Il month. Miss Mary A Crowley, $ graduate nurse, was put in charge. " We were able to take children fo
 practically all the social agencies i - town. When possible the childre l. paid board and when not possible tn $ children were taken free. O Entertainment once a week wa 'f furnished by Mrs. Sara Sherma. k Pryor and her gypsy story-t -telers > Even Mir. Steinke went there one da -e and Ietf our blackboard full of sue ts delightful figures that we could hard e ly bear to rub them out again. 'r The fields and the grove on brigt ,a days and the rocmy barn on rain l. days kept the children busy having
 good time.