The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-17

have gone into making the family
what 1t is, What we must deal with
in each case is complicated and COM
pick growth-the whole of the past of
each individual of the group combined
and interviewer, and SO to speak, tele-
seoped into the present.
Mental Defect.
The most serious and battling prob
lens and those which cause the great
est anxiety are those resulting from
mental defect Mental defect is es-
sentially q community problem. 1t is
the inability of the defective to hold
his own in school. in industry, and in
his contacts with fellow-men that
makes his condition of social as well
as individual concern. Society must
make special provision for those in
capable of meeting their responsible
ties or it must suffer the consequences
THE presence OF the feeble-minded
child in the regular school grade not
only results in comparatively little
benefit to him but retards the whole
class by requiring an undue portion of
the teachers time, and attention. The
| unframed defective is an industrial
! inefficient, capable at the best of doing
only very simple routine in character
/ The delinquent or uncomfortable de-
| fective is a menace to his associates
and a source of corruption to the
neighborhoed
Health.
| Next to life comes health. Without
these no man can be industrially, ment-
ally and morally as capable as the
normal man should be. The develop
ment of physique and vigor is there
fore of the greatest essentials of
wholesome life and every man should
have the opportunity TO acquire his
highest by zeal possibility. The
sacredness of human life is no longer
lreckoned, matter of private concern
to the individual
| The state now recognizes that the
preservation of health is one of its
most important functions, and more
and more attention is being given by
such organizations as the bureau to
the study and recognition of disease
symptoms. Among the activities of the
bureau coming under the head of
public health during the year were,
anti-tuberculosis work, visiting nurs-
ing, school nursing, well-baby clinics.
prenatal work, and venereal disease
clinic.
tuberculosis.
Early in the year county wide
tuberculosis committee which has
worked in conjunction with the State
and National tuberculosis organize.
tons was appointed The work of this
committee was supported chiefly by
the proceeds of the sale of Christmas
seals. The committee is indebted to
: the members of the Delta Theta Tau
, Sorority, who conducted the seal sale
in Richmond, clubs, schools and indi
ylduals who carried on the sale in each
| township outside of Richmond. Wayne
: county's share was sS26.97. Won't you
help make it many ties this amount
this coming year?
The tuberculosis patient presents q
problem not merely individual but dis
tinctly social for tuberculosis affects
the patient in all his social relations
He is often member of family
group where infection of others is
threatened. He may live in a poor
house, where darkness and dirt foster
the life of the baeilli. He may be Z
workman in a dusty factory, or hand
ling food which is sold to an unsus
d, pecting public. 1t is almost futile t.
l treat the physical symptoms of tn,
tuberculosis patient without consider
: ing and treating his social conditions
6 Public, Health, Nursing.
during the greater part of the year
, the Bureau through it's public healtl
: nursing committee has had in its en-
ployment two nurses. A part of tn,
time OF the nurses was spent in assist
- ing the medical examiners of tn
public schools and in following-uI
cases of physical defects found by tn
! school examiners in view of having tn
: defects corrected if possible. In cor
!, nectlon with this follow-up work tn
9 nurses made T52 visits. Beside nurE
!, ing visits numbered 935; child welfare
. $50; prenatal, 112; school nursins
q ll0; miscellaneous, 33S; making
= total of 2,1S1 visits by the nurse
= during the year
p The child has a right to be health
;, and society must recognize this clair
q by extending the opportunity. TIL
- right depends on two consideration,
# hrst, the child is too young to realiz
!. the permanent consequences of healt
v ana VIII therefore not guard again:
u them; second, ignorant parents ofte
n fal! 10 care properly for their childre
r and leave them handicapped for lif,
IS Inc ignorance regarding child-car
among many well-meaning mothers
shocking.
n Baby Clinics
h In June, through the child weIfai
+ committee, two baby clinics were G
10 tabllshed, one at Whitewater scho
" building, the other at Finley schoo
e. To these clinics may be taken chill
IS rem under two years of age for exar
v NATION. No treatment is given. II
a. child is found in need of medical z
N tention. the mother is advised to tai
n II to the family physician.
eff through the child welfare comm
tee 80 children whose parents con
not afford to pay for surgical care, r
IL celved attention. For this care Il
IL committee Is indebted to physician
st surgeons and the Reid Memorial he
It. pital. Glasses were procured for
re children through the generosity of
local optician
I'D Milk Lunches
re AN activity coming under the
10 rection of both the tuberculosis a,
e. child welfare committees was II
n. serving of milk lunches to undernor
oa lshed children at Whitewater schoo
II The total cost of milk from Dece,
d. Der 10 to the close of the school We
We was s369.S6. The expense was pa
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