The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-13


mentals in food selection and IL
rood purchase. He asked II it woult
be possible to have a school nurse TO,
the county or some one to take tn,
place of the school nurse and not con
nne their work to school children
but to work among the parents who
are diseased somewhat on the plar
OF welfare work as it is done in the
cities, but to take the people who
had never had proper training and
teach them better ways OF running
their home affairs and when an order
was made out for merchandise fol-
such people as that to hand it to the
county nurse for approval and lei
her do the buying or say what should
| be bought for that family after visit
ing the family Then in cases where
1t was needed let her stay and teach
them some of the fundamentals
about house keeping and cooking
and selection and preparation of
1000. In that way the family would
De helped to an understanding of
how to help themselves. Under the
present system it is merely doing
out some cash to them to buy mer-
chandise and let them squander It
Tor something that did them but
little good and go on with their un-
sanitary ways Of living and then have
typhoid fever and have to take care
OF them during their illness. only
multiplies the troubles for them and
muitiplles the expense for the
county. On the other plan it might
gardually weed out such troubles as
that. For instance, he said there was
family out at Wapello that had
been sick, or part of them sick,
nearly all fall and winter so far.
They had nearly all had typhoid
fever and probably that was prevent
able If somebody had gone there and
taught them how to take care of
themselves and it would have saved
at least one death and much sick
ness
Judge Good replied that he had no
doubt there was great need of such
a person as. a county nurse and there
was great need Of school nurse and
the practice of having all the pupils
examined once year so that remed-
les might be applied to the very bad
cases of adenoids and bad tonsfls
and other troubles of the eyes, nose,
throt and ears. He said they had
taken care of a number of bad cases
and restored pupils who were really
of no use themselves nor anybody
else until after these operations were
performed. But, he said, this county
has not enough population to justify
Keeping probation officer, a school
nurse and county nurse and when
we try to decide just what we shall
have to do the work of all those diff
ferent branches Of service, it resolves
itself back again to the probation
officer working under the direction
OF the court to go out and do any
thing of those things which is most
needed, not OF course including the
domestic science work and the teach
ing of sanitation and other things
connected with the work OF the
county nurse. He says that Ada
county has three probation officers
and he considers It good and nro-
ftable service to the public at large
He suggested that II people had 5000
head of livestock as they have 5000
head of children in this county, thev
would not ston at any expense t. get
the right kind Of care for those live
stock, but that thew do not exrend
their money freely for the care o.
the children in such activities as we
have been speaking about. He said
there were SINE REQ" lie so low in
that resnect that if they could sell
their children as they do their live
stock he believed they would do it
and that those peo1le have to b.
looked after or the children do not
get square deal. County Clerk |
Fisher said he had taublated the diff
ferent kinds OF expenses that make |
up the total of our tax and he finds
that the cost Of conducting the diff
ferent Offices run from Is cents to
rs cents or 80 cents in most cases
The read the tabulations) and that
the cost Of taking care Of the charit-
les was "a cents, this based on ST.
600 of taxable property. For in
stance, the cost of maintaining the
probate judges office and all ex-
penses connected with It is 16 cents
on each $1,000 worth of assessed
but for each 16 cents ex-
pended in the probate judges de-
partment, we expend "a cents on
charity and that is one of the big
items in the total of taxes. 1t is
mounting rapidly to higher and
higher costs every year, having
gained 400 per cent in ten years.
Some one stated that the unfortun-
ate thing about it is that lot of this
money that is expended for charity
goes to people who are not deserving
II charity. Some of them get the
dea that when the state or county
Jays for thing that nobody in par
ocular has It to pay and that they
night as we'll get it and squander It
because 1t comes free from some
where. 1t was stated that the poor
'eople are not the only ones that I
hare in such fool ideas as that. An a
was mentioned of an ap- T
arently very we'll educated and we'll 4
ualified school teacher, number s
I years ago discussing the subject u
I buying all school books out of the n
ublic treasury and supplying the
upils. Objection was made to it b
n the ground that they did not take n