Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-02-28

cured, as DR.. Waller states, pupIlc
health nurses for fifteen different
counties. We hope the department
will secure nurses for every coun-
ty, with whom the Child Welfare
Service can cooperate. School
nurses and county school nurses
who only deal with children are
under the department of education,
where they belong in this state.
The Child Welfare Service is under
the department of education. We
hope to work through all these
forces, which are not especially
the agents of the department OF
health. They are agents of the
people of New Mexico, paid by
county funds. The school nurses
and county school nurses are paid
from school funds. The depart
ment of education will give GER
tlficates to child welfare workers,
who will meet the requirements Of
the Child Welfare Service. They
win be paid out Of school funds.
The women OF New Mexico are
responsible in great measure for
the sentiment which procures the
funds to pay the nurses. The great
efficiency of the Red Cross in this
state is due to the women of New
Mexico. If it were not for them,
there would be no funds available
for Red Cross nurses. DR.. Waller
made this statement: I'VE are
practically running our child n.y.
giene division on Ded Cross funds. .
What the Women Have Done.
There would be no Sheppard
Towner bill before the congress of
the United States II 1t were not for
the women of the United States.
The women of the country feel
they have earned the right to adj
minister this fund. The construc-
tive vision of Miss Julia Lathrop,
chief of the children's bureau, will
be practically wiped out in this
state if the work is left to the
health department alone.
DR.. Waller states in the Santa Fe
New Mexican that ''it would be
necessary for the child welfare de-
partment to conduct training
school to secure expert workers
while we can pick them up fully
equipped outside the state" The
child welfare service can secure its
workers within the state. Physi-
clans, teachers. nurses and social
workers who have been in the state
many years can be secured.
Through our great educational de-
l7partment every rural district can
be reached and with few months
training at the Santa Fe head
quarters building workers will be
fully equipped. To teach Spanish
to outside nurses would be an UNI
Unsuitable expense and waste of
time, and we would have no assur-
ance that these nurses will remain
in the state. Spanish alone would
be of little assistance. Those who
instruct mothers and midwives
must know intimately the lives OF
the people.
Untechnical Instruction.
The Sheppard Towner bill lays
special stress on unteehnical in
struction through state university,
land grant colleges. public health
nurses, consultation centers, etc.
Such a consultation center we have
in Santa Fe, which is the gift of
the people of the state to be used
only for children. In other words
children's bureau. which every
mother and child will look to for
protection.
The maternity hospital in Santa
Fe has been definitely cut out by
the provisions of the Sheppard
Towner bill. We never intended
to have a general maternity hos
pital. such as DR.. Waller describes,
conducted at such enormous cost
He also states that an institute Tor
child welfare workers at the child
welfare headquarters will be I'M
practical. That such an institute
! is practical has been proven. Dur