The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-03
Work of FOrestaMing the
Menace of Child Disease

studying and rcclting. In the win
ter time, bricks are heated and put
ut their feet, and they wear the
warm sweaters and helmets and
mittens knitted for them. Next
year. City Superintendent r.. Il. OBJ
erholtzer has told the nurses. they
arc TO have electric foot-Warmcrs
during the winter months. Lunches
are served to the children twice a
day; these are in no sense regular
meals, Miss Richardson pointed out,
and are intended to supplomcn mt the
regular meals by giving the children
the extra nOurishmcnt Of Just the
kind they need. to build tn IN up.
Tragedy enters into this work some
times; one man told his smal! boy,
who is in the outdoors school. that
since he had so much to eat there,
he could eat less at home" SO here
is real problem In this little fellow.
one child has been as much as l9
pounds underweight. Others are 12,
II, 10 and so forth. Failure TO
build them up is a serious thing,
and will inevitably develop disease.
No open cases of tuberculosis are
in the school, at all; such cases de-
mand home treatment and II Is only
an undernourished condition that
may in sOmc cases mean incipient
cases of tuberculosis that gives a
child entry into the school. SO
many hours OF rest every day, so
much milk and vegetables and good
nourishing soups so much study,
and always the fresh air, no matter
what the weather. rain or shine or
warm or cold. And they all OF them
thrive under the regime.
- ~ -.
his name be not made known gave
to each one Of the children last win
ter an outfit OF clothes, for the girls,
a warm dress, underwear, shoes and
coat each, for the boys. an equally
warm suit, Oyercoat underwear and
shoes each.
And YOU can't know" said Miss
Richardson, what a godsend that
was 10 US"
one can imagine pretty well, after
a few hours spent with these two
wonderful women in their wonder
ful work. No more complete devo-
ton to their work 10 the forgetful-
ness OF themselves can be imagined
than that with which they go about
their days work that is altogether
and all the time for somebody else.
Their work at the tuberculosis clinic
at the corner Of Eleventh ana Boul-
der Is the smallest part OF the gigau-
tic task they have mapped out for
themselves. For instance: The
other day there were five children
TO be operated upon for removal
OF tonsils tAnd by the way,
the physicians and dentists OF
Tulsa are wonderfully interested
and always generous with their time
and services in this work, both VI less
Richardson ana Miss Swanson say
They had 10 be at the hospital at
o'clock. They lived in different parts
of Tulsa, and Miss Richardson and
Miss Swanson, rising at o'clock In
order to get breakfast, get out the'r
car and gather up the yOungsters,
worked all morning long with these
cases. Back at the clinic, a message
received saying that Jules Shevitz,
state official, would be In at !
o'clock. There was much TO do and
discuss with him outside the regular
run Of work, so much OF that must
he done outside OF hours. 1t was
o'clock before the last bit OF work
that had to be done that day was
finished. The trouble Is that tho
field is too tremendously big for tho
small corps of workers now in it,
There is so much more to be done
that workers and money avalla BILE
can DO.
In tho first place. their work as
tuberculosis nurses confronts them
with problems In sickness and ma
terial aid that arc obviously out