The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-08-03
TONS|L CLINIC WAS
VERY SUCCESSFUL

Our Tonsil Clinic closed Sunday
afternoon with the discharge of the
last patients, and Doctors, Nurses,
parents and friends breathed sigh
of relief and thankfulness 1t has
been a remarkable demonstration of
what a community can do for the inn
provement of general health. Sixty
two operations on patients ranging
from two and half years to eighteen
years, on throats in all degrees of
| diseases and on patients who were
stout, and ti:in; healthy, and very
unhealthy; some pale and anaemic and
| some with throats so bad that solid
food could hardly be, swallowed, gave
thorough test to the skill of the
Specialist employed and also to the
! skill and care Of the nursing force.
1t seems remarkable that the Clinic
could be finished without any serious
illness and with no patient staying
more than two days, and all, when dis
| charged, being out of danger and in
| shape for rapid recovery.
DR.. G. E. Crosby made many friends
while in Manning, not only because of
his professional skill, but also by his
unfalling courtesy and his solicitious
care of all Of his patients. He neg
that everything needed was done and
| that they were in good condition be-
fore they were allowed to leave the
building.
DR.. F.. B. kneece now in Public
Health Service at Newberry and
| specia' trained in such operations ad-
; ministcred the anesthetic to the full
satisfaction of our physicians, all of
! whom saw him work.
Particular praise should also be
given to the nursing force, which was
thoroughly organized and ran as
smoothly as if it was a machine that
had been running for years instead of
| hastily assembled force for the oc-
casion. This is not so remarkable
when we consider the nature of the
history of the Nurses-all of whom
are highly trained and of long exper-
ience. Miss Moore of Cincinnati,
Ohio, our own Red Cross Nurse, has
had years of experience both as a pri-
| vatc nurse and as public health
Nurse, having served in the latter ca
pacity for several years in Cincinnati
| before coming horc. Nurses in the
Public Health service are obliged to
| be women of initiative and ability as
their work is generally among the
poor and without facilities they are
/ y.
| give instructions about the care of the
sick, endeavor to correct unhygicnic
conditions that would interfere with
recovery and do a multitude of things
OF which the average person is ignor-
ant. Under these circumstances it is
no wonder that they arc 4 picked body
of women. Two of the Nurses were
in the Public IIcalth Service of Flor
cnce County. Miss Smith, graduate
of Fayett"vill" Hospital, with fifteen
years experience in private nursing,
now Public Health Nurse at lake
City. Miss Blake, 4 native of this
J State, for many years private nurse
! engaged iii this State and North Caro-
lima, and who has been for sometime
at Timmonsville. Miss Campbell, the
State Supervising Nurse of the Bu-
reau Of Child Hygiene and Public
Health Nursing, is Il Scotch woman
with a delightful bur in hc.' soft voice.
She is a bundle of nervous energy
and had some trouble convincing some
of the mothers that patients needed
absolute rest and quiet at night so
that they could sleep. These matters,
however, were handled tactfully and
to the satisfaction of all parties con-
cerncd She received her training in
Glasgow, Scotland; was for several
| SS"ic uDii1 llSliIh 4NuIS Sc Ill van
Couvcr, Canada, and came to South
Carolina from Texas. Miss Murphy
of Virginia district supervisor is
quiet, courteous, charming southern
gcntlewoman. With father and
three brothers physicians it was ma
tural for her to take up the care of
the sick. In tn days from our entry
into the War she was in France where
for two years she was in charge of a
British evacuation hospital close to
the Hmdenburg line, with 120 beds
filled with wounded and gasscd sol
dicrs, assisted part of the time by
! only one other nurse and two orderlics
her work was trying to soul and
body. DR.. Crosby brought Miss Me
Kinney, his regular operating Nurse,
with him. She claims to be an old
maid. and if so, we thank the Lord
for old maids. Always jolly and new
cr seeming to tire, she carefully stcril-
lied every instrument after every
operation, and during the operations
the Doctor found each instrument i'm
his hands just when he needed it, She
is an invaluable assistant.
We have written fully Of these
! Nurses, heretofore unknown, or only
slightly known. And now we come to
the volunteers to whom the Clicinc
owes much of its success. AS Chair
men Of two Of the Committees of pre-
paration, Mrs. Brockington and Mrs
r. ID. Clark did very hard work all of
the previous week, making prcpara-
tion and purchasing needed supplies.
| Thpn thay toolt hold op1 did 90 Y,,,,b