Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-29
SPEAKERS IN CHURCHES FOR
 UNITED WORKERS CAMPAIGN

The appeal of the United Workers for funds for their work, which is to be ! pushed in a campaign here in the first | week of November, will be presented by | speakers in the churches of the city Sunday.
 The following will be the speakers and places:
 Mrs. Albert H. Chase at the United Congregational church and at the Mo Kinley Avenue A. NJ. E. Zion church Mrs. Charming M. Huntington at the Central Baptist church and at Trinity Methodist; Mrs. Frank A. Mitchell at the Nit. Calvary Baptist and the First Bap- tist; Miss Louise B. Meech at the Uni versalist church Mrs. James A. Bidwell at Taftville Congregational; Mrs. Will jam A. Norton at Park Congrega tional and the First Congregational churches i; Miss Nancy Lucas at GreeneTille Con- gregationaf: Rev. R. R. Graham at Christ Episcopal; Rev. J. Eldred Brown | at Trinity Episcopal; Rev. M. Mclean | Goldie at Yantic Episcopal.
 One of the departments of the United l Workers Is the public health nursing, whose work and development since it was organized in 1916 with one staff nurse | for general district nursing, is describ- | ed as follows by an officer of the Unit l ed Workers:
 Since 19l6,- in response to definite com munity needs, the public health nursing department has expanded until it em- ploys a superintendent and three staft nurses, maintains two free clinics, and in addition to the regular nursing visits makes tuberculosis, prenatal, hourly | Metropolitan and clinic calls; the use of two Ford coupes enables the nurses to cover the three large districts within [ hA irnit of ha eT1a | ment cannot but mean increased ex.
 pense. In the first year of it's existenct the department cost s1,37s; in the nint months past of the present year the ex
 pense has mounted to S6,072. The hourl!
 and the Metropolitan, and the full-pay
 calls are self-supporting. but the part
 pay and free visits and the constructive
 preventive work of the department make
 up the greater part of its service and
 must be financed.
 Such agencies as the nursing depart .ment, with their programme of instrue
 tion and prevention, are responsible fol
 the gain that is being made, in communi
 ty health it is the duty of each individ
 ual to see that progress is not hampereC
 by lack of appreciation. The fact tha'
 in the past twenty years the infan
 death rate in Connecticut has been GU
 in half is most encouraging. but shal
 we be content while babies die at th'
 rate of eighty-seven per thousand,
 It is the aim of the department tt bring every child of pre-school age il
 contact with the public health nurses. tl have every expectant mother receive pre- natal instructions. Friends of the nurs
 ing service will not be willing 10 SC work so vital, so effective handicappe' | by lack of funds: yet the local work ha grown far beyond it's income and unles , pu;,lic support is both generous and con } stant. retrenchment must come.
 . Would you have. the work. for childre l stop. or the fight against tuberculosis Would you have the hourly service dis { continued. or the prenatal instruction |. Try to imagine what it would mean | { Norwich tc lose the nursing service. th c corps of trained nurses ready 10 me' . tho sudden emergency and the every-da = problem of he:s.h. Directly or indirect c ly. the work of the public health nur' ing department concerns every househoi I In the city. it's influence reaches far an n wide throughout the community; sha s we not seize the opportunity to. sho
 the measure of cur appreciation In col | dial response. To the canvassers- VI
 will present the cause of the Unite VI Workers during the coming week!