The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-13
MONTHLY REPORTS
OUTLINE ACTIVITIES
OF SOCIAL SERVICE

The January meeting of the board Of
directors of the Social Service bureau
was held in the Y. NJ C. A. at noon
Friday. Reports for the month of De-
cember covering all activities of the
board were presented by Miss S. Ethel
Clark, executive secretary.
A total of 524 calls for relief were
received by the bureau, not includ-
ing the Red Cross and home service
work. Families receiving aid num-
Der 205
The Christmas clearing department
served 60 organizations, which cared
for 323 families or 1858 persons on
Christmas day, the report showed.
The organizations taking care of fam
lilies were: Elks lodge, 100; Delta
| Theta Tau. Is; Brotherhood of Rail
way Carmen, 10; Beebe Glove com
pany, 10.
Unions Contribute
The carpenters and plumbers unions
gave $40 each, which was used to
buy clothes for a boy and a girl who
are attending school.
Money received from a card party
given by Mrs. Henry Goldfinger, was
used to make up Christmas packages
for 1856 children. The Rotary club
cared for the rent bills of PIG families
for one month each. The checks were
! distributed on Christmas day with a
card bearing the name of the club.
| Rent contributions from the Y M
! c. A. dormitory residents amounted
| to $4525. The Atlas Underwear com
pany gave 5000
! Toys and food and other supplies
were turned over by the First Eng.
! lish Lutheran Sunday school.
Eliminate DupIicity
! Miss S. Ethel Clark assisted in the
Christmas Seal campaign by acting as
treasurer.
Some habitual gift takers" were not
entirely satisfied with the maner in
which the clearing house system of the
/ bureau operated to eliminate duplicity
Miss Clark reported For a week fol
I lowing Christmas complaints were re
ceived from families which had re
ceived Christmas baskets from several
sources in past years that this year
! they were not well taken care of.
Invariably these reports were found
/ to be unfounded, but the families
which had received too much in the
past were merely cut down to theil
! just amount
The work of the cleanup squad in
! this city was reported on, as was the
Red Cross report for the month. Eighty
calls were received at this Office in
/ December, it was stated Relief given
totaled $247S6.
Following are the monthly reports OF
some of the departments of the bu
reau:
School work-The statistical repor
of the nursing department shows thai
Miss Jones and Miss Daub, spen
114a hours in the examination o.
school children and that 82S children
were examined with the doctor ant
77S without the doctor The notices
written by the nurses to parents abou
the defects totaled $40. Fighter
hours were spent in teaching schoo
classes.
General Nursing-Five hundred ant
thirty-siX home visits were made b.
the nurses during the month. Thest
visits included, bedside nursing, inves
LEGATION, instruction, prenatal and chill
welfare work.
z Baby Clinic-Baby clinics were he'll
= each Friday afternoon during Decem
Der at the headquarters of the bureau
DR.. Kruger and two of the bureau
nurses were in attendance. While tn
= attendance has not been large it is be
! lieved that the clinics are quite wort
; while, although no special effort wa
: made to work up the attendance i
= December.
Veneral Disease Clinic-The report
show that the attendance at the venel
: al disease clinic, remains about til
! same. Five new patients were admi
: ted for treatment in December TIL
number of visits TO the clinic 70
} treatment totaled 15S. At the end c
; the month 14S men and 81 wome
? were under treatment.
Red Cross Nursing plan al
proved by the board relative to one c
the bureaus nurses spending two day
a week in the county for the Wayn
county chapter. American Red eros.
was put in operation In Decembe
Miss Daub is doing the work. Coz
siderable interest has been shown i
the Modern Health Crusade movemer
by the children throughout the count
2 and requests have come from some {
I the schools for the medical examin;
5 ton of children.