Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-11


 1922 . .... .S1,765.S7
 Nursing Activities.
 The report of the nursing activities committee for the year ending Oct. Sl' 1922, is made as follows by Mrs Frances E. Tingley. chairman of the committee:
 The chief activity of the nursing ac' tivities committee this year was the or ganization of classes in home hygiene and care of the sick. Ever since the war there has been an ever-increasins demand for more knowledge along these lines, and it is the aim and earnest de- sire of the Red Cross to make this course available to all women, wherever possible. This has been difficult task especially in the rural sections, because of a lack of suitable instructors. Last November, however, through the Nor wich, Jewett City and Plainfield chap ters, cooperating, plan was worked out by which they jointly financed the expense of a travelling instructor, graduate registered nurse who devoted her entire time to the teaching of | classes in home nursing. Each chap- ter and branch contributed in propor- tio Into the number of classes held in their territory. The organization ot these classes was carried on by each local nursing chairman or chapter rep resentatfve in cooperation with Miss Edith Rockwell, Norwich chapter execu- | tive secretary, Mrs. Walter M. Bucking ham, chairman of auxiliartes and branches, and the chairman of the nuTs' ing activities committee. Eleven class es were organized and Miss Lydis Coakley, R. N, of New York. recom' mended by the Atlantic division, begar 1 her duties as travelling instructor or February first and completed the worl June first. Glasses were held in Plain field. Jewett City, Danielson, Canter- bury, Gales Ferry. Baltic and Norwich On the whole the classes were very sue cessful and much appreciated. Of thu one hundred students enrolled in ale Norwich classes, fifty received certih cates.
 Public Health Nursing.
 AS your representative on the advis ory board of the department of healu for that part of the health work whici
 pertains to the school children, it ha
 been my pleasure to attend all th' monthly meetings except one. A denta hygienist was secured and added to tn staff of health workers early in Marcl and is doing splendid worH. Because was impossible to secure more than one the $6bO voted Dy the fSeu SFOSS SAoSH
 tive committee to help finance secon' hygienist was not called for by Dr
 Thompson. Miss Margaret K. Stack o
 Hartford, state director of public heale nursing, upon invitation of the advisor!
 board has spent some time in Norvica
 this fall, going over the entire field O
 school nursing, and her report contain ing valuable suggestions will be at han'
 shortly. Important changes have takei
 place in the nursing staff, the personne
 of the board and in the position of tow health officer. pr. George Thompson
 who has held this position for ffteel ! years, resigned in September, and Dl 'iE. J. Brophy accepted the appo, men
 in November It will be remembere'
 that when the direction of heakh wori
 in the schools was transferred from tn board of education to the town healt ! officer two years ago it was for tn purpose of making the health wori favailable to all the children of the cit and town, thus broadening its scops The process of broadening brought in creased responsibility and innumerabl details of Reorganization had to b worked out Dr. Thompson has beer
 most faithful in the performance c
 these extra duties thrust upon him b
 virtue of his position as town health of [ hcer, and with the help of his advisor | board each year considerable progres N