Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-10
u Relief Work Done
by the LOcdE Red Cross
Service Report Shows

were properly housed and furnished
with fur niture and clothing. The
fact that the Red Cross was on the
ground ready to assist where assist
ance WIS reeded and to give these
people encouragement helped, we
believe, TO make them feel that
things might have beer worse and
we believe, the help rendered gave
them a rev incentive to 5egic again.
This year we have continued our
interest IN the crippled children
and also in children who Leeded
treatment for their eyes and ears.
Thirty-four trips have been made to
the home for Crippled Children
in Newark and twelve trips
TO the Newark Eye ard
Ear 1rflrmary; ten visits
have been made to DR.. Mann in
Perth AfEboy, three trips to DR..
Eagleton.i a specialist in Newark.
Both of these physicians have given
their services free. At the clinic
three children received trusses, ten
casts were put on and fourteen
braces repaired; there was one
complete cure; six Of our children
were given hospital care ror several
weeks at a time-one boy having
been at the hospital for a year and
a half and three of our children be-
ing there at the present tin e; there
have been ninety-three examina-
tons; in all thirty-eight different
children were examined, thirteen of
which were new cases.
Among the crippled children who
were taken to the clinic in Newark
was a little boy, two years old, who
had i~nfantile paralysis. His mother
had taken him to several physicians
but non of them seemed to help
him. The case was reported to our
visitor by the tuberculosis nurse.
After an investigation in the home
the mother of the child consented
that we take him to the Home for
Crippled Children in Newark. DR..
Holden, the specialist there, advised
having three massage treatments a
week and that the child wear brac-
es. An agreement was made between
the mother and our visitor that each
pay half of the SO a week necessary
for the treatments. This was lone
for several weeks. When We again
took the boy to the clinic DR.. Hol-
den was very much pleased by the
improvement and progress made by
the treatments.
Another case is that of a girl who
was taken to the hospital because
she had a crooked neck. DIR. Holden
put a collar case on her and she re-
turned home. About ten days later
our visitor learned the mother had
removed the cast from the girls
neck as she said it did not Look nice.
Our visitor explained to the mother
the great harm she had done by so
doing and was finally permitted to
take the girl again to the home for
crippled children. with the under
standing thai she could be left there
for treatment. The doctors at the
hospital said she could be cured
without an operation and the girl
improved rapidly under the treat
ment there. On Sundays the father
went to see the girl and was really
very abusive to the nurses. He fin
ally took the girl home. Cases CT
this kind are not only difficult to
deal with but are most discouraging.
Perhaps one of the most encour-
| aging cases we have had was that CT
a young girl who had a deformity.
We took her to the Home for Grip
| pied Children and left her for treat
ment. The operation was a great
success. She was put in a cast which
was kept on for three months. When
the cast was removed her deform-
ity was gone and she was a well girl.
An interesting case vas that CT a
four year old girl whom we took
from the city hospital, where she
had been treated to the Home for
Crippled Children in Newark. The
child could not walk when taken
there. After an operation was per-
formed she was left there for treat
ment. Four months later Mary was
brought home in a cast, but able to
walk fairly well. When our visitor
reached Perth Amboy and took the
child to her home she learned that
the mother and, in fact, the entire
family had moved up into New York
state and left no instructions as to
what should be done with theAchild
when she should leave the hospital.
AS there was no n whom our Wis
itor felt she could leave the child
with, she took Mary to the Commun-
ity House and there kept her for a
week before the Red Cross was Die
to locate the mother and have her
come for the child. We often find
it most convenient that our visitor
happens to be the house mother
of the Community House.
The Perth Amboy Chapter also
co-operates with the Day Nursery.
Our visitor takes the children from
there to the Free Dental Clinic
when their teeth need attention.
The success she makes of this most
difficult piece of work. is quite sur
prising. She takes the children first
for a walk, then through the five
and ten cent store. permitting each
to buy any one thing which pleases
him. BY the time she reaches the
clinic and has talked of pleasant
things TO them on their trip she has
them so we'll trained and in such a
mood that they get into the chair
and permit the dentist to care for
their teeth without any difficulty.
The other day she brought two of
them into our office after they had
been to the dentist. Two happier
children could not be found.
This report is only an outline of
the service rendered by the Perth
Amboy Chapter, American Red
Cross. "At the service of all man
kind"
Mrs. Adrian Lyon, chairman of
Home Service; Axel Olsen, chapter