Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-07-22
Photo by William showel ellis.

Hundreds of children were examined
by the nurses of the Child Welfare
Centres during the past six months,
and If present plans work out, there
will soon be more work done among
the children of the State by various
agencies than ever before. The latest
bulletin of the Child Welfare Conlruis-
sion reports that from January / to
June 80, 1904 visits were made by
children 10 the city centres. 1883 by
children who had never been TO a
health centre before, and 3,646 TO the
rural centres. 20 of these being first
visits. The eight city nurses and two
lay workers made 1S,05S visits to
homes, visiting 2.o12 for the first time,
and the nine rural nurses made 5,102
visits, of which l402 We're new. In
served and assisted physicians in ex-
addition, the rural nurses have OBJ
aiming 1894 school children.
Mere examination Of school children
does not complete the work. The
Georgetown Centre reports that fol-
lowing health talks to 44i school chill
dren in the county and $40 in the
Georgetown schools, there was a
marked interest in health, which was
manifested in the children's calling at
the centres to be weighed and
measured and reporting 10 the nurses
that they were obeying health rules
One little first grade child announced
that he had two glasses of milk for
supper and three glasses for breakfast
before coming TO school and that for
the first time he liked milk. The older
boys and girls have promised to obey
the health rules themselves and to APP
point themselves a committee of one
each to be responsible for getting q
child in their own families or a neigh
Dor up TO normal weight by fall.
Another interesting piece of WORK
done by the nurse was the providing o.
a crutch for an eleven-year- boy
who walked two and one-half miles L
school every day. using a tree branch
for a crutch and the crotch of tn,
branch as a resting place for his arm
pit. When with the cooperation o
the Red Cross he was given a crutch
the delighted boy remarked that tn,
crutch was as good to him as a new
leg. a parade Of children in George
town on July 8 stimulated interest Il
the health centre so that over 200 ne,
children have registered.
At the meeting of the State Fedora
. ton of Women's Clubs, the followin
: resolutions were adopted regardin
child welfare work:
: Whereas, There exist in Delawai
q. a number of child-caring agencie
:. some of which function through publ
J, funds, others through public and pr
= vate, and others through priva
funds, and
= Whereas, There is a general col
= fusion and misunderstanding on Il
/. part of the public to the nature al
, character of work that each agency
n performing, and.
; Whereas, Each society is trying
, promote normal lives and relieve co
e ditions of children that create po
health, cruel treatment and unhapl
homes, the products of which fill o
= almshouses, jails and reformatori,
20 and
- Whereas, In spite of the closest a
A. sociations and spirit of Cooperate
D on the part Of each organization,
y workers find many gaps in the CHI
B. dren's work Of the State, with viii
responsibility no public agency
a. charged 10 perform; therefore, be il
Resolved, That the Delaware Sta