The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-10-12
HEALTH MEMBERSHIP
COUNTY DRIVE ON

Inc DaraRa SOuHCy hediln hsSo-
ciaticn is putting on an intensive
membership campaign for the next
few days throughout the county to
provide funds to continue the nurs-
ing service in the county. Commit
tees are working under the direction
Of the vice-chairman in each commun-
ity and will make thorough canvass
for the 5000 members which is the
aim of the association.
This action was decided upon at a
meeting of the association held Sep
tember 10 in L'Anse which was the
elimination of meetings held in diff
ferent parts of the county by Mrs.
Fulcher of the State Department of
Health and Miss Knevels, district
nurse.
During the past two years the nurs-
ing service was financed by the Bara-
ga County tuberculosis Society thru
seal sales, personal subscriptions and
from money from various other sourc-
es. The tuberculosis society will con-
tinue to function as an organization
and will cooperate with the Health
association, but it is believed it's nec-
essarily more limited scope prevents
it from doing all the Health associa-
tion can do in the future in the coun-
ty and so the new organization was
started. Though the nurse has been
working under the authority and su-
pervision of the tuberculosis society,
she has been doing general public
health work, giving special attention
to the schools. The little Ford coupe
provided and maintained by the board
Of supervisors has been a familiar
sight in the rural districts.
In the limited time the worl, has
been carried on much good has been
accomplished along the many lines
of endeavor-the goitre treatment for
school children in several townships,
work in the schools, assisting in the
several clinics held by the State De-
partment of Health in the county with.
the large attendance secured by the
advance work of the nurse and local
physicians, the assistance given dur
ing the diphtheria, scarlet fever and
typhoid epidemics which threatened,
follow-up work in tuberculosis cases,
talks before societies and the thou
sand and enc things public health
nurse finds to do.
The county has reached the place
where it finds the work of public
health nurse indispensable. The funds
available have been exhausted and the
few people who have carried the bur-
den of responsibility in the past be-
lieve the general public will rally to
the support cf the work if the facts
are presented to it and the needs
made known.
If you believe in this work and wish
to see it continued, now is your op-.
portunity to help by taking member
ship in the Baraga County Health As
sociation. If the solicitor should miss
you, send your name and dollar to
your local vice-chairman.
The officers are as follows:
County Chairman, Miss Elna Mel
son.
Secretary, j. Edward Clements.
Treasurer, T. d. Tracy.
Local e-chairmen-Mrs. Charles
Kelsey, L'Anse; Mrs. Albert E.
Payne, Baraga; Mrs. E. d. Paquette,
Keweenaw Bay; Miss Emma Hara,
Pelkie; Mrs. Alma Ollila, Walton,
Mrs. H. B. Willman, Covington; Mrs.
Alvin Richards, Imperial Mine; Mrs.
]. T. Been, Skanee; Mrs. Hawkins,
Pequaming.
Publicity Committee-Miss Lucille
Lawler, Keweenaw Bay; Miss Myrtle
Giddings, Keweenaw Bay; Mrs. STEM
son, Covington; Miss Adamson, Wat
ton; Mrs. Clarence Bjork, Spur; Mrs
Chas. H. Anderson, L'Anse, Miss
Pauline Hartvigh, Skanee; Mrs. West
berg, Pequaming.
Finance Committee-L. G.. Hillyer,
Baraga; F. ]. Lyons, LAnse; Herbert
Cook, Keweenaw Bay; Swande Godell,
Walton; Chas. Hutula, Covington;
Martin King, Spur: Mr.. Freeman,