The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-15
LOCAL BRANCH
NEEDS $1,000
Public Nursing Service Drive In
augurated to Raise Sufficient
Funds for Year.
WORK GREATLY APPRECIATED

Lie luldo Ill lht lltd0uly VI LIN
P~leasantville Branch of Red Cross are
low, and the Committee in charge of
the sole activity of the local Branch,
the Nursing Service, is obliged to ap-
peal to the general public for financial
aid to carry on it's work. This appeal,
which will be in the mails Wednesday,
is an appeal for help, enthusiastic and
whole hearted support, and no matter
what the contribution may be, large or
small, it will carry encouragement
and hope to the committee that the
P~leasantville Nursing Service will be
maintained and aid continued to our
less fortunate neighbors in sickness.
In September the Nursing Service
will commence its fifth year of work,
that it has been successful is witness
ed by the warm welcome and contin-
ued confidence of the many suffering
ones ministered to by the nurse, and
the many calls by the doctors to at
tend their patients. The esteem in
which the service is held and the place
the nurse holds in the hearts and
homes of those she serves, is eyidenc-
ed by the many recalls she receives.
The nurse in charge, Miss Mary
Reddig, tells of many interesting and
pathetic phases of her work, showing
good reason for the support and ap-
probation of the nursing service; she
has mentioned a few of the past year.
The many mothers and babies to
whom she has given nursing and in
structive care, the older children
whom She has taken to clinics and
hospitals for examination, treatment
or operation, as outstanding is the
case of a boy with failing sight, taken
to the Atlantic City Hospital for sew
eral operations on his eyes, then for
months carried once or twice a week
TO the hospital for treatments, finally
glasses fitted and furnished by Red
Cross. Other instances of two famil-
les, in isolated county districts, whose
wage earners, the fathers, were re-
moved by death. One family with 7
children, one of which was born soon
after the fathers death, the second, a
family of eleven children, only two
old enough to work, briefly told, the
nurse on her visits encouraged and
helped in many ways these mothers;
the health of the children is being
looked after, and advice and other aid
given.
There are many older folks confined
TO house or bed by chronic illness
who look forward to the visits of the
nurse and her comforting ministra-
tons to break the monotony of tedious
days and weeks. But most important
is the continual search for and dis
coVery of suspected cases of tubercu-
losis, entailing many visits for instruc-
tion, long patient work for many
weeks, perhaps, to persuade the af-
ficted ones to go to a clinic for exam
ination or to the sanatorium for care,
and a very important work is the fol-
low up of the patients discharged from
the hospitals and sanatoriums to see
that they are continuing to improve
and are following the rules of right
and healthful living.
The 1922 report issued by the Com
mittee sketches in the barest detail
the work accomplished by the nurses,
and the small mount spent in main
tenance in 1922 does not measure up
to the good accomplished in the %
communities served.
This is not a charity that the COM
munity is called upon to support,
though where calls for the nurse are
made and the parties are unable to
pay, little Oh no fees are charged, but
it is a service for all, who need the
skilled treatment, prescribed by phys
icians, which only a trained nurse can
give.
All the funds raised through contri-
buttons or otherwise will be used ex-
elusively for the maintenance ser
vice. $1,000 is the minimum that the
Committee hopes to realize from the
appeal sent out. The Ford ear, now
in use for two years, must be replaced,
II the nurse is to make her rounds eff
fciently, the expenses of rent, auto
mobile maintenance, telephone, cleo
trio light and heat, supplies, ehhergen-
cies and the salary of Office clerk must
be met, and it is with confidence that
the committee once more appeals to
the generosity of the friends and sup
porters of the Red Cross.
The officers and committee of the
Pleasantville Branch include the fol-
lowing:
Officers: John S. Weaver, Acting
Chairman; Louis D. Champion, Secre-
tary; George H. Adams, Treasurer;
George w. Leech.
Committee on Nursing Activities:
Mrs. Martha Munro, Chairman; Mrs.
E. G. Shreve, Acting Chairman; Mrs.
M. NJ. Townsend, Secretary; Mrs. D.
S. LeCompte, Treasurer; Mrs. Sher-
wood Risley, Mrs. Scott Long, Mrs.
Victor Jagmetty, Mrs. R. L. Race, Mrs.
J. G. Scull, Mrs. Carl Hopf, Mrs. T.
H. Smith, Clark Adams, Robert NJ.
Willis, J. o. Herr, George Banning,
c. NJ. Kesler, Walter w. Whitman.