The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-08-16
Soon To Launch
Financial Drive
Local Red Cross Hopes to Secure
Sufficient Funds to Support
Work For Coming Year.

The Pleasantville Branch of the Am
erican Red Cross, under whose auspi-
ces the County Nursing Service has
been carried on along the Shore for
nearly five years, is about to launch
the annual appeal for funds to support
the work. This service is for every
class, race or creed, and as there are
many who cannot pay for the nursing
care given them, 1t Is necessary for
the Committee in charge to raise funds
to maintain the service exclusive of
the salary which is provided by an
appropriation through the Board of
Freeholders.
The Pleasantville Nursing District
covers the territory from Port Repub-
lie to Somers Point and English Creek,
extending several miles inland from
the Shore Road. Plenty of work is
provided for the nurse, Miss Alta
brow, who cared for 81 patients in the
month of July, making 263 visits, on
duty not only during her regular hours
but giving 20 hours over time to real
emergency calls.
The Baby Clinic, which is held on
the last Wednesday of every month at
st. Marks parish house;,i is the newest
activity of the Nursing Service, and
one that is growing in interest and
Importance.
Enclosed with each letter of appeal
is a statistical report of the work done
in 1923, but it does not tell of the
many emergencies the nurse has been
called upon to meet, the many cases
where material relief was needed and
given, and the visits bringing comfort
and encouragement in addition to good
nursing care, which have helped SO
many patients along the road to re-
covery.
During 1928 the number of patients
under are was 244; of these ITS paid
no fees; 78S bedside nursing visits
were made; 165 visits to those suffer
ing with tuberculosis, and 667 social
service and advisory visits, a total of
1920 visits for the year.
Many patients were taken to clinics
for examination and others placed in
hospitals and sanatoria. The Nursing
Service has had splendid cooperation
with the Atlantic City Hospital, Chill
dren,s Seashore House, Pine Rest,
County Probation Officer and the ply
sicians in the district served by the
nurse.
The receipts for the year were
$2922.36 &, and the expenditures $2424.46,
leaving a balance at the beginning of
the year of $497.9 80, which has main
tanned tie overhead EXPENSES Of cent.
ONCE secretary and upkeep OF auto
mobile UP to date. The Red Cross
Nursing Committee is anxious to con-
tinue the same high standard of the
work which has brought the unquali-
fed endorsement of Commissioner
Lewis, of the State Department of
Institutions and Agencies, after a thor
ough investigation of the work and
records of the ~Pleasantville Nursing
Service.
The members of the Committee are
hoping that the appeal will meet with
the same generous response as last
year so that they may carry on for
another twelve months without anxi-
ETY. as to finances. The members of
the committee are: Mrs. Martha Mum
70, chairman; Mrs. E. G.. Shreve, act
ing chairman; Mrs. M. M. Townsend,
secretary; Mrs. D. S. LeCompte, treas
urer; Mrs. Sherwood Risley, Mrs. Scott
Long, Mrs. Jictor Jagmetty, Mrs. R. L.
Race, Mrs. James G. Scull. Mrs. Carl
Hopf, Clark Adams, Robert M. Willis.
J.. o. Herr, Walter w. Whitman, Geo.
Banning, C. NJ. Kesler.