Evening star., 1924-11-02
HARRIS TO ASSIST
NURSES CAMPAIGN
Base Ball Leader Says He Is
Strong for Fund Raising
to Push D. c. Work.

Bucky Harris has agreed to serve
as chairman of the mems committee
in connection with the Instructive
Visiting Nurse Society's campaign for
$4,000 which opens November II.
The members of his committee are
K. NJ. Kaufman. vice chairman;
Joshua Evans, c. Melvin Sharpe, p. ].
OConnor. Maj Oscar Solbert, Mont
gomery Blair. II. Prescott Galley.
Hugh Roland. Donald Woodward,
John Dolph, Isaac Cans, Rorsey Rich
ardson, Roland Robbins, John Ihlder.
Emile Berliner. Ord Preston, Or.
James +. Mitchell. c. I. Corby, j. j.
Bartram, Dr. Harvey w. Wiley, DR..
!. W. Laird. Eliot Wadsworth, Henry G.
Hanford and Col. J. Miller Kenyon.
I'm strong for the Visiting Nurse
Society. and I'm going to do my best
to put it into the championship class"
Bucky Harris said in accepting the
Craftsmanship.
a study made by the Visiting Nurse
Society of the number of visiting
nurses per 1000 population in the
cities having major base ball teams
indicates that while Washington holds
the world championship for base ball.
il is down at the bottom of the list
in the support given her public health
nursing service.
Statement by Society.>
In a statement issued by the So
oiety. calling attention to this fact,
1t is said:
''Washington spent S523.346 during
the world series TO see the Nationals
beat the Giants, and that was all
right-but how much is Washington
now going to spend to treat disease
and poverty. by backing the visiting
nurses? Why not put Washington at
the top in both nursing service and
base bail?
If any family or individual in our
city should suddenly need a nurse
for bedside service, there is only
one organization to which applica-
tion could be made-the Instructive
Visiting Nurse Society of Washing
ton. The 81 graduate nurses of this
society are on call to any person,
regardless of race, creed or color, or
whether they are able to pay for the
service or not-and the cost is 81
cents per visit. SO great is the need
and the demand for our nurses among
those of very limited means that the
service is only 80 per cent seIf-sup-
porting
The total number Of visits made
last year was 57,222; and the patients
numbered I.545. During the % years
OF irs existence our nurses made
nearly 100000 visits to about $4,000
patients.
Illness Causes Poverty.
1t is d we'll known fact that sick
ness is the direct or indirect cause
of poverty among fully so per cent of
those who apply for charity--so that
the instructive service rendered by
our nurses not only helps heal the
sick, but prevents poverty.
But Washington is woefully be-
hlnd IN the number public health
nurses at work in the city. Accord
ing to the American Public Health
Association, there should be at least
700 public health nurses and super
visors in Washington, and the an
nual budget for this work should be
100000. We are now asking for only
$4,000 for two-year budget
enough to pay for 100000 nursing
visits-the remainder Of our budget
small endowment
THE Instructive Visiting Nurse So
clety will conduct public campaign
for funds from November Il to 81,
inclusive. and while our canvassers
will visit many thousands of citizens,
they cannot reach every body. We
therefore need the hearty co-opera-
tfon of every citizen in this task, and
we earnestly ask every citizen to
become fan for the nurses-to talk
nursing service for Washington, as
Washington talked base ball while
the big games were on"