New Britain herald., 1924-12-04
AROUSES INTEREST IN PUBLIC HEALTH Secretary Of Nursing Association
 Makes Appeal to Public
 CHRISTMAS CHECKS MAILED
Plainvlllc Trust Co. Distributes S16,- 0O0-School Children Respond To Thanksgiving Request For Contri- buti0ns--Iirc Chief Prior Sick.

The following appeal has been is- sued by Harriet Day Wycoff, secro- tary of the platnyillo Public Health Nursing association;
 Let no one think that the Plain vile Public Health Nursing associa- ton has no use for your assistance. Work multIplics, demands increase and one visiting purse in PlainlIlle is q very busy woman.
 One item alone. the vision tests of school children. now demanded by the health department. is case in point. Miss lIeineman reports during the months of october and November 8ll such tests with 72 new defects in vision thus disCoy- cred.
 Nor is the work in the schools all, One day is consumed in moving a patient, needing specific care, from d Hartford hospital to the Middle town state hospital. One home is visited and patient recovering from pneumonia is found without fire in the house and without food 1 the day after Thanksgiving. One child is taken 10 the New Britain | tuberculosis clinic for observation plans for another are made to st- l tend the open air school, while 3 third child has been practically sup. ported for several years at the New. ington Home for Crippled Children | Thus a menace is removed from oui own school while danger from tu. . berculosis is lesserod for the child. Contrary to reasonable rules Miss Heineman is often called for service on Sunday while on Thanksgiving afternoon she again worked.
 The number of patients under her care in November was 3"Q while she reports 932 visits made Among the yisits--some are socia service calls made to insist upor proper clothing for school childrer during bitter weather.
 lJpIllt pl tu'S pullfulG die pI lltItFS- stty free patients, several are life in, surance company patients, q few are :. pay patients.
 The visiting nurse Is doing a vel
 worthwhile work for us"
 Checks Sent Out Plainville residents were yesterda! enriched to the amount of approXi
 mately SiG,000 as a result of th, . sending out by the PIainyille Trus ; Ct Christmas club checks. The 1895 Christmas club will b,
 started about December IS. School Children Generous The children of the Plainville pub
 lie schools Were very liberal in thci, response to the annual appeal fol contributions 10 the New Britair general hospital and the Children, Home, IS is shown by the following list;
 ,, Nine bushel apples, 942 oranges eight grapefruit, 1@ pound grapes r pounds assorted nuts, one poung figs, 75 jars fruit, 1G6 glasses jelly four bottles grape iuice. eight cans vegetables, one jar pickles, Il pack. : ages assorted cookies and crackers six cakes, three chickens, three cans soup, three package dates. : IA pounds popcorn, 434 bushels pota. : toes, Onc-halr bushoI carrots, one, : half peck turnips, two heads cab, bagn. onions, 51a pounds assorted candy, five pounds assorted cookies . two quarts cranbcrries. five pears
 one book souvenir cards, one Do,
 souvenir cards. $79o cash and onf l barrel apples which was delivered tc the, ChiIdrcn's Home by the fathcl
 Of one of a fifth grade pupil.
 Fire Chief III
 Edward r. Prior. chief of thr
 Plainyillchre department, is iIl al hi'
 home on Lincoln street. Mr. Priol
 received a scratch on his leg whor - he was directing the efforts of thf flremnn in fighting the blaze at 'h' , Harris homo on Broad street or