Evening star., 1924-02-21
81 VISITING NURSES
/ OF VALUE TO CITY
The Evening Star Among
Those Supporting One
for a Year.

N The Instructive Visiting Nurse So
Eiety of Washington maintains a staff
OF thirty-two graduate nurses, who
work on a salary basis. These nurses
20 daily into all parts of the District,
doing part-time nursing and giving
invaluable instruction in hygiene and
care of the sick to such persons as
find it unnecessary or impossible to
employ q full-time nurse.
The Evening Star Newspaper Com
pany pays the yearly salary of one
of these nurses. 1t does this for two
reasons: First, because it believes
that the organization rs a good one
and performs a valuable and i'm
portant service to the community, and
second. in order that the more than
400 employees of The Star, together
with the members of their families
may avail themselves of the skilled
nursing care offered
I'VE hope that the Evening Star
Newspaper Company will consider the
service rendered sufficiently valuable
to be continued for another year.
Miss Gertrude III. Bowling. director
OF the society, wrote in a letter which
rendered during 1928. This report
showed that ninety-seycn Star en-
pioyes availed themselves of this nurs-
ing service and received total OF
36l nursing visits through the year.
It also showed that there had been
an increase of about so per cent, both
in the number of patients and the
number of visits over 1922, the flrst
year The Star paid a nurses salary.
we have heard nothing except
nd
of your splendid corps the business
manager of The Star wrote in an
swer, land are GLAD to advise you
that the company ill continue the
same arrangement through 1874. with
tho understanding that our employees
may be free to cali upon the services
of the l. V. y. S. without expense
to them. for home nursing for them
selves or their families at any time,
in addition to emergency services
rendered at the office in case of ac-
Cident.
We hope that this arrangement ia
fully understood and that there will
he an even larger use of the I. V.
n. S. service on the part of our en-
ployeS throughout the year"
Advantages Described.
Both the society and The Star de-
fire this increase in service. the for
rner because it feels that not yet is
1t making commensurate return for
value received. The Star has recently
Issued a bulletin to all it's employees
pointing out the advantages of the
Tree nursing care arranged for and
emphasizing the fact that it is sery-
ice rendered for value received.
The fact that The Star pays the
yearly salary of one nurse does not.
or course, mean that one nurse and
duty. Different nurses have different
territories and the proper nurse re-
sponds to the call from the District
wherein the eniploye resides.
me Instructive Visiting Nurse So
ciety, founded twenty-five years
ago, announces its aims as the re-
lief of suffering, the prevention of
illness and the teaching of health
through its pay service, it offers a.
hlgh-grade nursing care on cost
basis $50 cents a visiD to those of
small and moderate means income
through its part-pay service it ma kes
possible the same skilled care to those
Wh" can pay only a little or, per
haps, nothing. During 1922 the blue
uniform of its staff entered the door
ways of 5,69S patients a total of As
Els times. Its types of service in
clude nursing in acute cases, nursing
In chronic cases, maternity service
and child welfare service.
Given Three Automobiles,
Until n year or two ago the So
received two as welcome gifts. Within
the past few weeks it has received
n third. with the promise of still a
fourth. These adjuncts prove in
valuable in its community health con-
servation work.
The headquarters of the T. V. y. s.
are in The Star building, with tele
phones Franklin 63s7 and Franklin
S4a2 Its hours on week days are
$50 until O'clock: on Sundays,
when only very i'll patients are visit
ed, from $3.50 until 1890 O'Clock. pa
tients reported before 9 am. are
visited the same morning. Patients
reported before 2 pm. are visited the
same afternoon.
Officers of the society are as fol-
lows:
President. Mrs. Whitman Cross:
first vice president, Mrs. Adolph g.
Miller: second vice president, Mrs {;
Brown Miller: secretary. Mrs. Frank
lin II. Ellis; treasurer, Joshua Evans
Riggs Bank: assistant treasurer Ers
Frank +. Weeden. .
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, wife of the