Evening star., 1924-11-17
TWO GIFTS OPEN
NURSE CAMPAIGN
Announcement Features
Luncheon Meeting on Two
Year Budget Drive.

get LOT SJi,uuU LOT the III
structive Visiting Nurse Society OF
! Washington, which took the form OF
q luncheon meeting at the Willard
at noon today.
one nurse has been donated by the
Church of the Epiphany, first organ
ization in the city to become respon-
| sible for the full salary of nurse
$1,000, in connection with this cam
paign. The other, given anony-
mously, will be called the Mary Hop
kins Blagden nurse in memory OF
the daughter of Col. and Mrs. Archi-
bald Hopkins, who, as Miss Mary
Hopkins, was the first secretary OF
the society
These announcements enthused the
$50 workers in the cause who
grouped at Sc small tables, filled the
large ballroom. Those present in
cluded divisional leaders, team cap.
tains and their workers, and repre-
sentatives of the special mems team
composed Of members of the mems
campaign committee. of which Stan
ley X. Harris, leader of the Washing
ton world championship base bal
team, is chairman. Charles Stelzle
campaign manager, presided, reiter-
ating solicitation instructions and
emphasizing the fact that no apology
is needed on the part of any worker
in asking for money for sucn Il cause
as this is.
A specially prepared big black board
has been installed by campaign
leaders on which, starting tomorrow
noon, the daily progress of eact
team and each division will be noted
and totaled. The luncheon enjoyed by
those in attendance today was provided
by the hotel and all proceeds therefron
go direct to the campaign fund.
Lauds Nursing Service.
Epiphany Church is giving the
salary of a nurse, because we want to
stand back of the Visiting Nurse So
ciety as parish" said DR.. II. b. II.
Phillips, the rector. today. We be-
lieVe that this service is one of the
finest expressions of Christianity.
In addition to giving the nurse,
Epiphany Church has a team in the
campaign under the captaincy of Mrs.
Henry Fry, and it is expected that
many of the members of the church
who did not contribute toward Epih-
any's special nurse will send their
own contributions to Mrs. Fry"
The nurse to be supported by
Epiphany Church will be known as
the Epiphany nurse" This will be
the case with any other church or
organization contributing $1,000 to
pay for the full time of n nurse.
The team workers of the campaign
began their public solicitation of
funds today, in order to complete the
budget of the Instructive Visiting
Nurse Society for $4,000 for 1925
and 1926.
Future Budgets Estimated.
The budget for 1925 will amount 10
$93, 5S1 and that for 1926 will be S103,-
5S1. The society is assured of an in
come during this period from nursing
fees and endowed nurses of 7,424
and the probable income from me-
mortal and industrial nurses and
from donations will amount to S32,677
making a total of S100,O91.
1t is hoped by the society that il
VIII not be necessary again to con-
duct a campaign to raise the funds
for its work, but that hereafter
through normal educational processes
sufficient amount will be raised
from year to year to take care of al
of its requirements. it is apparent
however, that at this stage an extra
effort must be made in order to Sc
cure fair start.
Better Salaries Needed.
The salaries of the nursing staff
which numbers 80, are lower than those
paid to other local public health
nurses, and it Is planned to increase
these salaries SO that they may live
comfortably in view of the grea;
strain of their daily tasks. 1t also Is
proposed to establish a new nursing
center and to secure additional staff
nurses to meet the demands on the
service. On account of the growth OF
the work during the past year it has
| become imperative to expand the OF.
flee room and equipment, the present
badly crowded condition of the Office
making it impossible for the nurses
! to do their best work.
I'm a schedule which has been pu,
out during the campaign it has beer
explained that the money of the sub.
scribers will do the following things
$4,000 pays for a nursing center, in.
Guiding supervisor, four staff
nurses, part-tim e. clerical worker
rent and incidentals; $1,000 pays the
salary of d nurse for one year; $500
pays the salary of a nurse for six
months; 500 pays for the care OF
one chronic patient for one year; 81;
pays for the care of one chronic
patient for three months; s14.50 pays
for the maternity care of a mother
and baby: SO pays for the daily care
of a pneumonia patient for ten days
SIS pays for five visits to any one
patient; 81 pays for membership ir
the Instructive Visiting Nurse Society
for one year.
Hourly Service Rendered.
Sometimes in the case of a sever,
| illness, or when many members of /;
| family, sometimes an entire family
are i'll, an hourly service at the rat,
of $1.50 for the first hour and 81 fo
each subsequent hour is given, bu
| the hourly service must not exceed
three hours at one time; the deliver.
service, which is based upon a "a
hour schedule, is given at a cost o
! SIS, with subsequent visits at a cos
| of S145 for both mother and child
Divisional leaders of the SO team
| which will thoroughly canvass th'
| District on behalf of Washington.
visiting nurse organization are: Mrs
Cary T. Grayson, Mrs. Eliot wads
worth and Mrs. G. Brown Miller.
List Of Team Captains.
The team captains under whom the
| 500 workers in the campaign will
function include the following: Mrs
Whitman Cross, Mrs. Harvey w
Wiley, Mrs. r. S. Huidekoper, Mis-.
Clara Farrar Smith, Mrs. Edward
Heidingsfeld, Mrs. Emory Scott Land
! Mrs. Cresson Newbold, Miss Oliv,
| Graef, Mrs. Northup Dean, Mrs. Mer
riam Curtis, Miss Anita Henry, Mrs
! C. r. Lindsay, jr., Mrs. ]. P. Haynes
| Mrs E. l. Neville, Mrs. George Myers
Mrs. Ennalls Waggaman, Mrs. Dor
sey Richardson, Mrs. Walter R. Cher
ardi, Miss Cora Barry, DR.. DAME
Wiseman, Mrs. Wilson Compton, Mrs
| Walter l. Kline, Mrs. l. T. Breunin
ger, Miss A. B. McCammon, Mrs. Aus
| tin Kautz, Mrs. Swagar Sherley
Mrs. Cazenove G. Lee, Mrs. Carte
Fort, Mrs. ]. Craig Peacock, Mrs. c