Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-07
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE RECOMMENDS
HEALTH EXAMINATIONS FOR everyone AS
PART OF FALL PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
Ia need for care Is extremely

, Is the need for care Is extremely
urgent.
I wish you might all have been
present at our second clinic held
for crippled children at the Augusta
General Hospital. August Is. The
preliminary and clinic arrangements
were made by us this year, last year,
you remember, local committee
sponsored and made the clinic pos
sible. Forty seven cases, Al Of whom
had never been examined before
were present, DR.. e. G. Abbott, as
before, clinician. Most of the local
: physicians attended at some time
during the day.
Transportation for more than half
of the cases was given by the Au-
gusta Rotary Club. DIR. Hall, at the
hospital, gave the X-Ray work,
charging only for plates used. Nurs-
ing attention was furnished through
health service, and two nurses from
| the State Department of Health. Sew
| enteen cases were referred to the
Childrens Hospital and 20 recon-
mended to have home treatment.
Winthrop, Readfield, Mt. Vernon and
| Windsor.
| As in previous summers the pro-
gram of health instruction was con-
| tinued at the Macomber playground,
with visits to parents for further adj
vice. The first week in July a Health
Week, in which the local and state
health organizations cooperated, took
place at~the playground and proved
to be most successful. AS our part of
h. M l.
dren's conference was held. The pur-
pose Of this conference being to
reach the child planning to enter
school in the fall-to weigh, to
measure, compare present with nor
NAL weights and so determine pos
sible presence of physical defects and
need of medical attention. The dem
| tai hygienist of the State Department
| of Health assisted in giving oral
| inspections. We cared for Al chill
dren at this conference.
I Our French Baby Conference has
been held every Wednesday since its
start over Is months ago. DIR. Berube
| has been in attendance all of that
time. Over 100 babies have been
reached.
II seems quite advisable that we
have a second tuberculosis Clinic,
given under the auspices Of the
Maine Public Health Association
| clinitian, DIR. J. Francis WEIGH or
Portland. This clinic last year ac-
| complished much and made possible
| tuberculosis work we would never
| have found otherwise. We now have
six cases in state sanatoria and two
| cases now discharged as cured. At
tendance of local physicians of course
would be invited but a specialist as
clinicain means much and seems to
make a larger clinic possible. ! hope
such a clinic may be arranged for
next month.
| In the near future as part of our
fall program, / am looking forward
to health examination campaign, a
campaign in which every man, woman
and child will think about health.
| We need to get people to realize how
much better it is to go to see the
| doctor now, rather than to find 1t
necessary to have him come to see
them. Such a campaign seems to be
real health work. One-fourth of the
population of Augusta ought to Wis
it their family physician and have a
health examination. I am sure we
could secure the support of the ply
sicins and start perhaps very worth
while means of saving and presery-
ing life. We can not forget we are
health association that means, first
make people we'll, and It IS also our
whole purpose to keen them well.