Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-18
GARDINER HEALTH
CENTER Open FOR
INSPECTION FRIDAY

GARDENERS first health center VIII
be opened for public inspection from
3 o'clock until Friday afternoon
when interested citizens will be CIV
en- an opportunity to visit the new
headouarters in the Maine Trust ana
Banking Company building. Here -
located the executive Office and ex-
aiming room of the Gardner .Pupnc
Health association, which inciuoes
the Red Cross, the Gardiner District
Nurse association, the Child welfare
association and the dental clinic.
The district nurse, Miss Hazei
Robinson, r. NJ, makes these rooms
her headquarters and may De .Iouno
there from $50 until A. NJ. ana from
4.3O until 5 P. M. Miss Robinson is
available for bedside nursing, ana is
also METROPOLITAN nurse for Gardiner.
Randolph and Farmingdale. Miss
Catherine Calvin. r. N, school nurse,
has the same Office hours as MISS
Robinson and parents or children
may get in touch with her after
school for consultation purposes. Her
duties consist mainly of supervision
work in the public schools, visits 10
the names of children, follow up work
on the notices sent out by the school
physician, making arrangements Tor
hospital treatment, and other details
of health work Although he organ
izaions with which they are affiliated
have definite duties laid out for the
nurses, their experience has made
them equal to almost any emergency
and the requests for their services
have been many and varied. Health
workers in this city have been UNI
stitig in praise of the services rem
dered by both Miss Calvin and Miss
Robinson, who take the more than
ordinary interest in their work that
spells success.
The dental clinic is held Thursday
morning and children whose parents
cannot afford to have this work done
for them come to the clinic and are
given all the free treatment required.
The work is done by the dentists OF
tn city, who give their time free. and
who take turns in the work. 1t Is in
eresting to note that 166 children
were registered at the clinic for the
year 1925. this figure giving some
idea of the scope of the undertaking.
Each Thursday afternoon from 1.S0
until 2.30 o'clock the baby clinic is
held, and here again the doctors of
the city give their services. each doc
tor serving for a six months period.
The babies are weighed and If symp-
toms of any trouble are noted the
mothers are given advice as to treat
ment. No treatment is given at the
clinic, however. The workers have
made arrangements for the babies to
be called for and taken home. 240
babies were registered at the clinic
during 1925 and it's work Is invalu-
able in preventative work.
The handsome rooms are made
possible through the generosity Of
Mrs. H. G. White and Mrs. r. P. Haz-
zard. The main room, which is used
as an executive Office is No. 6 on the
second floor of the bank building,
and in one corner Is the full dental
equipment which was moved from the
old high school building by Leon c.
Blaisdell who volunteered his SER
vices for that purpose. An the walls
of the room are clever health pos
tiers which add to it's attractive ap-
pearance. The chairs in the room
were donated by r. P. Hazard. In
the examining room, which opens off