The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-26
Commonwealth FUND CHILD HEALTH
CLINIC IS SUCCESSFUL AT FARGO

the case. AS 500 AS D0Dy is Olu
enough. the mother is urged to take
it to her physician for regular, fire.
quent examinations.
Provide Health Centers
Health centers are provided to
which we'll babies and small chill
dren may be brought for medical
examination. The nurses continue
to keep in touch with he child. and
when he enters school he is given
medical examination by the school
physician. These examinations are
repeated at intervals throughout the
grades, with a nurse and the child's
teacher and whenever possible the
child's parent present to hear the
Doctors recommendations.
whenever conditions that require
medical care are found, the child is
referred to his family physician and
the parents are urged to attend to
the need at once. School children
are inspected daily and those with
any indications Of communicable dis
ease, including common colds, arc
sent home.
"In all the grades of the public
and parochial schools the teachers
work systematically to establish
good health habits. The younger
children keep a daily record Of their
success in observing the important
health rules. Produce dealers re-
port that Fargo consumes ten times
as much spinach now as t.fore the
schools started to teach the value Of
green vegetables.
"All children in the schools have
dental examination once a year,
and are urged to go to their family
dentists for Filings, extractions and
other needed treatment. Free care
for those needing it is provided at a
public clinic.
"In Fargo in 1926 three babies
out of every ten were examined by
public health physician, and seven
out of every ten were visited by a
nurse. Six out of every ten children
over one year Of age were visited
by a nurse. Six out of every ten
school children had a medical exam
ination, and half Of all the fcmilies
in the city were visited at least once
during the year by one of the nurses.
Since the demonstration began in
1923 it's physicians have averaged
4,4O0 medical examinations IF babies
and children every year. and the
nurses have made about $4,000 visits
annually.
I'm a recent survey of all public
health work in the city, DR.. w. F.
Walker, field director of the Ameri-
can Public Healt. association, gave
Fargo rating of 814 points out of
possible 1000. This is an increase
of $50 per cent over the score for
1922.
DR.. Dekleine Is Director
"Dr. William DeKleine has been
director of the Fargo demonstra-
ton since 1925, succeeding DR.. Will
liam j. French, now director of the
C Commonwealth Fund child health
program in Austria. DR.. B. K.
kilbourne is city health officer. The
Fargo demonstration, together with
three others now in progress in
Clarke County, Ca, Rutherford
County, Tenn, and Marion County,
Ore, has been administered for the
Commonwealth Fund by the Child
Health Demonstration Committee.
"Barry C. Smith, general director
of the Fund, is chairman DR.. Philip
Van Ingen, New York, treasurer and
Courtenay Dinwiddie, formerly gen.
eral executive of the American
Child Health association, director.
Among its members are Living
ston Farrand, president of Cornell
university; DR.. w. F. Draper, United
States public health service; DR..
Samuel McClintock Hamill, Philadel-
phia; L. D. Coffman, president of
the University of Minnesota; DR..
Donald B. Armstrong, Metropolitan
Life Insurance company; Sally
Lucas Jean, New York, and Ella
Phillips Crandall, New York.
Try our modern high pres
sure greas.ng service for all