New Britain herald., 1929-06-12
VISITING NURSES
 SET NEW RECORD.
Calls it Hons to So Blh6
 During My fotL S@

The regular monthly meeting of the board Of dirseters Of the Visiting Nurss asseciatien' was hlld at the aSociatien heedeuartsra. 5: Center street. yesterday morning at 10:1s o'clock. The prtadent, Mrs. Andrew J. siepsr. presided.
 Mrs, Noah Lucas, chairman of the finance committee. read the financial report af the association for May.
 MrA Harry c. Hlne. chairman of the Child Welfare committee, re- ported IT we'll baby conferences during May. with an attendance of sss babies. She stated too that the nurses had made special effort to in- crease the character of their work by making mors visits to the homes of the babies resistered at confer. ences and had succeeded in making 3s3 home visitA This number was the largest svsr made by the asso- citation in one month. and was m increase Of 3o1 per cent over the average number of home visits per month in ls3t-ls.S.
 The committee recommended the payment of the attending physician at the conferences and the board voted to carry out this recommends ton.
 Prc-School Examinations
 A report of the first pre-school examination held by the United Parent and Teacher association at Washington school on June show ed total of 66 children examined. Nest of the children were found to need vaccination and protection against diphtheria. They were re- ferred back to their family doctors for correction of posture. diseased tonsils. cArious teeth, faulty hearing and eyesiEht.
 Three visiting nurses were In at- tendance at tho first examination and will continue at each clinic un- til each school child has had an op- portunity to have physical examina- ton.
 Mrs. Hine further reported on the study which her committee is mak- ing of the child health work done using the appraisal form for city health work as presented by the American Public Health association.
 Mrs. Louis Young reported two meetings of the nurses committee during May.
 During May. sos new patients were admitted. II more than during April, and 11s less than in May last year when the epidemic of grippe was at its height. This figure was slightly below the average number of admissions per month last year.
 viats Increase
 In visits. however. May brought an increase Uf about 800 over last month and 1c0 over tho same month che year aGo. the rise showing large ly in an increased number of viaits made to prenatal patients: to cases of communicable disease: in visits to patients at the time of confinement. and in home visits to we'll babies resistered at conference.
 visits made last month to patients with communicable diseases num- bered 25s against 120 in May last year, before the service was gener- alixed. Scarlet fever and diphtherta have been dominating diseases
 One hundred and 30 visits have been made to prenatal patients akainst 8 last month and 73 last year. This number of visits is 50 per cent increase over the averasH number of prenatal visits per month during 1923.
 Calls for delivery service in the homes totalled IT against 10 in April. and II during the same month last year. Consid erable distress is felt that this service is not used to the full extent of its intended useful- ness. During May, for instance. out of 17 deliveries attended in the homes there were 10 cases where the nurse was called too late ts serve the patient adequately before the baby was born. In six instances the baby WAS born before the nurse arrived. Some confederation may be given to limiting this service to pa tients who are registered with the visiting nurses early in pregnacy and 10 those late cases who doctors feel cannot b. taken to the hospital his request for assistance being assumed to mean that hoApitalixa- ton is impossible and nursing serv- ice may be the means of saving . life.
 Olive Elliot. general field supervi- sor. gave a demonstration of the uss of the nurses bag in the home and . talk on the value and methods of supervision. which she is employing,
 Members of the board present were: Mrs. Andrew J. sloper. Mrs. Stanley T. Goss. Mrs. Robert M. Par sons. Mrs. James B. Thomson. Mrs. Noah Lucas. Mrs. William s. Bacon, Mrs, Valentine B. Cham berlain. Mrs. Rufus N. Hemenway. Mrs. Hurry C. Hine, Mrs Lawrence c. Humason, Mrs. William l.. Humason. Mrs. Wil- liam H. Rattenbury, Mrs. John 8. Whitteker, Mrs. Louis W. Young. Barrels of Beer and Ale
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