The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-03-21
LEGION AUXILIARY
To FIGHT DISEASE
DIR. HELEN HUGHES HIELSCHER
HEADS NEW COMMITTEE TO
BOOST HEALTH-LISTS STATE
HOSPITALS.

DR.. Helen Hughes Hielscher of Man
kato, appointed state chairman of a
new Legion Auxiliary community SER
vice advisory committee which includes
Miss Olivia Peterson state Superin-
tendent of Public Health Service
nurses, and Miss Mathilda Carlson,
formerly of the Minnesota Public
Health staff, announces that her COM
mittee will ask Minnesota's 400 Legion
Auxiliary units to conduct positive
health campaign to combat disease
She says:
Our aim in brief will be to bring
about better understanding of the
laws of the state pertaining to the
prevention of preventable disease. To
assist all legally authorized groups in
contracting the handicapped in the COM
munity, whether these handicaps are
the result of disease, accident or
poverty.
ITO distribute information in the
community on the schools supported
in the state for the care of crippled
children, blind, deaf, feeble minded,
epileptics and the methods of putting
such handicapped people in contact
with these schools.
ITO make it matter of common
knowledge that the state is interesting
itself in the re-education of those who
by disease or accident require special
training in the battle of life.
DR.. Hielscher continued, Minnesota
is not backward state It has good
laws for the protection of its depend
ents or wards, but the crying need is
for distribution of information about
these laws among the people who
might benefit by them.
1--WE have four hundred centers of
information that we can put into this
service. We have membership of
$4,000 women, everyone of whom can
inform herself on these subjects for
the benefit of the community.
"Our object is to reach every de-
pendent child or adult who can be ben
Gifted by our state institutions, and put
them in contact with it so that they
may have, so far as lies in our power,
their chance in life.
"The unit activities chairman i'm
every one of our 400 units will receive
personal instructions on this work, to-
gether with such literature as the state
Board of Health approves, and with
double set of history cards, one to be
filled out and sent to the department
chairman of unit activities and the
other to be filed in the unit"
In conjunction with the health cam
paign being conducted by 400 units to
combat disease, the following infor-
nation of general interest is being dis
tributed.
DO YOU KNOW: I'd That the
state is taxed for and supporting in
situations for the deaf, blind and
mutes? CD Our taxes support hos
pitfalls and schools for crippled child
rem? CD Our taxes support a home
for epileptics at Cambridge, and
home for feeble-minded at Faribault?
(4) Walker is state sanitorium sup
ported by the state? 60 There are
IA local sanatoria in the state? Co
The government provides $4,000 for
any district building a T. B. sanitor-
ium? CD Lymanhurst, Minneapolis,
is the finest open air school in the
country? 60 Free literature Is pro-
durable on request? co. That the
following is list of the county san
atoria in Minnesota:
Nopeming, Nopeming, DR.. A. TLaird,
director.
Ottertail, Battle Lake, Dr. w. s.
Barker, director.
Tuberculous Pavilion, st. Paul,
Ancker Hospital.
Mineral Springs, Cannon Falls, DR..
W. D. Beadie, director.
Glenn Lake. Oak Terrace, DR.. E.
Maniettte, director
Sunnyrest, Crookston, DR.. w. Par
ads, director.
Lake Julia. Puposky DIR. r. L. Laney,
director.
Sand Beach, Lake Park, DR.. L. H
Flancher, director.
Buena Vesta, Wabasha, Dr. r. H.
First, director.
Riverside, Granite Falls, DR.. j. j.
Barfield, director.
S. W. Minnesota, Worthington, DR.. s.
A. Slater, director.
Oakland Park, Thief River Falls, DR..
B. c. Bernard, director
Fair Oaks, Wadena.
Deerwood, Deerwood, DR.. E. L.
Slater, director.
State Sanatorium Walker, DR.. H A.
Burns, director.
| That field nurses in Sanatorium dis
ftricts are Elizabeth Phalen, Glen Lake;
Helga Peterson, Nopeming; Anita jar
Wis, Sunnyrest; Mrs F. Youngdale,
Riverside; Esther Gustafson, Oakland
Park; Marguerite Slogan, Sand
Beach, Edith Kleven, Ottertail.