Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-19
JUNIOR LEAGUE
SERVICE EFFECTIVE
223 Home Calls Made in &C.
tober Work for Chill
dren's Hospital.

The Junior League is performing
wseful service to Children's Hospital in
several different ways during this hrst
year of its new activity there, accord
Ing to Miss Matte Gibson, Superintend-
emit of the hospital.
During October members of the league
and its STAFF made 223 social service
calls at homes, according to the records
at the institution, in order to follow up
the benefits achieved by visits to the
hospital This service for "out-pa-
tients" work has been carried on by the
league since last May, when the organi-
cation began its systematic help at the
hospital The league and its staff have
made q part of the 1871 social service
visits recorded for the past year II the
hospital ending october 81: Some OF
these calls were made by the hospital
workers. The increased amount of TINS
kind of work is shown by comparison,
as during the past two years the social
service calls from the hospital stan
numbered 6,804 and GIGS, respectively
other Helpful Service
In addition to the out-patient social
service work, Miss Gibson said the
Junior League was performing helpful
service through active members who
are organized in groups for sewing,
motor corps transportation, story tell
ing, and spoon feeding of little chill
dren. Mrs. George T. Summerlin, jr.,
Is chairman of the Hospital Committee
of the league, and the director of the
league staff at the hospital is Miss
Lucia Murchison.
The Child welfare Society Board of
Children's Hospital has just received a
report on the Summer work of June to
September, showing results which make
the board feel their campaign to Keep
the Well Baby Well" is justified.
The fact that there was but one
death among the 1,1O1 registered babies
from the summer foe of children, 1leo-
colitis, has given to the board q sense
of "worthwhileneSs" of this work, cen-
Quoted in the Child Welfare Depart
ment Of the hospital.
That mothers are appreciating the
importance of this work themselves was
evident by the way they brought their
babies to the counter on hot days of
the Summer, according to the report.
The attendance of babies at the con-
ferences was 2,406 during June. July,
August and September. Of that num-
Der 1,765 were under one year of age.
THE need for the prevention of rick
cts can scarcely be overemphasizsd, !"
said the report. THAT ricketts, is a
chronic disease, starting in the earliest
months of infancy in about 30 per cent
Of all babies and continuing in many
through one or two, and occasionally
three, years of life is a well-established
fact. In about IS to 90 per cent of the
cases 1t occurs IN moderately severe
or severe form, and is an underlying
condition in many Of the nutritional
and upper respiratory tract disorders Of
later infancy.
I'm the examination Of a group Of IS
children held the oath of June only IL
were found to be free from physical de-
9ects A total of IS defects were found
IN the 46 other children.
Twelve Sent to Camp.
Twelve Of the under-weight children
were sent to the Associated Charities
Camp and three babies to the Chill
dren's Country Home. In addition to
these special pre-school examinations,
the regular pre-school conference at
tendance was SIT.
Home visits to the number of 1,540
were made by the nurses during these
months. and the conference attendance
was SIT.
The present enrolment of registered
cases Is 1,101, In the Child Welfare De-
partment, according to Miss Caroline
Sweeney, supervisor of the work. Miss
Catherine Cowsill, nutritionist, gave So
food demonstrations, with an attend
ance Of 7i8.
The Child Welfare Society Board Of
Children's Hospital Is headed by Mrs.
Frank B. Noyes, honorary president,
and Mrs. Frederick de Courcy Faust,
president.