Putnam patriot., 1930-10-09
RED CROSS NOTES
Conference Graduate Nusse Association - Appeal for Needed Clsshing.-Annu.i State Conven- ten October Is

A meeting of board members of ,he Red Cross Nursing Association was held at the Service Home on Bal Ion street. Monday afternoon. Miss Esther Welles, district nurse. report ed 256 visits made during September and $19.57 collected. A total of fifty one babies were examined at the Well Child Conference.
 Due to present conditions the as soeiation is confronted with supply ing clothing to needy familie. An urgent appeal is made for clothing for men. women and children. While clothing can always be placed where needed, at the present time the need !. more urgent than usual. It is found that there are a number of families where the bread winner is ont of work and the family is scant- ilv clad. Those having clothing they are willing to donate to relieve this existing condition are requested to eaTl s65-2 or to leave the garments at the Service Home on Ballou street.
 The annua! convention of all Red Cross chapters in the state will be held at the Hotel. Mohican, New Lon don. Thursday, October Is, at 10 a. m.
 Attend Conference
 Miss Esther Welles, district nurse, Miss Marguerite Neil, rural nurse, and Mrs. Arthur s. Macdonald. R. N. attended the semi-annual conference of the Connecticut Graduate Nurses Association in New Britain. Friday. The gathering was welcomed by Narcr QuigIey who described their .s a noble profession. The mem bership, it was learned, is higher than ever before and numbers 2,3se persons. 1t was further reported that the treasury has a reserve of shahtly more than $l3,000. which includes $3,500 added during the past year.
 The nurses were accorded every plvilege while in the city. Parking rules were set aside for automobiles marked with their insignia,
 The facilities of the Burrill Hotel and Shuttle Meadow Club dining rooms were given the visitors and two churches were opened for their rneetings. All were routine and the various talks on nursing subjects at tracted large gatherings in the First Baptist and St. Marks Episcopal Church
 During the morning a session was held in each church, Mrs. A. E. Ham mer presiding over that of the pub lie nursing section, Miss Maud k. Traver over that of the education section and Louise B. Johnson, R. N.
 
 for the private duty nurses. Greet ings were extended at the three con ferences by Mrs. R. U. Hemenway, Dr. II. D. Welte of the State Normal School and J. R. Hay of the New Haven Trust Company.
 Dinner, Tea, Luncheon
 Tn the afternoon. after A dinner served in the Burritt Hotel. the nurs- es held a joint session in the First Baptist Church with President Irene V. Muller of the state association in the chair. Mayor Quigley briefly greeted the nurses after he had been introduced by Dr. T. Eben Reeks, superintendent of the New britain General Hospital, and business re- ports were read. Miss Traver or New Britain reported on the national convention in Milwaukee and there wa. a talk on "Annuities for Nurs- es'' by Carrie NJ. Hall, R. N, of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Bos- ton.
 The conference was closed with tea in the Visiting Nurse Association headauarters and a buffet luncheon later at the Shuttle Meadow Club.