Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
VISITING NURSES
] SOCIETY GROWS
12O,580 Calls Made and
1905 Patients Treated,
Report Shows.

The wide growth Of the Instructive
Visiting Nurse Society and In the types
Of service rendered are str1kingly re-
vealed In the society'S annual report for
1880, made public today by Miss Ger
trude H. Bowling, director.
when founded 80 years ago the So
eiety reported 1854 visits to 1851 pa
tients. Last year 120,580 visits were
made and 1908 patients treated, ret
including 2,221 visits to 513 famiilcs
made to collect data for the Wnlts
House Conference on Child Health and
Protection. This was an increase over
1929 of SOTO visits and 1928 cases:
LAS in every other Community Cnest
agency" a statement accompanying the
report said, unemployment has been
reflected in the operations OF the IN
structive Visiting Nurse Society in the
increased number of patients who nave
been unable to pay for their care"
Preventive Work Suffers.
Preventive work of the society has
suffered, however, because OF the heaVy
burden laid upon the staff by medical
and surgical nursing, Director Bowling
pointed out.
This, Of course, is short-sighted
policy on the part Of our organization
and OF the community" Miss Bowling
said. ut means that inadequate funds
are being spent for the public health
or preventive aspects of the work"
Preventive work includes prenatal
service for expectant mothers, nutrition
work. child welfare work and following
up for correction of physical defects.
Sixty per cent of the society's work is
with patients of this type, according to
Miss Bowling.
Other types. of service rendered by
the visiting nurses, who work wholly
within the homes, are medical and
surgical care of patients, irrespective
of age, sex or color; nursing care dur
ing confinement of mothers; home
teaching in nutrition, clothing and gen.
eral health habits; massage for fracture
cases; communicable disease nursing,
Including tuberculosis treatment; spe-
cial treatment under doctors orders for
patients unable to attend clinics or
doctors Offices; hourly nursing service,
distribution of health literature, and
delivery of health talks before civic
clubs.
Many Gifts Received.
Many requests and gifts were con-
tributed to the society and aided ma
terially in carrying on the nurses hui
name work. Chief among. these was
the first memorial center, to be known
as the Goldenberg Memorial Center,
whcih was endowed by Julius Golden
father and mother, Moses and Rosa H.
Goldenberg. The Goldenberg Center is
located at 1910 I street northeast 1t
is one of the six offices from which the
society operates. The others are main
tanned in Brightwood, AnacoStla,
Georgetown and Southeast Washington,
with headquarters in The Evening Star
Building
The report showed 10 memorial days
endowed in 1880. OF these, 16-Jan-
uary l to 16, inclusive-were endowed
by the Junior League of washington
and are to be known in perpetuity as
Junior League Days" One nurses full
time will be paid for two weeks each
year by the interest accruing from this
donation. Other endowments were:
May 20, birthday of the late Emile
Berliner, by his wife, Mrs. Cora Ber-
liner; July 2, by Mrs. F. H. Calvert to
commemorate her wedding anniversary,
and December 20, by Mrs. Dwight Clark
in memory Of her mother, Mrs. Robert
Bruce Wallace.
Donations for Salaries.
Donations toward 1880 salaries in
clude:
Anna Livingston Morton memorial
nurse, given by Mrs. William G. Eustis:
Frederic A. Keep memorial nurse, given
by Mrs. Frederic A. Keep; Mrs. Blair
Lee memorial nurse, given by Mrs Ran
dolph H McKim. endowed; Minna Byrd
Lathrop memorial nurse. given by Mrs.
Thomas Nelson Page, endowed; John
w. Weeks memorial nurse, given by
Mrs. John w Davidge; Margaret Pres
ton Draper memorial supervisory nurse,
given by Princess Margaret D. Boncom-
pagni: Gen. William F. Draper memo
rial supervisory nurse, given by Princess
Margaret D. Boncompagni; nurse, given
by Mrs Whitman Cross: nurse. given
by Mr.. and Mrs Frederic A. Delano,
endowed; nurse, given by Evening Star
Newspaper Co; nurse, given by XII
wants Club; nurse. given by Mrs. A. G.
Miller; nurse, given anonymously, en-
dowed.
The officers and Board Of Managers
are as follows
President Mrs. Whitman Gross: first
vice president, MRS. John w. Davidge;
second vice president Mrs. G. Brown
Miller: third vice president, Mrs. G.
Rowland Chase: secretary, Mrs. Dwight
Clark: treasurer, Joshua Evans, lr.; as
sistant treasurer, Mrs. Frank e. Weeoen;
Bruce Baird, Mrs Wilder Baker. Mrs.
Montgomery Blair, Mrs Leonard A.
Block, Princess NJ. D. Boncompagnl,
Mrs. j. d. Brodhead. Miss Elizabeth
BRYAN. Mrs. Hutchinson 1. Cone. Mrs.
Charles 3. Crawford, Mrs. Franklin H.
Ellis, Frank j. Frost, Mrs. Charles c.
Glover. jr.; Miss Janet B. Houtz, Miss
Virginia Hunt, r. M. Kaufman, MRS.
r. M. Kaufman. Mark Lansburgh,
Mrs. George r. Lockwood, Mrs. George
p. Mcclellan. Mrs. Keith Merrill, Mrs.
A. c. Miller, Radford Moses. George H.
Myers. Mrs. Cresson Newbold, Mrs. John
Jay O'Connor. Miss Elsa Peterson,
Charles W. Pimper, Mrs. Ord Preston,
Ord Preston, Mrs. David Reed. H. L.
Pust. IT.. Mrs John M. Sternhagen,
Mrs. B. w. Thoron. Mrs. J. w. Turren-
tine, Mrs Charles F. Wilson.
Honorary members: Mrs Herbert
Hoover, Mrs. Thomas F. Bayard, Mrs.
Blaine Beale, Mrs. James Couzens, Mrs.
Gibson Fahnestock, Mrs. Frederic A.
Keep, Mrs. Corcoran Thorn.
Medical Advisory Board: DR.. william
G. Fowler, DR. William H. Hough. DR..
Frances A. Foye, DR.. @. w Leadbetter.
DR. John Minor, Dr. James p Mitchell,
Dr. Albert L. Stavely, Dr. William H.
Wilmer
Business Advisory Board: Walter
Bruce Howe. John Ihlder, Samuel H
Kauffmann, Newbold Moves. Edward J.
Stellwsgen, J. Miller Kenyon.