Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-11-16
Sandstone Scene
OF Annual Seal
Banquet Meeting
County Nursing Chairman,
Nurse and Others Give
Interesting Reports.

The animal banquet and program
for the Christmas Seal directors and
workers of Pine county was held at
the Madison hotel in Sandstone, last
Thursday evening with an attend
ance of approximately 80 representa-
tives from various parts of the county
Mrs. E. B. Linsley, president of the
Pine County Public Health Asso-
citation, bid the audience welcome
and introduced Svend Petersen of
Askov, who from then on presided
as POSTMASTER. After paying tribute
to Mrs. Linsley for her "a years of
continued service as president, Mr..
Petersen injected some humor into
the affair which was followed by the
various speakers, resulting in max
ing it a happy event in addition to
being instructive and interesting.
DR.. H. P. Dredge of Sandstone, ex-
tended the official welcome of his
city to the gathering.
Miss Margaret Breen of st. Paul,
state publicity director, told of the
work of the organization in general
and the publicity campaign that is
now in progress.
Mrs. Herbert Johnson of Willow
River, president of the county COM
mittee in charge of the nursing serv-
ice, gave an interesting report of their
work and accomplishments. In fact
her report is of general interest to
Pine county residents in particular
and for that reason synopsis of her
talk follows below.
Other Speakers.
County Superintendent A. E. Gus
tafson did not appear as scheduled
and his place was taken in an able
manner by Superintendent H. M.
Shawl of Bruno, who told how the
Seal Sale could be handled through
the schools.
DR.. E. I. Parson OF Askov, sub
Stituted for DR.. F. F. Callahan of
Pine City, who was unavoidably de-
tanned. DR.. Parson was a splendid
substitute. His paper contained
much valuable information on the
Importance of early diagnosis of
tuberculosis and modern methods of
treating tuberculosis patient.
What the public health nurse finds
as she visits schools and homes in
the county was told by Pine County's
Public Health nurse, Miss Virginia
Karlson, in her usual able and in
teresting manner.
DR.. E. A. Meyerding, executive Sec
rotary of the state organization, was
i'll at his home in st. Paul, and had
sent as his substitute DR.. L. R..
Critchfeld of ST. Paul, chairman of
the health education committee of
the Minnesota State Medical Associa-
ton. DR.. Critchfield is veteran in
the service and explained in an in
teresting manner plans for furthering
tuberculosis prevention work in Min
neSota.
At intervals throughout the pro-
gram there was singing of pep songs
by the audience and Miss Ruth Han
sen of Askov, was given hearty ap-
plause for her vocal selections.
MIR. Petersen closed the program
with a 3-minute inspirational adj
dress on the Importance of everyone
present going home inspired and de-
termined to sell more Christmas
Seals than in former years.
AS a closing feature there was a
talking film illustrating the modern
methods of detecting and checking
the growth of tuberculosis.
Nurse Committee Reports.
eve residents of Pine county should
consider ourselves very fortunate. Out
of the 81 counties in the state of Min
nesota there are only 80 counties
with public health nurses and our
county is one of them. Out of the
452 public health nurses in the state,
only AZ can be classified as county
nurses. All the others are located
in the large cities and schools.
ut has been said that the ideal
set-up would be one public health
nurse for every 1000 people. If we
in this county could have that ideal
situation we would have II county
nurses to accommodate our popula-
ton of $4,000 instead of one county
nurse who has the whole county to
take care of. At the present time
there is one nurse to every $4,000
people in rural areas and one nurse
to every 5000 people in urban Min
nesota.
81 would like to tell you a little
about the history of the nursing serv-
ice. AS early as 1918, shortly after
its organization, the Minnesota As
ISOLATION for the Prevention and Re-
lief of tuberculosis, forerunner of
the Minnesota Public Health Asso-
citation, turned its attention to the
problem of public health nursing
Continuously since that time the
public health association has played
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