The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-03

extensive precautions were taken
to insure the good health OF the
community:
The department with Mrs. Sylvia
Berg as city nurse, served Ypsilanti
in cooperation with the city health
officer. board OF health, superinten.
dent OF schools, and local doctors.
A generalized public health nursing
service to the community during the
past year. through communicable
disease control in social hygiene
clinic, tuberculosis case finding and
follow up directly under the super
vision OF the health officer). and
health supervision for infants
through we'll baby clinic for pre-
school and school children through
immunization clinics and for ma
ternity patients and new born in
fants has been provided.
These services were correlated
with home visitations, assistance
in obtaining medical care, and
transportation OF indigents to the
county physician and University
Hospital.
Home visits were made 70
families desiring any OF the above
services. Due to limited time and
personnel, bed side nursing care
must unfortunately be eliminated
from the nursing service. How
ever, demonstration in the care of
the sick was gladly given. Particu-
larly was the city nurse anxious to
assist family in setting up iso-
lation for a patient with a con-
tagious disease.
The service provided in the city
clinics has been extensive during
the past year. The social hygiene
clinic is only little more than a
year old, having been started in
July, 1889 through the combined ef-
forts of the board of health, DR.. ,.
w. Martin. and Mrs. Flossie Feiner.
In August OF the past year. the
clinic was made part OF a large
central tabulating unit-including
IL clinics In Michigan, IL In Wis
consin. 80 in Chicago. 81 In Indi-
ana, nine in Minnesota. one N
South Dakota, and one in Iowa. The
Division OF Venereal Diseases OF the
State Department OF Health serves
in a supervisory capacity-also pro-
vides the city clinic with necessary
medicinals used in treatment. DR..
ID. w. Martin-as city health officer,
serves as clinician. The services
OF this clinic are available to any
resident of Ypsilanti who is financi-
ally unable to consult a private
physician.
During the past year, 963 pa
tients were treated for some form
OF syphilis, or were assisted with
diagnostic blood test. twenty-five
new patients were admitted to the
clinic, while 3S were discharged. OF
those discharged. 20 were cured;
the rest had transferred to private
physicians. had moved out of the
city, or had been dropped because
OF uncooperativeness. The City
Health Department is anxious to
make this clinic available to all IN
need of its services.
Another form of service made
possible to the community by the
combined efforts of the Health De-
partment and local physicians is
the well baby clinic. This clinic
Is held once a week in the high
school. Mothers bring in their
babies for regular health supervi.
sion. This includes close super
vision Of diet. feeding schedules,
habit training. general physical and
mental growth. and immunization
against whooping cough, diphtheria
and smallpox. Clinic visits are fol-
lowed by home visits by the city
nurse. when indicated. The local
physicians willing to assist serve
for a period OF two months. I
would appear on the surface that
a lack of continuity is the result OF
such a rotating service, but the
well baby clinic progressed without
a hitch during the year. The
following doctors served during
1910. DR.. ]. J:Woods, January; DR.,
r. K. Scott, February and March;
DR.. Charles Pillsbury. April and
May; DR.. Bradley NJ. Harris, June
and July: DR.. NJ. H. Worth, August
and September; DR.. d. w. Martin
October and November; DR.. W. J.
Wright, December. The City Health
Department is deeply appreciatiye
Of their cooperation. During the Sd
clinics which were held, 74S infants
were registered; rs vaccinated for
smallpox: rs were immunized
against whooping cough: 112 were
immunized against diphtheria, and
Is were given Schick tests.
When recent rating OF Ypsi
lanti was made, the health OF this
community was the first on the list
by analysis. To rate the health d
a community, the infant death rate
was used, making the services of d
well baby clinic necessary and jus
tifiable. The Health Department
would like to see every mother
with an infant under one year, who
is not under the supervision OF a
private physician for financial rea
sons, registered in the well baby
clinic.
Supervision OF the school child l.
accomplished through the services
OF the school nurse, Miss Cornelia
Everard, and the city nurse. Here
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