Milford chronicle., 1944-09-22
INFANT AND CHILD NURSING
CARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF
BOARDS NURSING PROGRAM
CONTINUED from First Page,

2 49,
state numbered 1904; crippled
children 1862; and school child
rem Ill.
Home visits have included help
for expectant mothers, instruction
in the care of infants, and visits to
tell mothers how to care for them
selves after the baby came.
Aid For Service Mems Wives
One wartime job of the Boards
nurses has been those visits which
had to do with the carrying out the
Emergency Maternity and Infant
Care program of assistance to the
mothers and infants of men in the
armed forces whose pay grade Is
$7S per month, or less "a program
known as "EMIC'0. There have
been a total of 1868 visits made to
mothers-to-be during the past year,
and another 3.948 visits made to
mothers after the babies were born.
These figures include both EMIC
cases and other mothers in the
state.
"VD" Control
next to infant care in the number
of home visits as 4,045 visits were
made by the public health nurses
to urge patients to return to clinics
for further treatment, or to have
people who had been in contact
with patients to have blood tests
I'm order to determine whether or
not they were infected with vene-
real disease and in need of treat
ment.
tuberculosis Care
tuberculosis CONTROL is still a.
mother type of the State Board of
Health's work which is carried on,
in part, by nurses home visits, and,
of the 1882 made, a portion were
for the purpose of showing a mem
Der of the household how to take
care of a tuberculosis patient to
try to prevent the disease from
spreading to other members of the
family. Others were for the purpose
of having people who lived in the
same house with a "TB" patient
come to the tuberculosis clinic for
examination to determine whether
or not they. too. had the disease
and were in need of treatment.
To help meet the scarcity of
medical care. the State Board of
Health's nurses are assisting ply
sicians, in order to conserve the
latter's time and strength for the
very necessary services which doc
tors alone can give. thus making
the most of the health resources
available for the civilian popula-
tion. Often hospitals discharge !
normal maternity patients the 5th |
day after birth. AS birth notices
come into the Board. nurses phone |
the patients physician TO offer |
such services as bedside care, for |
mula making and bath demOnstra-
tions. as well as weekly health |
until the new mother
has had her medical examination
by her doctor 6 weeks after the
baby birth.
Volunteers Further Work
That the State Board of Health
nurses were able to make a total
Of 1851 visits in addition to the
many hours spent by them in help
ing to run the Boards numerous
clinics maintained throughout the
state is due in part, Miss Wilson
aid. to the fact that Nurses Aides
and other volunteer workers SER
Fed 1882 hours in helping to do
such non-professional tasks in the
clinics as keeping records. helping
with the files, weighing and mea-
surfing babies and acting as host
asses. Those with Nurses Aide
often helped by sterilizing
Instruments or taking tempera-
.ures. Such assistance from volun-
GERS has greatly aided in stretch
ng the public health nurses pro-
'essiOnal services to meet health
needs on the home front.