Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-11-12
Community Chest
Health Program
BY DR.. DONALD A. DUKELOW,
Secretary Public Health Education Section of the
American Public Health Association


Let's talk about health is most appropriate talk
the health supported through Community
You privileged contribute support to
Red Feather agencies serving community dis
the health services community must recognize
that used in many by host Of agencies to
improve the public's health.
Several agencies the improvement of COM
munity health obtain their through the Community
Chest This of giving developed in
order that the contributor might agencies which
gives through the Community Chest have undergone very
screening that will insure the efficient of the con-
dollar that needed in the community
this that the outside the
Community Chest do not warrant support They certainly do
certain insurance against the ineffective use OF
pubs money for those services which covered and it
reduces the number OF requests that VIII be MADE Tor money
Community Health Service-Famly Nursing Service
Toledo, District Association of the Chest
health services Visiting the sick their primary responsibility
within the broad definition of the sick find certain
types Of conditions to which they give their major attention
the prenatal expecant mothers
help mother her baby good start in
life and do so with minimum of Inconvenience and
on her The physicians examination and the minis
ons the clinics protect the health of both mother and child
The class work that given in conjunction clinics
help the mother but also her husband to understand
the physiology of pregnancy and the unusual but normal ex
perences that bound happen They prepared bring
the baby home with minimum of disturbance to the family
routine
the child after birth The child conferences in which
pedarcan advises the mother on the development of her child
nepre his observations contribute great deal
to successful growing up In this period mmunzatons are ad
problems discussed the mother helped in
ways have happy adjusted child
privileged group but available who want to
make use OF The lees that are fhased are
Service that each have the privilege of paying his
way, part at least.
Home Care For Illness
Another significant part of visiting nurses is
assisting families with communicable disease protecting their
families and their neighbo families from
At the bedside the makes point instruct to
mother other responsible the family in the
hand washing sanitation of dishes and other details that the
burden of be made light safety will warrant Very
he ptha
aueny she can be of help to herself or direct the family
the channels for seeking the assistance they need that
particular instance
age scale we encounter chronic
and seniy family health problems Older people with
chronic illness become burden the family
for him The instruction in nursing and the practical inter
probation of the physicians orders make the caring for
chronic illness home much easier than might otherwise be
Unmarried Mothers and Their Babies
mothers such as Florence Crtenton
Home provides guidance and protection these girls Though
health cs Aong these ~o % J ~ sG PROVIDES %
prenatal and ponatal supervision proper and
boarding ultimately will be placed
adoption.
Chldren's Dentistry
At the present time the Toledo Dental Dspensay
Greater Toledo The children attending
by the school because of their
lies from which they fall within the eligibility
charge deay expenses to give
families the feeling that in they paying
number of social have their major RESPONSE
by the advising OF families in trouble Many Of the troubles
that families have based emotional disturbances
shade into actual mental illness To help the
these agencies better problems
encounter the Mental Hygiene Center is available.
Rehabilitation
The physically disable are at such Red Feather
agencies the Toledo Society for the Blind League
Hard of Hearing Society for Crippled Children and
will Industries which provides suitable occupations for
handicapped people that they may make
And that when contribute Community
Chest portion Of each dollar Improvement the
health Of the community and to the are alienation
suffering other The services supported by
hey care for certain OF the critical problems community
health that can be found in community as ours