Show ii CITY'S NURSES TO BEGIN THEIR WORK ir IN OFFICE MONDAY b A Later They Will Visit isit Schools ii 9 and F Familiarize Themselves f 1 1 With A i th New Duties e. e r being being- actively In B their work worle among the tIe schools o othe ot of I the city the tho two district nurses nurse I j I who ho will u be added to tho the city health department tomorrow Mis Miss Caroline f i Roberts and Miss l Ellen Lees wit be bet t given ghen a week of training work In the theoffice office of ot the board of oC health When hen tile the nurses are sent out to beM bc- bc M I gin pin the school chool work worl thoy they will vill go first with P physicians of or tho the health d department depart depart- part part- 1 ment who will supervise the work worl and I give she Instructions and Information until until until un- un til the nurses are arc thoroughly familiar J. J with the work During the fore foro part of ot this week I according I to Dr Samuel G. G Paul city cin health commissioner the tho two nurses t I will m be kept In the board of health office oft of- of t flee fice and will vill he given Iven actual demonstrations demon lemon lemoni i In the work worle of examining and testing children ren for Cor diseases and andl l J the tho I Issuance of ot permits to return to tor r school t Then the nurses will be bo sent out r I with Uh the physicians ians to various arious places t f where here patients are quarantined that they ma may see the tho various arious contagious t Land and infectious diseases In their theil different differ differ- ent eat sta stapes stages cs and familiarize themselves es with 5 symptoms and ami such like I Actual School Vork ork After Arter being given this preliminary train training InS InS' the nurses will be sent outon outon out outon on actual school work worle about next week eck Dr 11 Paul proposes to personally supervise tho work of ot starting the tho nurses in on their tasks and will ac acI accompany act ac- ac t I company them fo for a a. few da days s on their J t trips to the tho schools t After that the tho I I I whole work will be left In the hands o of the nurses Dr Paul is arranging a schedule t f whereby T each nurse will be a able ablo lo to tot toI t I call at six ix school buildings building's each week ri- ri They will bo at the name ame school on the Ii Fame same da day each cach time so 50 that children I I desiring permits to return to school will ilI know knot the date on which they the will t find a nurse at a certain school to to Issue is issue is- is 2 sue sue permits ts l I 1 In a addition to lo visiting tho the outlying t I schools tho the nurses will also have e to tomake J I make malce frequent investigations in of ot home homei 6 i I conditions in cases where children are aro r t afflicted It is desi designed ned b by Dr Paul that the nurses shall not on only I teach I the thc teachers how to detect conta contagion lon and md how to protect their children from infection but that in cases where prot pro- pro t I services needed in j i are arc homes and tho the homes ma may not be able to afford afford atI af at- I- I Iford ford medical consultation the nurses 1 will Into those c go o homes an and she give practical and anti effective information and advice An instance In which district nur nurses es I 1 might I ht have saved a a. lot of trouble WR WRt was t hen given yesterday b by Dr Paul Recently Recent it 1 1 ly the health department sent sont Its physicians out to make mako a general in inspection in- in of Ot the tha outlying schools just to seo see what hat the conditions of oC health and sanitation were In one school In inlo 1 lo 10 extreme me northwestern section of or offe ortle I fe tle city t it was vas discovered that aln almost ost I all nil the children were afflicted with ft ringworm worm The disease was supposed 1 to bo ho nothing but chapped chappell skin 4 To ro Guard Thin v It Is to guard against just such i i things as these that tha the district nurses I are arc employed ed Their experience will f enable them to detect the nature of 1 f such uch diseases at nt once and Rud the they will t proceed to protect tho the other children from rom infection I With on only I two nurses of or course not all an tho the schools of or the city can be bo covered coy cov ered and the work of oC the tho nur nurses es will he 10 confined to the outlying schools for Cor forthe the how liow- present Dr Dl Paul believes beHe cA e Cr cr that when hen tho people of l 11 r school find that nurses arc are visitS visit the outside schools and Issuing p pe r. r i- i and looking after the tho health of or Ut r children thc they will insist upon tm tH t force o of nurses being increased so as us asto to give e them the same advantages I The district nurse service is not a n. anew new Id idea a by any means it has been developed to a a. vcr very broad and high state of or efficiency in many of oC th the larger ar arger ex- ex eastern eastorn cities of or the United 4 States State In New e York Chicago Cincinnati Cincin Cincin- fr i nati and other such cities thero there aro are not hot but school I 1 only district nurses free N 1 I dispensaries I orl In Eastern Cities r t In these dispensaries the children are i I given treatment Tho The nurses visit tho the schools do work worl in tho the dispensaries r and visit the h homes mes of ot the children I reek eek e k out afflicted members of or the families tam tam- Illes and either have them treated at atthe I the he dispensary or somewhere else The They look after oter sanitary conditions i In Ip 1 1 the homes and a hundred and one other J things s that go toward making health q One of ot the most Important works acI act ac- ac 1 t b by the tho nurses of ot tho east cast eastis I t Is Ss that o of preventing pre infantile mori mortalIty mor- mor 1 i by giving 1 mothers personal inI in in- I f how to care for their babies l This is a work which Dr Paul desires I I tto to have havo the tho district nurses do In Salt during the hot bot weather season I In tho the eastern cities clUes nurses go into I the tho homes of or the tho poorer classes and andS andt J S t I show the moth mother r exactly how hon to bathe fJ J I 1 dress and care for tar the baby how to toI tl j I prepare its food and what sort of ot food I to give It The nurse makes males It a a. point I to call can every da day for several days das and I give he instructions over every da day not b by t I aim limply imply ph telling tho the mother what to do I but b by doing it herself herselt and demonstrating 1 I I In ing to the mother how bo It is h to be done I 1 I Dr Paul also proposes to have the 1 i nurses do work In the matter of ot pre- pre S l h 1 I of th the spread of or tuberculosis I f and nd In the typhoid season the they will betl bo be bot tl t cd cd in this work worle |