Show 01 X 1 M yrsa a I 1 81 li 0 0 MARY 0 0 0 0 11 1 1 i 0 SUCCEEDS 0 1 11 T 0 0 14 R 0 ON oil 0 g 0 it R MAIN STREET I 1 i A oil 0 0 it As 0 31 ai 0 01 ia 0 t 0 by LAURA MILLER 0 i I 1 0 0 J y A 0 1 11 1 0 4 I 1 1 I 1 11 ll 4 S by laura miller THE DOCTOR ON MAIN STREET can ft a woman whose address isa la actually main street bo be success ful fult or Is she so far from the center of things so BO near tile old fashioned prejudices about mans place in t lie 11 professions and bowans womans place int la the h home that oven even the profess profession lo n which pro serves tho the home to a hopeless ven venture turell dr blanche haines of three rivers and lansing mich ought to bo be especially qualified to answer both these questions sho bile does actually live at that very main blain street address she to la a success if service Is any criterion in what lias has been tor for centuries the mans job of making alck folk and keeping well folk healthy her tit title leis Is a lengthy one yot yet it describes only lu in part the scope ol 01 lier hor work which brings her into contact with people n f k year aho 1311 0 18 I 1 director of the bureau of child lingl hygiene and public health nursing of the gan department of health lie alth thero there was a time when doctor haines arid her doctor husband aud and a good looking lookin g ono too she interjects had temo to practice medicine in the country town of throe three rivers in fit comfortable fashion between whites she indulged la in her passion for collecting antique furniture A country doctor who starts antiquing from main street silo bhe opines kopines has it a much more wonderful time than the antl lanti quer on the lower east side of new york doctor haines Is so BO busy now with prenatal care i and a baby welfare that she has had to abandon antiques her p physician hyst clan fattier father who had to be mother as well gave hernot her not only hla his profession fes sion slon but his bla habits of thinking straight in the best mau man fashion then she came under the influence of susan B anthony and found out the secret of working for and with women hence as michigan women have grown in power and opportunity for service they have put doctor haines on many committees most of them having to do with health finally the state following the example of the national government 1 has adopted tile the mother and baby eduan measure known as the sheppard toner act forthwith doctor haines was called upon to make the written law into on an actual benefit to those who most needed it it Is an aa doctor haines says bays primarily n rural problem of lowering infant and mn death rates outside the large cities especially in isolated homes where mod modern ern medical knowledge penetrates slowly and having lived on main blain street street in a small city Is the one factor which doctor haines chief ly depends on to build success |