| Show nurses car carry ry health education into thousands of workers 9 homes aid babes and young mothers Q r 4 M Z 4 zip N K t t A wj I 1 s to the young youngs mother nother the tiny new baby to Is like a piece of brica bric a time brac i jishe she is af afraid mid to handle ii it t for tear fear she might alg ht break it the first bath Is such a fearsome ordeal that it has become customary forthe nurse who administers the tha prenatal pre natal care to come and give the little stranger his first good washing education lof of this sort lapart of the dorkof at visiting nurse the aid given sufferers of any sort must always bo be a demonstration as well so that members of the family may continue the care the nursing service of the metropolitan ro lite life insurance company reaches towns and cities in every state in the union and every province in canada in the two winter months of this year nurses made calls at Ap separate parate homes the nurses in oro pre sections lead the lif life e of the circuit rider travelling tra velling in their flivvers over almost impara able roads and often going on horseback or on foot through wild country to reach their destination it requires dogged determination and physical strength to be enlisted in the service and sometimes on the outskirts of large cities the nurse will spend precious hours trum tramping ping through the mud to find a shack which la Is on no street and has no number the account Is endless of the sickness and suffering caused by the ignorance of people of the poorer class and especially foreigners one woman with five children had neglected an infected finger the nurse summoned by the agent struggled through fields of mud only to find that the woman was sure it was nothing serious the nurse insisted that a a doctor bo be summoned but the woman weman did not want to spend the I 1 money when the doctor came he be lanced it at once md and declared 11 that it was only just in to prevent the loss of 0 the bd bandelt 2 not the womans comans life most moat of the women are eager egbu to learn leam so that thay may il up their children the best beat aws treatment one young 1110 ther with four small youngsters young stert oldest of which was four year t clean and caI cairl caia fl was wag especially bonk dia but measles invaded the tail bad it the three oldest children but the nurse said the baby taxa W ki get ik it it if the mother would 3 bomin this precautions proper 8 0 ehlt day was not so full but ln struL to follow could find time eions to the letter changing time she apron every it baby keeping him isolated Is olata everli boiling separate room et etal omitting 0 to o smallest smalle Bt detail 0 0 of on nal vigilance was waa thelorice the thel price cess cesa and the baby baca ea I 1 |
