Show 26 anted FA ante fid i in n M montana 0 public health nurs am te ar box V I 1 ea I 1 r ep F you want vant to see a dug out d don an t go to b bradle mate go to M nate n S 11 se scores a of montana mont tain dan 1 I life allea father mother bud and JL sometimes wee babica live I 1 in do log cuts outs or deiy similar to those them via cb sheltered be our soldiers in he thick ot of the aith at I 1 ID france and the life of these f film here bere in armica especially of mothers and children Is a almost a as biffi it bud and dangerous as that of the flee soldier b bivs these facts and ad start stories of the life of a these present day pioneers out west weal have just been made pit public b lle by by tb the children a 8 bureau homes seventy 0 e y 0 1 one 11 hundred miles mile from in a railroad telephones telephone where trails fruits are a dif and good roada reads almost unknown are described la in the report which tells tell 0 the mothers h rs and an babies who suffer wil aa unnecessarily lly and sometimes die be muse cause the nearest doctor may be fifty T r more mile allea away and gium Is no public health nurse nume mau many things are needed to bring C comfort awo rt tand and even vs safety to th these a tarn lost I 1 ties hies the first of these according to the chil children dreas s bureau Is the public health nurse curse and the people of the county studied agree nith this decors mend ab atton a since 1 am t the visit I 1 t of at the ets li a agents we of the e children auld a bureau r eau gic hive suit belt this petition to their board or of county at y coin m in I 1 asio tiers B ft 11 e e it i t petition the board that they appo appoint it at a county nurse chose 1 sa gennea shall be given to the halt of c county ty the legislature of 1917 by the of the he ch child id welfare law empo empowered ored iou to in male she abla appointment because of the war phy ld we were called to the service of t their cir country and ad large sections amaimo of county the county are left without medical at fact to which wit will render the services of a nurse memo more or necessary ay than before 1 in giving health so supervision or isi on t to school chool children and pie pi electing it g th the health of it the community from lot integ intec tiou diSe diseases mc mah iviah auch ul n nurse who could make her bar rounds by automobile the lives of the people of the district would be much sefer ater late 1 in montana bulso so isolated tto many of the settlers at present that thai illness and even death in may my Q find them blone alone and without the p of securing help ly IT dae dangerous gamus 1 Is the occupation of moth er out in that chrt pioneer country at present because g of the had bad wads roads and great dIl distances aud also because of the espique mother offer alter mother he has no an doctor and ad no nurse a at the time when h her r babies an born she goes through hr her fight for life ide a flacht feht as big and as important as that of a soldon soldan the In ittlefield ld in the crude surroundings of her dugout of mud caud and ad wood or her bar tar ta raper shack hack aad ad a or gub gumb oclay jay b home without blip or only with the hoj help aso of f an untrained member of the family or of a neighbor for far a doctor 1 Is a in luxury ury to the pl macure of montana and almost his bit to got get in nil all the district of 5 square mile studied by the bureau there was not at a single 10 hospital only three them registered physicians physician aad ad not cut oue one public health or traveling nurse 18 1 uy my husband rode code horseback 12 bollea ila 1 in a bad snowstorm tor for the doc des tar lor ut he be was sony aw ay my says one other mother another husband left at noon aum to get i I 1 ph skin but lost last 1 in a storm to and did not at get ba back until six clock the at next morning mall mail la is no more ce certain afe the than the roads read or at the weather be or one mother a that wrote months month I 1 in advance to en gage a physician who did not receive her letter until a Sek week after the baby calUB was a born bar me mall in this thin region 1 is de livered heated to a few central it post past a offices ces only two or three times a week weak nod bud then tt it ts Is often delayed for far weak or months it Is a comm common 0 n co complaint m t boath hat w winter underwear ordered ur d in the fall domn t t arrive till spring As might be expected ire from this lack ot at health protection for or her mothers mariana has haa a bad list of casualties more mothers in proportion to the en an tire mab number of women die I 1 tn mont montana than in any other state in the union children are less safe too in be this ii part art of montana than I 1 in other western states ft inter weather said one S mother that who h lived 45 antles from a do doctor for makes make us prisoners I 1 cant at wit tell you bow I 1 am worrying about the winter tor for if my baby should get alck I 1 I 1 d be helpless ciple another mother had to take S a child who had bad appendicitis more than miles to the nearest hospital for ta an operation one filed five day old baby be became ill of at I a time when the be big dry ersak creek had fou its ban bans and it there them we was no an way to er cross it Thes etore efOn no phy sic could an be ent tor far is ill in other ease the nearest jbv at sidan cian attlio a ure lives eg eight mace miles ic from the family was ab say when he it ita eighteen do dai old bator babp fell ul and ad 0 alien tire I 1 the he next doctor who oho hied 35 25 miles away was aty sent abent for he did not at arrive 0 until 1 after the che hh anahis d death cut case of f accident which might be really easily treated in a city or in a country district which had adequate width health to a little we are abt to a cure core to tot in a mea community mi n thant such safeguards in this district for far instance a put pin lodged in a child a the thront at and ad the child had bad to be token taken tall miles to he have it removed need ned of trained N nurses nes es A public health nurse with an so auto mobile obil could do much for the fir protection of both of chil children drin and mothers others to mainly thrim through educating them in car ing ng far or and ad their children in ca of illness too she mild could help the overworked physician Eliy lilan the invalid longer than he be could and ad supplying that expert nursing care can so an important in rating curing illness the story of how bow one country cum corn organized to protect itself age against t disease and to guard the health 0 of I 1 its members la Is described by a secretary of the national itile I organize flee alon for public health nursing in he this community to ID southwestern town iowa a number a of counties handed banded together af to supply P a modern hospital training clam tor far nursia out but they also provided tor far health of cull dren in all the con county conty ty schools fres free dispensaries dispensa ries for school child children for far che cu lasis child welfare afore stations ou and ad jC health alth and social 11 ben mile ice centers fee under trained public health balth a bwy r ry q oi 01 Inc hading charch gra grainger inges lodges judges etc joined this nealton service by paying a small fee and members be or are thereupon cared for byl by the hospital medical staff free in addition to the other care which they get through the dispensaries dispensa it ip Carl ries tha th service as ice is in managed by a board coni con slating of representatives lepreau tives of at theme various organizations organization E even in states where such a corn C plate health h Is not of possible at least rural public health nur ing ng may be begun and the national organization tor for public health ner nursing diat Is 1 urging country ca unities t to undertake thi this work r in a umbel number of states legislation bid I 1 all has fi already been passed al loning county official to emy aloy pahl public health nurses m for far the beat be aft ac of at the bit people if them la is no los lego batio atlon of this kind group of afana men and women can at least rules funds among am g themselves selves tor for such 9 nurse her el salary will be saved based la I 1 tho the d disease which ili S she he pvc presents to the SON fet feilee hu she helps assuage note I 1 la b be yond estimation the he national organization I 1 whose of flee aceb are nt at fifth avenue a son naw no york 1 is helping tarm farm to make all surveys of ahat b at public blim h health 1 in tho or ceeil e d a and it to am secure nursia u cs after funds fund leaie hol been bac raised ml ala mla J ila phillips phillip crandall cranda I 1 I 1 has serra jae tz ed ng as the call secret r of tha auh 1 orimel for public health iines it i sime it its formation 1 in chicago 1 in 1912 during the nar or miss crandall lono loan pd ed bv b till the organization izat on acted is the eve wile secretary of the nursing committees of the can council ell of national defense she has ha raw now returned to lal work vink in hi new yorla wit and Is directing the campaign asin to raise miss a largo larga si ho I 1 in ship fund food to enable blanks nurses am e returning from flain war nork tit to take c cournea to in public health nursing and ad sat enter 1 at once a tins this new field of service f Is miss fb crandall Cra w as at one time on an the staff left of teachers teacher college of columbia ali aidt and ad is still special factor lecturer 1 in the file deport department mout of at nursing and health th the national organization organisation for public health nursing was formed for the tha purpose of standardizing public health work providing courses for or the training as of public bit health nurses and ing 18 be aa a central bureau of advice and noth public health nursing according to crandall has been given a great impetus harem by the war the th public health or stands blends for far the tha socialization and d equal on distribution accord imil to I 1 need ot of timing nursing care miss nil crandall ces il sova save and Is theofore ther fore in direct C met una be with the democratic ideate ideals or of 0 nar at and maguad reconstruction betm |