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FLOOD County Nurses Make 7,404 Calls Pedro to Vacation In Own Back Yard Woman Fatally Trampled By Cow child guidance clime and its value. Experiences Varv sXRii(E The -hone at the home of Mrs. K. S. We-kley.

Ill P-ik-anl street, who K. been t-k ing caie Teiiro. the inu.it.c robin, runi constantly nikhl. Ir'r wne Wdotirg tke care tre city. by 1 i 25.

r.5 del 2 a. m. a. I he preschool period is a very important time of a child's life and it prepares him for good health in future years, she said. Nurse assisted this parent as she had others in detecting abnormal signs ana symptoms, eye defects, crippling conditions, speech defects and others which should receive medical care.

Nurse and others made 1.393 home visits on preschool children last year. Give Eye Tests. Nurse remembers a day this spring when she was giving an eye test to a school boy named i 1 Mr. the an.mal June ID at her r--. A crorer's J'-ry returr.el a tr d.t of Accidental le'l ir.

r. Thuriajr rr. i. Ccri For 7 on Health Department Staff BY JERRY SOUL. How would you like to make 7,404 calls and visits to McLean county schools and homes during the year? The seven staff nurses called public health nurses of the McLean County Health department cid that very thing this past year.

Day after day these nurses meet at 8:30 a. m. at the ollice at 1009 North Park street, don their blue uniforms, taxe up their black bags and are off to their separate districts in the county to do the work it has taken them years to prepare for. In the morning they sometimes Roy I. McOeLlan rep-rtei.

I Michael. As are others. Nurse is a descerning nurse and tries to discover defects before they do bird wmtc tV.e Veak wcr.t on vacation. Fated with the thought the birl In hue has Mr. We-k-ley decile to let hurt hift fr himself in her bark yard while they are on vacation.

A neighbor. Mrs. Taylor. H'9 Packard street, wi she would keep an eje on him. The hamster and the South Dakota chipmunk were turned lnre in the woods late Wedresd.y afternoon.

Native of India Will Speak Here A native of I)imh. Ir.d.. the Hcv. IVter wiil njeak at the Second Christian churc: ef nioominctoii at the tr.orn.r.i: service at 10 30 a. m.

Sunday. Rev. Solomon is in the States as a repreentatie of tr.e Disciples of Chrit Comnsunn GIvex Wrong Address Bybee. 1:3 Veet. reported v.i Ho-artl.

h.i a-1 at M03 South frf. hen rerer.tly tht aldre. Mr. ir f.rrr.rr!r l.ed ti.j, I. e.

en: owrers I i harm. Michaels mother never realized he had a vision defect until the nurse and the teacher found it out in a routine test Michael, incidentally, did much stop a while to chat with Miss Lottie Matmson, supervising better work and was no longer listless and unconcerned about everything during the last part of f.nt ...1 the school year, after the trouble Cor.r.eci t' in to latr law. was found. The staff nurses made 1 Vty 1 1,496 school visits and 1,653 home MORNING CHAT. Miss Kuth Jackson, left.

MrUaii County Health department staff nurse, talks over proposed day's work with Miss Lottie Mathison, comity nursing uperisor. visits on school children during the past year. Summoned by the doctor. friend, neighbor, policeman, pas tor, school teachers or others, the nurse, who has a manner that in-! tpires confidence and experience enough to cope with almost any problem her nurses might bring up. After their conferences they get their records ready, plan their work for the day and leave for their territories.

Ihey phone in at 1 p. m. but do not come back to the office until shortly before 5 p. rru when they are through for the day. Human Relations Problems.

Let's take Nurse for exam-pie. On this day she was given a call from a neighbor of a woman who was an expectant mother. Nurse A investigated and found out that the husband had desert 'He is atlcndinjt ur.iver-!ity at Enid. OkU. trp.c McLean county health nurses fill be "Together We Witness for Christ." the tanks of their battered cars and take to the city or country i i roads as a matter of hurried rou For tine each day of the year.

Each of the seven nurses averaged ST. lAH IS. Uorknien on strike at llie llmtun leather about five calls per day last year, Sometimes the nurses are call The Albert Iliepagen Flower Shop tr.) CttlKHOUSU Will BE C105ED I IYm Jul; Ith Srr4. tnd 20 Miller pany ewntiiiiie pirkrtiit; in spile of flm water Hut rraliel lite building T1e rreolrd at thU plnt WrdneMlay at 40.3 fret. wirpi.oio D.rci i ed upon to give talks before Canned Beer Turn to Page 5 ICY COLD of coarse mothers' clubs, PTA's, and other groups.

Kace, creed, and age make no difference whether rich or poor she gives knowledge of ed the family and the mother was too concerned over this problem to apply for medical care for herself. She had felt ashamed of the RADIO how to meet health problems di situation and had not discussed A A vl rectly and effectively. Special Events it with anyone. Nurse A rendered prenatal serv All Registered Nurses. 0 Jix ice and assisted her in planning All the nurses, including the trainees, are registered nurses.

A by contacting one of the county agencies to render additional assistance. Once more a mother requirement of public health Herr Improving 1 After Accident Anton Herr. 30. 406j North Roo.eelt street, was reported recuperating satisfactorily in St Joeph's hospital Thursday from skull injuries sustained Tuesday afternoon. Mr.

Herr, an employe c.f Brandt's Truck lines, was injured when a mechanical jack u.ed to load a trailer, slipped and struck Mr. Herr in the head. The accident occurred about 3:30 p. m. Tuesday.

nursing is that all stair nurses should have one year of academic 7 "America's Town Meeting of the Air," will be broadcast this week from a DC-6 airplane at 8:30 p. m. Thursday on U'JBC. The topic will be "Has Twentieth Century Civilization Improved Mankind?" Speakers: George V. Denny Lew-is Browne, the Rev.

Herbert Smith. On the other side of the nation in Citv knew she had a friend in the public health nurse. Home visits for prenatal cases totaled 348 dur training in an approved school of public health nursing. ing the year She must learn to use all the After the mother and newborn items in her "little black bag' which contains an apron, thcrmo infant were discharged from the horpital, Nurse A visited them to render care to both mother and the speakers will be Dr. Lin meter, dressings, lirst aid sup tutang and nr.

Harlow Shapley. plies, soap, towels, alcohol, baby infant. She demonstrated proper scales, hypodermic, flashlight care, the baby bath, the milk for mula as recommended by the physician. Postnatal visits amounted i KVKItYTIIIMi medical she's coins to need while away from the office during the day is in the public health nurse's famous "little black hag." "'V tongue depressor, home made pa-1 per sacks with a flap (where waste is put). Miss Mathison started with the department shortly after it was to 288 during the year, by all NOTICE! The Office of BRUIITOII STORAGE YAH Inc.

WILL BE CLOSED July 4th and 5 th nurses. All Types of Work. Nurse however, had a differ nt job this day. She went to her territory, tacked up communicable We Will Be Closed July 4th and July 5th WEST SIDE COAL LUMBER CO. REMEMttEn THE LV Mil Ell SUMMERS 7G7G -1111" W.

Market The Phone The Addrevs chs-ease signs wherever needed inen she visited in the home in each case and assisted the family formed last year. She is a registered nurse, has her bachelor of science degree and a certificate in public health nursing. Her staff of nurses are: Mrs. VYilma Lancaster, Mrs. Jeanettc Miller and Mrs.

Mary Lcnahan, all from the now dissolved Bloom-ington public health unit: Mrs. Hilda Esch. Miss Carol Oberst, Mrs. Jane Worst and Miss Ruth Jackson. in establishing isolation and car home where there was a child of six months.

She gave advice concerning feeding and following out doctor's orders as to child care and early habit training. Teaching early signs and symptoms of communicable diseases and the importance of immunization was stressed. The nurses made 1,153 such calls during the past year. "Betty is beyond my control." a woman told Nurse during her visit. Betty is 4 years old and "she had a temper tantrum yesterday just because I insisted that she eat her cereal.

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