Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1940, Page 15

Visiting Nurse Sociefy Lauded by Parran In Radio Talk More Workers Needed, Surgeon General Says, Citing Fine Record ‘The visting nurse was pict\;red & & S, . : as the “spearhead of public health”| . | 1 1 . . . and the “strong right hand” of the : ‘ # v ; : Sheer Dellghts mn Prmted public health officer by Surgeon § - % i General Thomas Parran of the United States Public Health Serv- : g : : - i S 45 ice in a radio address over Station } lar 4. WOL last night. b 94 , , egl Dr. Parran'’s address was in praise of the Instructive Visiting Nurse So- i A . ciety, which is celebrating its 40th . S S —Border prints anniversery this year. The society 8 & g Y : is to be honored by the Board of | i = N E tripe prints [ ] Trade, the District Medical Society . % —Pnuly prints and the Council of Social Agencies . 5 8t the Mayflower Hotel April 30.| * : F ; g —Checks and florals Sees Need for More Nurses. ‘ The community needs more visit- - % , ipper ,60 inch So pretty we wouldn't hesitate to put them in a bride’s nig_nurses, D;- Pflm]‘;‘ bs:‘g‘ Sl ; 98 ol ‘oe 809 trousseau! Cool, feminine cotton batistes with lots of Thely Dhmber pou publen. o Bag [ pod ry swishy ruffles, lace and shirring. White and a variety he declared, “and there would still x e V2°7 7 e se Lou i 3 be much for them to do.” v of blossomy postels. Sizes 34 to 50. The visiting nurse plays an im- 1—A% i iy : portant part in the fight against| 4 ‘ o z N such diseases as cancer, syphilis, ndati that :\nn' » op Madil & Phone Orders Fi lucd—NA. 9800 pneumonia and tuberculosis, he . y us K % A 7 3 said. She must know about all of | : our i roh rubbe’ i ' i Lansburgh's—Lingeris Dept~Third Floor them, he said, adding “that is why e Sy . . A % 4 it is so important that your visit- ing nurses have not only the usual hospital training, but the speciali- zation in public health and its branches which makes them the best of all teachers, those who teach by doing.” The visiting nurse has helped greatly in reducing infant sickness end death rates by teaching moth- ers how to keep a normal child well and thriving, he continued. “Valuable Training Ground.” The I. V. N. S, the Surgeon Gen- eral declared, has “provided a val- uable training ground” for about @ / 4 irs yles: \ y 30 nurses of the District Health e . rent inish) - x Department, for many in the coun- : < apte. R i Pror every s 4 Magically Cool MESH in ties of Maryland and Virginia and | {8 ; . 11 o ol 7 ® and 7¢ . other States. It also has supplied - & 3 3 ' ’ . L executives for nursing bodies such G s i G ’ p » s M 0 0 T n l E as the Victorian Order of Nurses ; p ' loiner” - . for Canada, the associations of sev-~ s . 2 a4 ¥ ;% b B 4 eral cities, the nursing force of a § . 2 S 50 - % i Gil‘dles & F”undations life insurance company and the training centers of several universi- % 4 ~ . ¥: - ties 3 \ : < ’ k ? 3 P O The speaker also gave “great % o) 1 o\ L credit” to Miss Gertrude Bowling, i’ 4 g 57 H director of the I. V. N. S, and Mrs. N : . g & 4 4 4 : ; Harlan Fiske Stone, its president. Y 3 : " ¢ Last year the visiting nurses cared Light as a breeze, but with a control that will be o for nearly 27,000 patients, half of pleasant surprise. The Smoothie “controleur back’ them children under 16 years old holds you in firmly, and yet has just enough yield to and 20 per cent of them under 1 make you comfértable. Cotton mesh and lastex. year, Dr. Parran went on. They i S wose- i . 5> Sizes 25 to 32, 34 to 40, Nude color. made 157,000 visits to these pa- % ! ; / tients, he said. /al- pox that ¥ e : s ze. 3 ; g Lansburgh's—Corset Dept.—Third Floor “Literally, in the words of St. - 2 A i ; Paul's exhortation, he said, “the visiting nurse has been ‘all things to all men.” . Publix Child Orchestra To Present Concert The children’s orchestra of the Publix Institute of Music will pre- eent a concert next Sunday. night, beginning at 6 o'clock, in Francis Asbury Methodist Church, 3146 Six- teenth street N.W. The program will include a violin duet by Ellsworth and Adrian Tol- ley, violin quintet by John Eubank, Robert Montgomery, Charles Giller and the Tolley children, violin solo by Charles Giller and novelty drum | f. = GIFT FOR YOU! Miss Jeon Patterson, Delettrez consultant, will be #0lo by John Eubank. with us for an entire week. 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