Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis :: read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis SanitariumChicago (Ill.). Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Dispensary Department
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Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis :: read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium
Chicago (Ill.). Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Dispensary Department
Tuberculosis
The Boston Consumptives' Hospital Dispensary, centrally located, is open
every morning and one or two evenings a week. Three or four nurses are on
duty in the clinic each morning, taking histories, attending nose and
throat room and preparing patients for examination. At the dispensary only
a medical history of new patients is taken, the social history being
obtained by the nurse on her first visit to the home. Pulse, temperature
and weight are also taken at the dispensary, after which the patient waits
his turn for examination. Each new patient is given an examination in the
nose and throat room; old patients also, if necessary. After examination
or treatment, all patients return to the general waiting room. From here
each patient is called before the Chief of Clinic, who notes the general
progress of the patient, the results of the last examination or any
remarks recorded by the physician, and the report of home conditions as
reported by the nurse. The Chief of Clinic advises the patient in
accordance with the needs indicated. He makes no examinations, but sees
each patient every time he comes to the clinic and is thus able to follow
very carefully the progress of each patient and to advise such changes in
treatment as may seem necessary.
The city is divided into twenty-two districts, each nurse being
responsible for the care of all tuberculous patients in her district. The
number of patients cared for by each nurse is from 100 to 180. A very
small percentage of bedside care is given; far advanced patients as a rule
are sent to hospitals.
Boston tuberculosis nurses do not wear uniforms. They are paid $900 a
year, with no increase for length of service or efficiency.
BUFFALO
The purpose of the Buffalo Association for the Relief and Control of
Tuberculosis has been to stimulate progress in fighting tuberculosis. It
very modestly shares with the city officials and with private charities
the credit for the work accomplished. All it claims for itself is that it
has been able, and will continue, to "point the way." How thoroughly it
has succeeded in this may be seen by the progress made since 1909 when the
Buffalo Association made its first appeal for funds. At that time Buffalo
had:
(1) A dispensary maintained by the Buffalo Charity Organization
Society.
(2) The Erie County Hospital for advanced cases.
(3) A day camp, with a capacity of thirty patients, supported by a group
of women.
(4) One visiting nurse supplied by the District Nursing Association.
The present facilities are:
(1) A dispensary, open every day and one evening a week, with a nose
and throat clinic, and a dental clinic with a paid dentist in
attendance.
(2) The J. N. Adam Memorial Hospital for early cases, capacity 125,
supported by the city.
(3) The Municipal Hospital for the care of advanced cases, supported by
the city.
(4) The Erie County Hospital, as before.
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