Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis :: read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium — John Shaqi
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
(5) Tuberculosis Division of the Department of Health with two
tuberculosis inspectors and six visiting tuberculosis nurses.
(6) An Open Air Camp, with a capacity of from seventy to one hundred
patients, with a special department for children. Patients are kept
day and night. The camp has three resident trained nurses and one
interne, and is visited daily by the Association's paid medical
director.
(7) Two open air schools, with another promised.
(8) A City Hospital Commission, with a plan for the erection of a
pavilion for 500 advanced cases as the first of a general hospital
scheme.
(9) Teachers soon to be appointed for the education of tuberculous
children.
(10) The trades unions organized to promote the campaign among their own
members in a unique organization.
(11) The whole community alert to the menace of tuberculosis, willing to
shoulder the community burden and to assume the community
responsibility.
The Dispensary is now operated by the Association for the Relief and
Control of Tuberculosis, and the nurses are supplied by the Health
Department. The nursing staff consists of a supervising nurse and six
field nurses, the latter receiving $720 per year. They wear no uniform.
They give a limited amount of bedside care, some member of the family
being taught to properly care for the patient, if he cannot be sent to a
hospital. Recently an additional nurse was engaged by the Association to
follow up cases on whom no diagnosis has been made and who have not
returned to the dispensary for re-examination. Since the Dispensary was
opened in 1909, there have been over one thousand such cases. Many of
these had suspicious signs when examined, but there has hitherto been no
means of keeping in touch with them, as the nurses have been obliged to
confine their attention to positive cases. One of the chief difficulties
of the Buffalo campaign, as elsewhere, has been the fact that more than
half of the cases have probably already infected others. This latest
movement of the Association should anticipate this condition to a certain
extent, and is one more means by which it is "blazing the trail" toward
its goal,--"No uncared for tuberculosis in Buffalo in 1915."
PHILADELPHIA AND PENNSYLVANIA
In the General Appropriations Act of 1907 the Legislature of Pennsylvania
granted to the State Department of Health, in addition to its regular
budget, the sum of $400,000, "to establish and maintain, in such places in
the State as may be deemed necessary, dispensaries for the free treatment
of indigent persons affected with tuberculosis, for the study of social
and occupational conditions that predispose to its development, and for
continuing research experiments for the establishment of possible immunity
and cure of said disease."
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