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
Pittsburgh has also a State Department of Health Tuberculosis Clinic, with
ten nurses, each caring for from 90 to 100 patients per month. These
nurses give a small percentage of bedside care and are not in uniform,
except when on duty in the dispensary. They are paid $70 per month. The
plan of work is similar to that of the Philadelphia State Dispensary.
The Department of Public Health of Pittsburgh employs four visiting
nurses, who investigate home conditions and instruct patients reported to
the department who are not under the close supervision of a private
physician, the State Department Clinic, or the Tuberculosis League Clinic.
The nurses are able to correlate, in a way, the work of the two
dispensaries by assigning patients to the clinic in the district in which
they live. They receive $75 per month and are not in uniform.
Pittsburgh, then, has in all twenty visiting tuberculosis nurses, under
three separate and distinct organizations.
CLEVELAND
In Cleveland, as in nearly every other city, the work of organizing the
fight against tuberculosis was accomplished by private organizations, the
Anti-Tuberculosis League and the Visiting Nurse Association. For a number
of years the Health Department confined itself to keeping a card
catalogue of reported cases. In 1910 sufficient funds were voted by the
City Council to enable the establishment of a separate Bureau of
Tuberculosis, whose duty should be the development of municipal
tuberculosis work. This Bureau has taken over and gradually developed five
dispensaries, with a staff of twenty-four visiting tuberculosis nurses,
and paid physicians, besides the director and office force. The work in
Cleveland is centralized in its Health Department.
General dispensaries are required to refer all cases of tuberculosis to
the tuberculosis dispensaries, and physicians are required to report all
cases to the Health Department. On report cards and sputum blanks is the
statement: "All cases of tuberculosis reported to the department will be
visited by a nurse from this department unless otherwise requested by the
physician." With very few exceptions the physicians are glad to have a
nurse call, and every effort is made to co-operate with the physicians in
handling the case.
The city is divided into five districts, with a dispensary located in each
district. Patients are treated only at the dispensary serving the district
in which they live. "This plan prevents cases wandering from one clinic to
another and enables the nursing force to do more intensive work in each
district."
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