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
The underlying and controlling belief of the Chicago Tuberculosis
Institute has always been that no great progress can be made in the
campaign against tuberculosis, or in any other reform movement, until the
soil is sufficiently prepared. The soundness of this policy may be seen
in the fact that the activities of the Institute, its exhibits, more
especially the success of the Edward Sanatorium, and also the work of the
dispensaries, led finally to the adoption by the City of Chicago of the
Glackin Municipal Sanitarium Law and made possible the Municipal
Tuberculosis Sanitarium now nearing completion.
The maintenance of the seven dispensaries having become a source of
considerable expense to the Institute, they were turned over to the city
and became a part of the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium in September,
1910.
The Institute continued its activities as "an educational institution for
the collection and dissemination of exact knowledge in regard to the
causes, prevention and cure of tuberculosis." It concerns itself also with
keeping before the minds of the public the proper standard of care for the
tuberculous in public and private institutions. Through its Committee on
Factories, the Institute conducted during the last three years a vigorous
campaign for the adoption of the principle of medical examination of
employes. The Robert Koch Society, an organization of physicians, is the
outgrowth of the Institute. In brief, the Institute for years has led the
fight against tuberculosis in this city.
The dispensary system of the Municipal Sanitarium, organized as above
stated, has gradually developed into ten dispensaries with a
superintendent of nurses, ten head nurses and fifty field nurses. A staff
of thirty-one paid physicians are a part of the organization. The ten
dispensaries hold twenty-six clinics a week. In 1913, the attendance at
the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium clinics was 43,989 patients. Nurses
made in all 39,737 visits to the homes of the tuberculous patients. The
system of visiting tuberculosis nursing in Chicago is steadily moving
toward greater efficiency in coping with the existing situation. The chief
features of the Chicago arrangement are as follows:
(1) Nurses are classified into:
=Grade II. Field Nurse=
Group C: $900.00
Group B (At least one year's service in lower group): $960.00
Group A (At least one year's service in next lower group): $1080.00
=Grade III. Head Nurse=
Group B: $1200.00
Group A (At least one year's service in lower group): $1320.00
=Supervising Nurse=
Group B: $1440.00
Group A (At least one year's service in lower group): $1560.00
=Grade IV. Superintendent of Nurses=
Group D: $1920.00
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