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 nurse, who was assigned by the Tuberculosis Institute on half-time
attendance, visited the school each afternoon, took daily afternoon
temperatures, pulse and respiration, looked after the general physical
condition of the children, made weekly records of their gain or loss in
weight and did instructive work in the home of each pupil.
Of the thirty children selected, seventeen had pulmonary tuberculosis, two
had tubercular glands, and eleven were designated as "pre-tuberculous."
None of the children had passed to the "open" or infectious stage. On
admission two-thirds of the children showed a temperature of from 99 to
100.2 degrees.
The daily program was similar to that already described for the Providence
and Boston Schools. The school was kept open for a period of only one
month, with excellent results. During this time the thirty children made a
net gain of 115 pounds in weight, and at the close of the period
practically all of them showed a normal temperature, with their general
condition greatly improved.
It is needless to say that the experiment created a great deal of local
interest in the problem of better school ventilation. Those who had the
success of the movement most intimately at heart realized, however, that
the undertaking lacked the element of permanency and that the results
accomplished by it lacked that degree of conclusiveness which would attend
the same results if secured through the operation of an all-the-year-round
school.
The opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of such an
all-the-year-round school was realized in the Fall of 1909 by a grant from
the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund to the United Charities for the
purpose of conducting such a school on the roof of the Mary Crane Nursery
at Hull House. This school was opened by the United Charities in October
with twenty-five carefully selected children, and was conducted throughout
the following winter and spring with the co-operation of the Board of
Education and the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute. During the same winter
the Public School Extension Committee of the Chicago Women's Club,
co-operating with the Board of Education, established two classes for
anaemic children in open window rooms--one in the Moseley and one in the
Hamline School. Here the regular regime was broken by a rest period, and
lunches of bread and milk were served twice each day. "Fresh Air Rooms,"
in which the windows were thrown wide open and the heat cut off, were also
established for normal children in several rooms in the Graham School. No
attempt was made here to furnish lunches and no rest period was provided.
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