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 nurses of the Tuberculosis Division are graduate nurses and are
registered. They are paid $75 a month, with car fare and telephone
expenses, and are allowed two weeks' vacation with pay. They are not
required to take a Civil Service examination, but are carefully selected
with a view to obtaining women of a high grade of efficiency. They wear
uniforms of blue denim with simple hats and coats, but not of uniform
design. Each nurse wears under the lapel of her coat a badge reading
"Nurse--Baltimore Health Department," which she uses on occasions. The
nurses report to the Superintendent each morning at 8:30 to hand in
reports of the previous day's work, to stock their bags, and to receive
new work for the day. At noon each nurse reports at her branch office, of
which there are seven, each situated on border lines of adjoining
districts. An hour is spent at the branch office for lunch and rest, for
receiving telephone calls and for restocking the bags for afternoon
rounds. The nurse leaves her district at four o'clock to attend to about
an hour's clerical work, which is usually done at home.
The average number of patients per nurse is 212, about four per cent of
whom are bed cases. These bed patients are visited two or three times a
week, while ambulatory cases are visited on an average of twice a month.
During the year 1912 the sixteen nurses made 72,058 visits for instruction
and nursing care.
NEW YORK
The oldest tuberculosis clinic in New York City is connected with the New
York Nose, Throat and Lung Hospital; it was established in 1894. In 1895,
the Presbyterian Hospital established a special tuberculosis clinic. In
1902, the Vanderbilt Clinic organized a special class for the treatment of
tuberculosis. In 1903, Gouverneur and Bellevue Hospitals and, in 1904,
Harlem Hospital added Tuberculosis Clinics. These were followed during the
next few years by the establishment of many others. In 1906, when the
Tuberculosis Relief Committee of the New York Charity Organization Society
began its work among the tuberculous poor of the city, it met at every
turn instances of overlapping and duplication in the work done by the
various clinics. This lack of co-operation, with the resulting
difficulties encountered by the Committee in its endeavor to efficiently
administer its special tuberculosis fund, demonstrated the advisability of
forming an organization having as its object the co-ordination of the work
of the various tuberculosis clinics. In 1908, nine of these clinics and
several allied philanthropic agencies were organized into the Association
of Tuberculosis Clinics. Today there are 29 clinics, 14 philanthropic
institutions and organizations, five departments of municipal and state
government, six tuberculosis institutions, and numerous other institutions
and organizations having special interest in tuberculosis work. Of the 29
clinics, eleven are under the supervision of the Department of Health,
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