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THE QUARTERLY BULLETIN OF  
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Published quzwterly by the Frontier Nursing Service. Lexington, Ky.  
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VOLUME VI. WINTER, 1931 NUMBER 3
"Entered as second class matter June 30, 1926, at the Post Office at Lex-  
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y WHAT PRICE FAMINE?
‘ Early in September the Frontier Nursing Service engaged ,
Mr. Lee Morgan, a Leslie County mountaineer, to ride through
the seven hundred square miles covered by the Service, visiting
’% family after family in order to ascertain the exact number of
yl bushels of corn each family would have on hand for the winter
I and the number of adults and children, mules and cows in each
· family to be fed. The same corn which is fed on the ears to
stock is ground for meal and makes the bread-stuff of the moun-
tain population.
The facts gathered by Lee Morgan were brought to the
. central office of the Frontier Nursing Service at Wendover,
  Kentucky, and tabulated by secretaries there. The data on the
  first 115 families was taken to the American Red Cross at Wash-
  ington early in October. By January 20th, 1175 families had
· been covered in eleven surveys. Lee Morgan continues to add
L to these surveys, but the following table gives the facts up to
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SUMMARY OF SURVEYS IN PERCENTAGES (1.-20-31) j
' Total Number of Families Visited (6,584 people) ..__ 1,175  
Total Number of Surveys Made .......~.....----- ~— 11 ‘.
Total Number Families Visited before Red Cross began to  
function ............. - ............... 1 .------------ - —-—— 860 le
Total Number Families Visited and found to be without food--146 i
Percentage of families without food in January ......._. 16.98 {
Additional Percentage of Families who were without food after I
January 31st ....................... - ..--..--.---- 17-45 ?
Percentage of families who are without food in February-34.43  
Additional Percentage of families who will be without food after  
February 28th .................. - .........~...---- 21-53 I
Percentage of families who will be without food in March-55.96 U
Additional Percentage of families who will be without food after .
March 31st .......................... - ......--..-. 8-43  
Percentage of families who will be without food in Apri1--64.39  
Additional Percentage of families who will be without food after
April 30th ..._............... - ................... 3.15
Percentage of families who will be without food in May---67.54
Additional Percentage of families who will be without food after .
May 31st ......__.........................._..._. 1.02
Percentage of families who will be without food in June--68.56 r
Additional Percentage of families who will be without food after
June 30th ..._..........e........_.........._..... .17 j
Percentage of families who will be without food in July--68.73
Percentage of families having sufficient to last through year ......_ 7.74** _
Miscellaneous group—no data given as to when they would need aid- 1.87
Percentage of families who were without food at different times
during (September-December 1930) period .__..__... 21.66T
TOTAL ................................ 100.00%
*From the above table it will be noted that before the next harvest 92,26% of the
families covered by the survey will be entirely without food, as only 7.74% of them A
have sufficient to last through year. `·
iNote that the local population, only 7.74% of whom have a surplus for the year,
carried the famine relief unaided of one-fifth of the population for four months be-
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A study of the foregoing table shows a state of acute
E famine. It shows also that in a territory where less than eight
J per cent of the people had a surplus of food, the population,
  without any outside aid, carried one-fifth of its own number for
  four months. It is necessary to stress this because the comment
  has been constantly made, outside the drought belt, that the local
11 regions should be urged to exert themselves and look after their
ll own misfortunes more than they are doing. Here in the Ken-
tucky Mountains is a district which, out of practically no surplus,
i cared for one-fifth of its inhabitants unaided. It is a record ‘
  characteristic of a proud and independent people and it would `
. be hard to match it in the world’s history.
In the foregoing table no mention is made of the milk sup-
A. ply. We found that 262 of the 1,175 families surveyed, with 808
  children, have no cows at all. A large proportion of the cows re-
l maining in the other families are dry. Conservatively, we esti- ·
mate that nearly one-half of our more than 4,000 children, half of
whom are babies and pre-school children, are entirely without
  milk.
At the present time of writing the American Red Cross is,
` of course, carrying on its beneficent program of famine relief
through volunteer committees of leading mountaineers and its
t own outstanding personnel. The method of the Red Cross,
which is one of giving grants for food on the nearest local
merchants, is admirable because it keeps the merchants going.
They have to haul the food in from the railroads and they are
able to feed their mules and carry on. However, the food al-
lowance is so low that it keeps the people barely above starva-
tion level. When food must be brought in from the outside (and
there is no food to buy on the inside) the hauling charges have
A to be added to the cost that townspeople would pay. Brought-
R. on flour and meal are more expensive than home-ground meal
was before the days of the drought. The Red Cross allowance

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for a family entirely without resources is $2.00 per person per A
month, with a maximum of $20.00 for the largest families of even gg  
A twelve or more people. This money, spent in brought-on food.
which must be hauled in from the railroad, and which is not as
nutritious as the home-ground meal, barely suffices to keep off
death. There is no margin to give a man working-calories, to
give children growth, to enable an expectant or a nursing mother
to carry her baby, or to stave 0H the ravaging effects of pellegra
and tuberculosis. No provision whatever is made for milk for
the young children. Fodder is now allowed for those who still
have cows, on a meager basis, but no allowance is made for the
mules, who are getting to be all bones and will be in no con-
dition to plow the spring crops.
The worst disaster in the history of the American people  
has overtaken the Southwest. At least a million people are A
involved in conditions of which these figures, taking in a sample
of the population, are accurate to the decimal point. Surely
the American public will respond loyally and fully to the Red ?
Cross appeal to enable larger rations to be allowed for people
and stock. In our own section, the Frontier Nursing Service is
providing cod liver oil for all families on Red Cross relief and
milk for the young children. Our American population is being 3
reduced to the physical level of Northern France during the late  
war. It is not possible to exaggerate the urgency of the situa— ‘
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MARY BRECKINRIDGE.
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A simple way to break the deadlock in Washington would {
be to call that relief fund a little item in national defense.  
Children who starve this winter will be of no use whatever in i
the next war.——The New Yorker.

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A class of third grade children reciting from one tattczed
book. Neither pencils nor paper in the entire school. A few
slates, but for the most part, the pupils practiced penmanship on
; the blackboard.
A family of eleven sitting down to a breakfast of cornbread
and potatoes. The same family sitting down to a dinner of corn—
bread and potatoes. The same family sitting down to a supper
; of cornbread and potatoes. .
T "Wells’ Outline of History" on the shelf above the fire in a
`I cabin inhabited by a so-called "ignorant" mountaineer and his
_ l family.
I Ten small children being operated for tonsils in the clinic
under the auspices of The Frontier Nursing Service. They had
\ only local anasthetic and were conscious of everything, and not
‘ one of them made a sound or winced.
l A little girl eating her first dish of ice cream in the hospital
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  V CAROLINE GARDNER.
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Executive Secretary in Chicago.

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for a family entirely without resources is $2.00 per person per ’
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month, and in special cases where there is sickness or preg-  
nancy to from $3.00 to $5.00 per person per month.  
The worst disaster in the history of the American people is
has overtaken the Southwest. At least a million people are K
involved in conditions of which these figures, taking in a sample ~
of the population, are accurate to the decimal point. Surely >
the American public will respond loyally and fully to the Red  
Cross appeal to enable larger rations to be allowed for people i
and stock. In our own section, the Frontier Nursing Service is
providing cod liver oil for all families on Red Cross relief and ,
milk for the young children. Our American population is being cl
reduced to the physical level of Northern France during the late I
war. It is not possible to exaggerate the urgency of the situa— W
tion. · I
MARY BRECKINRIDGE.
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be to call that relief fund a little item in national defense. ;}
Children who starve this winter will be of no use whatever in i
the next war.——The New Yorker.

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for a family entirely without resources is $2.00 per person per  
month, with a maximum of $20.00 for the largest families of even. _ M 
twelve or more people. This money, spent in brought-on food »
which must be hauled in from the railroad, and which is not as l
nutriti·ous as the home-ground meal, barely suffices to keep oif  
death. There is ·no margin to give a man working-calories, to  
give children growth, to enable an expectant or a nursing mother  
p to carry her baby, or to stave off the ravaging efects of pellegra l
and tubercul·osis. No provision whatever is made for milk for  
the young children. Fodder is now allowed for those who still A
have cows, on a meager basis, but no allowance is made for the  
mules, who are getting to be all bones and will be in no con-
dition to plow the spring crops.
The worst disaster in the history of the American people  
has overtaken the Southwest. At least a million people are  W
involved in conditions of which these figures, taking in a sample {
of the population, are accurate to the decimal point. Surely  l
the American public will respond loyally and fully to the Red ‘
Cross appeal to enable larger rations to be allowed for people  i
and stock. In our own section, the Frontier Nursing Service is  
providing cod liver oil for all families on Red Cross relief and id 
milk for the young children. Our American population is being 1
reduced to the physical level of Northern France during the late
war. It is not possible to exaggerate the urgency of the situa-
tion. “ · Q .
MARY BRECKINRIDGE.
A simple way to break the deadlock in Washington would 1
be to call that relief fund a little item in national defense.
Children who starve this winter will be of no use whatever in `
the next war.—The New Yorker.

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We are glad to say that the Red Cross allowance in
our districts has been increased to $2.50 per person per
month, and in special cases where there is sickness or preg-
nancy to from $3.00 to $5.00 per person per month.

 
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ti Ducks, geese and pigs wearing coll·ars of lath to prevent them
_, from squeezing between pickets into gardens. ·
  A one legged girl on a mule, her crutches strapped to her
I saddle, traveling to town, a distance of twenty-five miles. h
  A woman of twenty three who had lost every tooth except
- two snags which protruded from her upper gum like tusks. » ·
_ A woman of twenty-five, the mother of eight children. I
. ‘ thought she was fifty. I
  Five children sleeping in one bed. · ·
 f A girl of fourteen just married to a man of sixty-one. _
A.  A class of third grade children reciting fromaone tattered
l book. Neither pencils nor paper in the entire school. A few
 l slates, but for the most part, the pupils practiced penmanship on
\ the blackboard.
 I A family of eleven sitting down to a breakfast of cornbread
 V and potatoes. The same family sitting down to a dinner of corn—
* bread and potatoes. The same family sitting down to a supper
, of cornbread and potatoes. i
"Wells’ Outline of History" on the shelf above the fire in a
p cabin inhabited by a so-called “ignorant" mountaineer and his
_ family.
A Ten small children being operated for tonsils in the clinic
under the auspices of The Frontier Nursing Service. They had
only local anasthetic and were conscious of everything, and not
one of them made a sound or winced.
A little girl eating her first dish of ice cream in the hospital
at Hyden. -
_ CAROLINE GARDNER.
{ (Mrs. John Carnall Gardner)
Executive Secretary in Chicago.
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SEEN IN THE APPALACHIANS
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i Ducks, geese and pigs wearing collars of lath to prevent them
l from squeezing between pickets into gardens.
  A one legged girl on a mule, her crutches strapped to her
  saddle, traveling to town, a distance of twenty-five miles. _
  A woman of twenty three who had lost every tooth except
  two snags which protruded from her upper gum like tusks. - ·
  A woman of twenty-five, the mother of eight children. I ~
i ‘ thought she was fifty.
Five children sleeping in one bed. · ·
 , A girl of fourteen just married to a man of sixty-one. p
~ A class of third grade children reciting from one tattered
A book. Neither pencils nor paper in the entire school. A few
p slates, but for the most part, the pupils practiced penmanship on
2 the blackboard.
  A family of eleven sitting down to a breakfast of cornbread
and potatoes. The same family sitting down to a dinner of corn~
» bread and potatoes. The same family sitting down to a supper
  of cornbread and potatoes. a
I "Wells’ Outline of History" on the shelf above the fire in a
j cabin inhabited by a so-called "ignorant" mountaineer and his
_ family.
Ten small children being operated for tonsils in the clinic
under the auspices of The Frontier Nursing Service. They had
i only local anasthetic and were conscious of everything, and not
l one of them made a sound or winced.
; A little girl eating her first dish of ice cream in the hospital
i at Hyden.
Zi _ CAROLINE GARDNER.
ti (Mrs. John Carnall Gardner)
a Executive Secretary in Chicago.
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GOING OVER BIG  
On January 15th, 1931, the Frontier Nursing Service put  
over its first big entertainment in New York. Mecca Hall, one A
of the largest in the city, was rented for the occasion. The audi- I
ence was ushered in by fifteen very pretty debutantes, looking ’
extremely snappy in the nurses’ summer uniform. This Debutante i
Committee, organized by the Chairmen, Miss Doris Haveme-yer, i
Miss Dorothy King, Miss Frances Rousmaniere, showed itself I
equal to professional ushers. John Finley of the New York S
Times, "the best presiding officer in America," acted as Chair-
man. Max Mason, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, _
spoke on the unity and interdependence of the cosmos from the V
point of view of the physicist. C.-E. A. Winslow of Yale Uni- 1
versity spoke on the Frontier Nursing Service. These were fol- =
lowed by short speeches by Mrs. Breckinridge, and E. S. J ouett of 1
Louisville. Miss Ruth Draper interpreted the spirit of the even- l
ing in two peasant sketches—the New England porch scene and {
the Dalmatian peasant in the hospital. l
The evening came to a climax in Miss Marvin Breckinridge’s  
film, “The Forgotten Frontier," with a beautiful musical accom- 1
paniment contributed by Tertius Noble, the famous organist of  
St. Thomas’. On the platform also sat Mrs. Douglas Robinson, l
r representing the New York Committee, Mrs. Charles S. Shoe- ,
maker, representing the Pittsburgh Committee, Harry French A
Knight, representing the St. Louis Committee, Louis Dublin of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Dr. George W.
Kosmak. Miss Peacock and Miss Willeford, representing the _
Frontier Nursing Service staff, in full uniform, stood on either
side of the stage. ,
The purpose of the meeting was two-fold: I
a. To focus attention of the thinking public upon the `
remotely rural areas of America as an integral part
of our national life. ‘
b. To acquaint people with the work actually being car- I
ried out by the Frontier Nursing Service, Inc., in the '
Kentucky mountains.

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‘ At a meeting of the New York Committee on October 10th it
l was decided to form a sub-committee of the laywomen to work
I in conjunction with the staff of the New York office in prepar-
% ing the details of the meeting. Mrs. Langdon Marvin consented
to act as Chairman and arranged to have her sub-committee meet
I every week to outline the program and contribute valuable ad-
vice and assistance. Through the influence of this Committee
i the following patronesses consented to sponsor the meeting:
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| Mrs. August Belmont Mrs. James Alexander Miller
E Mrs. Linzee Blagden Mrs. David Milton
Mrs. de Brabant Mrs. William Church Osborn ,
· Mrs. John W. Davis Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt
; Mrs. W. L. Harkness Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee A
l Mrs·. D. F. Houston Mrs. Jesse I. Strauss
l Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt
I Mrs. Henry Goddard Leach Mrs. Frank Vanderlip
l Mrs. Grover Loening Mrs. Arthur Woods
E In order to put over the meeting the staff was increased
j to include Miss Janet Harlan, Miss Josephine Yandell and Miss
l Betty Terry on a part time basis, and Miss Katherine Garrison
  and Miss Esther Huntington on a full time basis, and a full
* time stenographer. Miss Jessie Carson, Contact Secretary, came
l to the New York office to take charge of the mailing lists and
l to supervise the clerical force necessary to send out the notices
for the meeting. The services of' these addressers was donated
for the month by the Proesser Fund for the Unemployed
» through the Emergency Work Bureau. During the last few
weeks before the meeting Miss Mary B. Willeford, Miss Gladys
, Peacock and Miss Elizabeth Boardman were helping at the New
I York office.
` In order to reach as large a public as possible and to keep
the Frontier Nursing Service continually before their eyes, the
following publicity program was carried out:
I About three weeks in advance of the meeting 34,000 hand
I addressed envelopes were sent out, each containing a program
folder, a ticket slip and a return envelope.

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Three hundred and fifty posters were printed with the
Fronti·er Nursing Service seal and a notice of the meeting, and _
‘ placed in hotels, clubs, restaurants, museums, professional of- ii
- fices, Fifth Avenue buses, and the Grand Central and Pennsyl- di
vania Stations. _ A
A movable window exhibit to be used as publicity for the 7
Frontier Nursing Service, depicting the interior of a typical  
cabin and family group, with a Frontier Nursing Service nurse I
fording a stream on the way to patient in a cabin in mountain i;
setting, was designed and executed by Dwight Franklin. This ig
exhibit was placed in a window at 620 Fifth Avenue.  
_ A second window exhibit—of a nurse in winter uniform ,
of the Frontier Nursing Service, Inc., seated on a horse with é
baby in arms. Mother of baby seated behind nurse on horse. ·
Back drop painted to represent cabin and country. This exhibit ¤
was placed in a window at 550 Fifth Avenue. -
Two booths were set up, in the Grand Central Station and t
the Commodore Hotel, for the sale of tickets and the distribu-
tion of pamphlets. » ;
Articles and notices were sent to various magazines such as  
The Spur and the Junior League Magazine, and technical pub-  
lications. Stories were sent almost daily to the metropolitan  
papers and appeared in the Evening and Morning World, The ,
Sun, The Herald Tribune, The Evening Post, The Telegraph é
and The Times. Rotogravure pictures appeared in The Times
and The Herald Tribune, and feature stories in The Times and
The World.
Advertisements were placed in sixteen theater and concert
programs, and in the amusement sections of six newspapers and ‘
The New Yorker.
. _ In thus bringing to the notice of the New York public, the
work of the Frontier Nursing Service, two thousand people-
new friends and old—came to see "The Forgotten Frontier."
Enthusiastic press notices, including an editorial in the New Y
York"Times, followed the meeting, not only in New York but 5
also in other parts of the country. According to a special dis- ·
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patch to the Lexington Herald, "the entertainment was one of
the most attractive of the winter season and the audience enthu-
? S siastic in its applause, and approval of the work of the service."
dj ANNE WINSLOW,
· Executive Secretary in New York.
Y 100 Per Cent Membership
I At a meeting of the Hyden District Committee of the Fron-
  tier Nursing Service early in January, a res·olution, proposed
ii by Mr. M. C. Begley, was passed endorsing the activities of the
Q Director in connection with the big meeting of January 15th in
‘ New York. Mr. Walter Hoskins then suggested that as Hyden `
T was the first district committee organized by the Frontier Nurs-
  ing Service and that area was the first to be covered by its V
2 work, that a committee be formed to ask each man and woman
_ in the County Seat of Hyden, if they had not already done so,
_ to take out a one-dollar membership in the Frontier Nursing
’ Service as a testimony of their cooperation and esteem. He
added, that in view of the hard times caused by the drought it
. would not, of course, be possible to get a membership from every
, citizen, but in order to have it 100 per cent he suggested that
  the few who were able to give five or ten dollars take out mem-
  berships for their less fortunate neighbors. The committee was
  formed immediately and the memberships were raised within
l five days. They went over the top through the system suggested
° by Mr. Hoskins and reported 100 per cent success.
This was announced at the meeting in New York at Mecca
Auditorium on January 15th and brought great applause.
~ We received from England last autumn a letter addressed .
as follows:
Frontier Nursing Service,
Kentucky Mountains,
U. S. A.
A No post office was indicated. The Kentucky mountains
J cover 40 counties and have a population of approximately 250,-
· 000. The letter was not delayed in transit.
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NANCY’S BABY
· This is the story of Nancy. Nancy is a pretty little thing  
with long, silky, dark hair and large brown eyes. She is only H,
just eighteen, but she has a little son who is thirteen months `
old himself. She, her young husband, his eight-year-old brother,
and Nancy’s baby live in a small one-room house with huge
cracks between the planks and around the fireplace. Their
water is terrible. It comes from a spring, but such a dirty one
it looks more like a stirred—up mud puddle. Is it any wonder
the baby got sick?
Nancy hadn’t lived in the district very long and even now
she is eight muleback miles from the center. So instead of
getting "the nurses" as many would, they went to the nearest
store at the crossroads, which carried everything, flour, horse-
shoes, dresses, candy, etc., and got a bottle of medicine——a very
wonderful patent medicine. A cure for all complaints—they
. were all written there on the label. However, it didn’t cure
Nancy’s baby. He only got worse. Finally, they did send for
us and we found a very sick baby indeed. The baby was still
nursing as there was no cow. He seemed just like a bundle of
skin and bone and such a feeble spark of life. Nancy felt that
she just couldn’t let the baby go to the hospital. Finally we got
the young husband started after the far-off doctor and after
leaving strict orders as to baby’s diet, we went sorrowfully
home.
The next day, as soon as the horse could make the two
hours journey, the nurse was back. She found that the doctor had
been there and left some medicine and a formula made with
lactic acid for the baby. The baby was much worse. Now he
lay hardly breathing. Yet if Nancy tried to leave him he would
moan and try pitifully to put up his little hands to hold her.
Nancy’s eyes now were big and dull with dark shadows under
them for she hadn’t slept for two nights. Upon careful inquiry  
the nurse found that Nancy had not quite understood the doctor A
, when he had explained how to make the formula. She was only  
eighteen and very tired. There didn’t seem to be much hope-

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there was -0ne time during the first few minutes of the visit
when the nurse thought the baby had died already. However,
Q we weren’t going to give up until we had to. The husband went
  out right away to a neighbor’s and came back with a pint of
i’ fresh milk. The nurse made the formula correctly and very,
very slowly, got the baby to take four teaspoonfuls and one of
the doctor’s pills. Nancy watched—learning just how to give
the feeding. In another hour, the nurse gave him another feed-
ing of four teaspoonfuls. That was the last time she fed him,
for eighteen-year-old Nancy took charge, giving him milk each
hour of the day and night and the little pill as it came due. The
next day, when the nurse came, the baby was still alive—no
more—but it was so much more than we had expected. We
tried giving him eight teaspoonfuls of his food after the nurse
had made it. Nancy again undertook to feed him this increased
amount every hour.
The very next day, the nurse found that the young husband
had gone to work and Nancy waited by the baby alone, but
there was a light in her eyes! When the nurse asked about the
baby Nancy replied he was "just the same," but the light still
stayed in her eyes. She knew the baby was better, but she did
so want someone else to say it first. The nurse said it, and
rushed the small boy off to tell the husband as· he had requested
(as though he would have left if he hadn’t known it himself!)
Of course, the baby was still very sick but, carefully, Nancy
nursed it back to health. Only once more did the nurse have to
make the formula. After that Nancy did everything—except
suggest the times and amount of feeding as they changed. .
The baby fully recovered and is now looking quite happy,
as is his mother. He takes cod liver oil each day but he is not o
gaining as he should. How can he? The drought did not pass
this· family by, and there is no cow, and how can the neighbors
take from their own children and give to those who are quite
Q well, even to Nancy’s baby?
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  ADA WORCESTER.
l Staff Nurse, Jessie Preston Draper Center.
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TRANSPORTIN G CHILDREN WITH PNEUMONIA
(From a Nurse’s Letter).
"We had to bring in to the hospital two children with pneu-
monia—a ten-year-old boy and a girl of seven. It was so diffi—
cult to get them in as we couldn’t get men and a stretcher in a  
hurry. The girl of seven we carried by taking turn-about. For  
the boy of ten we had a wonderful idea. We had three yarn  
blankets. We folded one, wrapped and pinned it around one ‘
leg, then folded the second blanket around the other leg. The  
I third blanket we took for a cloak, then put him on my horse’s  
saddle and his father "rode double" to suuport him. We made 1
the trip in just over an hour, while it would have taken three  
hours with a stretcher. {
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"The little girl of seven came from one of my very _poorest I
homes. She was wearing a thin, ragged dress and an old red `
sweater of her father’s and was lying among ragged quilts. Her w
twin brother had to give her his shoes and stockings as she had H
none, and we had to warm my blue slicker to wrap her in until
‘ we could get to a neighbor’s for blankets. I
"This year, life is so very much harder than it has ever g
been before."  
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· Miss Betty Lester, who has· been in the Service as staff
`·i" nurse-midwife for two and a half years, has been promoted to
midwifery supervisor, and as such has entered upon her new
duties by making a complete round of all the centers.
Miss Lois Harris, Miss Frances· Fell, and Miss Margaret
Oetjen returned to Kentucky the first week in December from
Scotland where they had taken their midwifery training under
the famous Queen’s Nurses in Edinburgh, and qualified for the
j C. M. B. Miss Harris has gone on duty at Brutus, Miss Fell at
  Bowling Town. Miss Oetjen has gone to Detroit for Public
  Health experience in the admirable Visiting Nurse Association
E there under Miss Sargent. Miss Harris and Miss Fell, each
5 “caught" her first baby in the Service o