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THE KENTUCKY COMMITTEE FOR
MOTHERS AND BABIES, INC.
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"He shall gather the lambs with his arm
and carry them in his bosom, and shall
gently lead those that are with young."
Its purpose: `
"To safeguard the lives and health of mothers and young
children by providing trained nurse-midwives for rural areas
where there are no resident physicians—these nu1·se-midwives
to work under supervision; in compliance with the Regulations
for Midwives of the State Board of Health, and the law govern-
ing the Registration of Nurses in Kentucky; and in co-operation
with the nearest medical service."
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Chairman  
Alexander J. A. Alexander, Spring Station, \'\’oodford County i,
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Mrs. S. C. Henning, Cherokee Park, Louisville  
Judge Edward O'Rear, Frankfort  
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C. N. Manning, Security Trust Company, Lexington  
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Mrs. XV. H. Coffman, Georgetown  
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Mrs, Joseph Carter, Versailles  
Dr. Josephine Hunt, Lexington i
Mrs. Preston Johnston, Fayette County  
E. S. Jouett, Louisville }
Mrs. Frank McVey, Lexington  
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Miss Linda Neville, Lexington ~
Dr. Scott Breclrinrldge, Lexington l,
Chairman Leslie County Branch Committee I
Judge Wm. Dixon, \Vooton
Hon. Member
Dr. Arthur McCormack, State Board of Health, Louisville i
Director l
Mrs. Mary Breckinrldge. R. N., Hyden. Leslie County {
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* MEMBERS
Tir. Irvin Abel. Loulsvllle. Mrs. Jeter Horton, \\'ashington, D. C.
i Mrs. A. J. A. Alexander, \\'oodford County. Mrs. Churchill Humphrey, Louisville,
Q Judge Lafon Allen, Louisville. Clay Ilunt, Lexington.
i Mrs. Claude Barnes, Louisville. George Hunt. Lexington.
i Mrs. Franvis R. Beattie. Louisville. Mrs. George Hunt, Lexington.
Q Mrs. \V, R. Belknap, Louisville. President. \\'illiam J. Hutchins. Berea.
Q K Deslia Breekinrldge, Lexington. Miss Muriel Hopkins, University of Ky.
g Col. Jas. C. Breekinrldge, \\’ashington, D. C. Miss Mary Johnston, Louisville.
  Mrs. John C. Brecklnridge, New York City. Mirs Flora Keene, R. N., Somerset.
li Miss Soplionisba P. Breekinridge. Chicago. Mrs. Mary Breekinridge Malthy. Lexington.
iv Hon. H. M. Brock, Harlan. Very Rev. Robt. K. Massie, D.D., Lexington.
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  Miss Elizabeth Bruce, R. N., Louisville. Pres. Frank L. McVey, University of Ky.
  Cabell ll. Bullock, Lexington. Mrs. J. R. Morton, Lexington.
  Dr. Waller Bullock, Lexington. Rev. li. Y. Mullins, D. D., Louisville.
  Rev. llenj. J. Hush, D. D., Lexington Miss Bettie Meljenailvl, R. N., Louisville.
  Mirs Harriet Cleek. R. N., Lexington. Dr. Barnett Owen, Louisville.
  Hon. Thos. Combs, Lexington Miss Katherine N. Pettit. Pine Mountain.
  Attilla Cox, Louisville. Dr. Alice N. Pickett. Louisville.
  Miss Bessie L. Daingerfield, Beattyville. Mrs. E. S. Porter, Louisville. _
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,· Rt. Rev. U. V. XV. Darlington, Huntington. \\'m. Preston, Fayette County.
i John B. Eversole, Lexington U Mrs. Annie R. Richards, Owingsville.
  _ Dr. J. A. Flexner, Louisville. Mrs. James Roberts, Frankfort. U
5 Rev,,A. \\’. Fortune, D. D., Lexington. Mrs. \Villiam Fiinins, \Voodford County.
l Miss Lucy `Furman, Hindman. . Miss Joseplione Clay Simpson. Lexington.
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  Hon. Alex Hargis, Jackson. Mrs. James Splllman, Harrodsburg.
I Mrs. Louis L. Ilaggin, Fayette County. Miss May Stone. Hindman.
1 Mrs.   H. Halley, Fayette County. Dr. J. A. Stuekey. Lexington.
{ Mrs. Arch L. Hamilton, Lexington. Rev. Charles \V. \Velch, D. D., Louisville.
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| J. L. Harman, Bowling Green. Mrs. E, \\'aring \Vilson. Rosemont, Penn.
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i Mrs. French Hawk, Hihitesburg. Rev. C. M. Vander Meulen. D. D., Louisville.
I Mrs. Roy Helm, Hazard. Miss Ellen Young, Henderson.
 
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"Here shall you see no enemy
{ But winter and rough weather."
The work in Leslie County during the past quarter has
been hampered, but not held up, by rough weather. From  
the first snowfall in October on through the winter, the nurses Q;
have worked under difficulties, with what Galsworthy calls W
"nature with a small n." Miss Rockstroh came in one night
literally frozen into her clothes and onto her saddle. It had rained
and wet her through, then on her homeward ride it sleeted.
Two men had to lift her off the horse, her hat was pried loose,
and her poncho, stiff as a board, lifted over her head. So, loosed
from her bonds, she emerged every inch a nurse.
Several times the river has frozen hard except at the rapids,
near which one commonly finds the fords. The horses crashed
through the icy banks to the open stream often with bleeding
hocks, and sometimes a way was made for them by a chivalrous
mountaineer with his ax. More than once the fords were too
high for fording and the horses swam over with nurse, saddle-
bags and all. Upon one such occasion a kindly woman ran
down to the bank to meet Miss Logan on her return, saying-
"The river’s dangerous, let me carry you over in my boat and
my man will take your horse."
When the "tides" came the river was impassible on horse-
back, but the nurses met the calls from "yon side" by crossing a
high swinging foot bridge, subject to collapse if its pillars
loosened, and getting a stray mule, or else footing it in the storm.
No weather arose during which the calls of the sick and the mid-
wifery cases, of which thirty-nine have been registered to date,
were unmet. Much of the public health had to slide, however,
and several cases scheduled for the Louisville and Lexington
hospitals had to be held over.
SPECIAL CASES
One of the most enduring things opcn to a remotely rural  
service like ours is the liaison it can effect between the needs of  
the rural section and the hospitals and specialists in the cities.
This is best illustrated by specified cases.

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SURGERY
The case of Dewey A., a four-year-old boy who had been
terribly burned a year before. When we found him his right
p arm had grown to his side like a wing. We carried him over
  i the twenty-five miles of mountain trail from his home to the
  railroad, and then the night’s ride by train to Lexington. There
» he occupied the free room Dr. Barrow has endowed in memory
of his son at St. Joseph’s Hospital, and Dr. Rankin released
the little imprisoned arm and grafted skin over the ruined tissue.
After weeks of hospital care, followed by a visit at the country
home of Mrs. Preston Johnston, ever open to our hospital cases,
Dewey returned to Camp Creek, very brave as to appearance
with a blue coat and brass buttons, and loaded with toys and
love and good will.
MEDICINE
When we found Mrs. M. on another creek of that far
country, she had ulcerated legs and other undesirable symptoms.
On one of the passes so generously furnished by the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, we got her to Lexington. Her husband and
older children gladly made up the $20.00 hospital charge for
the two weeks she stayed there. Dr. Hunt, our first-aid for
all cases, and Dr. Harvey, made her diagnosis and worked out
her diet, and taught her to give herself insulin. Now she is
back in the home where she is adored, with our help she follows
Dr. Harvey’s treatment, gives herself her own hypodermics of
insulin, and instead of facing coma and death she lives to rear
her younger children and leave behind her a brood as intelligent
. and gallant as herself.
EMERGENCY
John J., of Hurricane Creek, age sixteen, came to us with a
crushed right hand. We hurried him down to Lexington. At
A first amputation was thought essential, but curetting and deep
f` , drainage under Dr. Massie’s care, have saved the right hand and
  John is back again on Hurricane Creek, where he uses it power-
fully and to some purpose, felling timber and preparing "rafts"
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PEDIATRICS
p Denny, age ten months, came from Coon Creek, and we did  
i not think he would live through the ride down, on a pillow on the `
pummel of Miss Rockstroh’s saddle. The Children’s Hospital _ l
at Louisville, received him, but later Mrs. Henning carried him
out to her spacious place in the country and kept him there for y
six weeks with a special nurse. Dr. Bruce handled his case.  
He was covered with carbuncles, "utter Lazarus, heel to head," `¤
his torture patiently borne with old, sad eyes. Now Denny is a  
radiant toddling baby-  
"God’s sunshine asleep in his tresses  
H God’s glory a gleam in his eycs."  
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There has been no occasion yet to send out a case because l
of threatened complications——but Miss Caffin has three women ,
whose motherhood has proved difficult or disastrous in the past, B
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help as they need. ‘  
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services of our leading doctors free of charge. Would these  
services have been possible for the people in that far country
without a nursing organization to act as go-between? No, life Q,
would have gone out for Denny, Dewey would be a helpless  
cripple, John a one-armed man or dead from blood poisoning, and  
Mrs. M’s younger children would have been motherless.  
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wENDovER ‘  
Building has not been easy during the winter, but Wendover  
is nearing completion. Built of logs in the heart of a forest, ,
with stone foundations and chimneys, and by native workmen,  
in the main, it is nursing center, administrative headquarters, r
and guest house for our friends. The two great difficulties  
have been hauling and rough weather. To get supplies from i
the railroad in winter has taken a team two and a half days and
two nights for each load, going down and returning. And the  
storms have beaten down many things as fast as reared. The ?
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had to be riprapped back. It fell on the chicken house, it slid
i into the reservoir, it sent foaming torrents through the cellar.
i The trails gave way with great rents and had to be repaired
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` li- be hauled over them. The river rose and carried away the logs
left near its uncertain boundaries. A
5 But Wendove1· is going strong at last and is one of the
T most useful places in the world. Vacant houses in Leslie County
t are almost non-existent and other centers for our growing work
  desperately needed. St. Donald of Abernathy is said to have
i lived in a hollow oak with his nine virgin daughters, and to have
j "lacked nothing." But the oaks and beeches and linns and
  walnuts of our Appalachians have shrunk to smaller proportions
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2 cramped quarters in them, and for nurses and dispensaries there
{ must be cabins. We invite correspondence from anyone who
  would like to build a cabin.
  LOOKING AHEAD
il With future growth in mind, on wider fields of service, we
  have linked up with groups in New York and Boston. The
j nucleus of a committee has been formed in both cities, with the
Q following members to date:
  IN NEW YORK
  Mrs. Francis Boardman Dr. Henry Hamilton M. Lyle
  Mrs. John C. Breckinridge Miss Anne Morgan
l Colonel Francis Gordon Caffey Miss Margaret Parsons
Q Mrs. Cleveland H. Dodge Miss Elizabeth Perkins
  Mrs. Archibald H. Douglas Mrs. A. de Acosta Root
’ Miss Edith M. Hadley Mr. Henry Randolph Sutphen
Q Dr. Ralph Waldo Lobenstine Mrs. Henry Matson Waite
  Professor C. E. A. Winslow ·
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i Mrs. Guy R. Agassiz Mrs. Homer B. Richardson
Mrs. Nathaniel Ayer, Mrs. Henry H. Sprague
{Q Miss R. Dexter Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer
5 Mrs. Robert Lovett Mrs. W. W. Vaughan
i Mrs. Bassett Wendell
Q A full financial report and list of subscribers will accompany
  our next issue at the close of our first fiscal year.

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C. N. MANNING, Treasurer _ I
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Dear Sir:   .
I subscribe ' I
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If you wish to make a special donation, I
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$6000 will build a health center for the work of two nurse- I
midwives I
700 will furnish a center I
450 will equip the dispensary for the center I
1800 is the yearly salary for one nurse-midwife {
125 will buy a horse {
360 a year will maintain a horse I
20 will buy a saddle §
13 will buy a pair of saddle bags for nurse’s supplies I
8 will buy a homemade press for dispensary supplies I
2 will buy a split bottom chair I
2 will buy a bridle or a horse blanket I
1 will haul 100 pounds of equipment from the railroad I
to nursing headquarters I
Make cheques payable to C. N. Manning, Treasurer, I
Security Trust Co., Lexington, Ky. i
For further information address the Director, I
Mrs. Mary Breckinridge, Hyden, Leslie County, Ky.  

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