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FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE QUARTERLY BULLETIN
Published Quarterly by the Frontier Nursing Service, Inc., Lexington, Ky.
Subscription Price $1.00 a. Year
Edit0r’s Office: \Vend0ver, Kentucky
VOLUME 36 SUMMER, 1960 NUMBER:
"Entered as second class matter June 30, 1926, at the Post Ofllce at Lexington, Ky., i
under Act of March 3, 1879."
Copyright, 1960, Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.

   coNTENTs
ART1c1.E AUTHOR PAGE
_ A Century of Nursing Two Boolc Reviews 35
 4 American Association of
·4  Nurse-Midwives 39
  Annual Report 2 t
  Because Someone Has Faith in Me
i# (Verse) Grace Noll Crowell 22
i  Before We Step Into the Wings Mary Breckinridge 21
  Beyond the Mountains 47
  Editor’s Own Page 51
3 Field Notes 52
 . Mr. Stork and Mr. Forest Fire Anna May January 23
 _ Old Courier News 27
 h Old Staff News 41
  Our Mail Bag 25
  Stone Masonry of Hyden Hospital
‘ Chapel (lllus.) W. B. Rogers Beasley, M.D. 17
 h Surgical Clinic at Hyden Hospital Photograph Inside back cover
  Water Safety (Illus.) Virginia Branham 31
 ` BRIEF BITS
  Ablutions of Nineteenth Century
 ; Boarding School Girls 40
 Y An Honest Laborer The Thonsandsticks 34
i Big Title on Door Doesn’t Mean Much Courier-Journal 20
  Higher Education in 1744 The Colonial Crier 26
_. Just Jokes 38
 h New Eyes for the Needy 40
 ‘ 3 Recommended Reading for Political
T Candidates 50
Thanksgiving Day Reunion 45
r Tit for Tat "Dow11 Under"' Contributed 24
Q White Elephant 46
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 2 1¤·1>.oN·r1ER NURSING SERVICE
I·IIFNER AND POTTER  
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS l
145 EAST HIGH  
LEXINGTON, KY.  
To the Officers and Trustees   yl
Frontier Nursing Service, Incorporated Y
Lexington, Kentucky  
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Ladies and Gentlemen:  
We have examined the balance sheet of the Frontier Nurs- l
ing Service, Incorporated as of April 30, 1960, and the statements , Q
of income and surplus for the fiscal year then ended, have I I
reviewed the system of internal control and accounting proce-
dures and, without making a detailed audit of the transactions,
have examined or tested the accounting records and other sup-  
porting evidence by methods and to the extent we deemed appro- f
priate. Our examination was made in accordance with generally Q I
accepted auditing standards and included all procedures which
We considered necessary in the circumstances. p
In our opinion, the accompanying balance sheet and related   .
statements of income and surplus present fairly the position of I ~
the Frontier Nursing Service, Incorporated at April 30, 1960, and f
the results of its operations for the fiscal year under review, in ,
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied , _
on a basis consistent with that of the preceding year. '
Respectfully submitted, 2 I
HIFNER AND POTTER  
Certined Public Accountants S ;
Lexington, Kentucky   1
May Twenty-seventh  
Nineteen Sixty ~

 QUARTERLY BULLETIN 2
2 THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT
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E ERONTIER NURSING SERVICE, Inc.
V   for the Fiscal Year
Q , May 1, 1959 to April 30, 1960
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Q PREFACE
i As has been our custom since we were one year old, we pre-
; sent our annual report of the fiscal affairs and of the field of
y operations of the Frontier Nursing Service, to its trustees, mem-
- 3 bers, and subscribers.
I We have, as in previous years, divided our report into two
sections. One section is about money, and one section about
i work.
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, FISCAL REPORT
  _ Our annual audit is so detailed, and therefore so voluminous,
; , that we do not print it in full. The figures that follow are taken
, I from the Exhibits and Schedules of the last audit. We have
—   divided these figures into four categories. The auditors’ own
y Summary is the first category. The second is their list of Endow-
1 ° ments and Reserves. The third category covers all Revenue
_ Receipts. The fourth category we have put into two columns-
i I to the left the expenditures of the last fiscal year taken from the
_ audit, and to the right the Budget accepted by our trustees for
  the current fiscal year, based on last year’s expenditures.
d E Under a fifth category, called Inventory, we account for all
V I our properties. All five categories are given in sequence on the
*   following pages.
l Under the heading of Conclusion, we tell something of what
A l the year has meant to us.
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REVENUE RECEIPTS  
Statement of Donations and Subscriptions Paid  
May 1, 1959 to April 30, 1960 {
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  Contributions ggggais E6}: Totals
Alpha Omicron Pi .............................................................. $ 4,120.50 $ 4,120.50 1
Baltimore Committee ..................................................... ... 1,002.00 1,002.00 l
Boston Committee ............................................................. 6,722.40 $ 6,000.00 12,722.40  
Chicago Committee ............................................... .. .......... 5,962.00 5,962.00 , 1
Cincinnati Committee ....................................................... 10,616.43 10,616.43  
Cleveland Committee ..................................................... 1. 18,357.59 18,357.59 Y ,
Daughters of Colonial Wars ............................................ 3,207.00 3,207.00 '  
Detroit Committee ................................. 1 ........................ 1 17,031.00 17,031-00 . {
Hartford Committee ......................................................... . 1,555.00 1,555.00 p
Kentucky:* ,
Blue Grass Committee .............................................. 5,857.50 5,857-50  
Louisville Committee ,.._.............................. -1 ........... 6,740.00 6,740.00  
Miscellaneous Kentucky ..,........................................ 3,512.24 3,512-24  
Minneapolis Committee .................................................... 1,349.50 1.349-50 1
New York Committee ............... 1 .......... 1 ..,.,..... 1 .......... 11 25,239.41 2,696.00 27.935-41 l
Philadelphia Committee ......,,__...__,____......,__,__.........., 1 ...... 5,169.24 1,804.00 6,973-2*1 —
Pittsburgh Committee ,,,,_____,_______,____,,_,,__,,__.,,,,..,............. 12,514.14 12.514-14
Princeton Committee _________________,___ 1 __,, 1 ,____..,,.,,.......,..., 1. 790.50 790-50
Providence Committee ______,________________________,_______,______,_,,,,,, 1,255.33 1.255-33 l
Riverdale Committee ____..___,__,___..______,___________,__________ 1 ....... . 1,382.00 1.382-00  
Rochester Committee ,,,,_______,___._____________________________,_,___,_,,, 2,582.89 2.582-89 [
Washington Committee** ________________________________________________ 6,883.65 697.00 7,580-05  
Miscellaneous ______________________ _ ______________________________ ____1 ,_______,_, 14,581.62 14.581-02  
Totals _________________________________________,_____________________.,_._.._.... $156,431.94 $11,197.00 $167,628-94  
* Total for Kentucky $16,109.74  
** Contributions through Beneht $1,268.00
OTHER REVENUE RECEIPTS: I
Fees for Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery ,,,___ 8,910.00
Payments from Patients:
Income from Nursing Centers ................................. 16,826.92
Medical and Surgical Fees ....................................... 7,386.90
Hyden Hospital Fees ................................................. 10,929.48 ` .
Hospital Clinic Funds and Supplies ....................... 9,299.80 44,443.10 Q
Wendover Post Omce ............,.,....................,.................... 4,555.66
Income from Investments ............................................... 66,022.14 `
"Wide Neighborhoods"—Roya1ties and Local Sa.les... 433.28 `
Livestock Sales ................................................................ 1,068.52 1
Miscellaneous ........._..____.,____,,_,,,,.,_,,.................................... 146.08 $125,578.78 E
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TOTAL—ALL REVENUE RECEIPTS ...... $293,207.72  

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  STATEMENT OF ENDOWMENT AND RESERVE FUNDS
Q April 30, 1959 and 1960
if Totalso Agditious A'1‘ota;1§0
El Designated F1u1ds—Income Restricted: A%:;i;3 mg 1;;:,0
., Joan Glancy Memorial Baby’s Crib ........................ $ 5,000.00 $ 5,000.00
·» Mary Ballard Morton Memorial .............................. 85,250.83 85,250.83
Q Jessie Preston Draper Memorial (1) ..................... 15,000.00 15,000.00
{ Jessie Preston Draper Memorial (2) ...................... 185,000.00 185,000.00
’ Belle Barrett Hughitt Memorial ............................. 16,000.00 16,000.00
Isabella George Jeffcott Memorial ......................... 2,500.00 2,500.00
, Bettie Starks Rodes Memorial Baby’s Crib .......... 5,000.00 5,000.00
i John Price Starks Memorial Baby’s Crib .............. 5,000.00 5,000.00
` Norah Oliver Shoemaker Memorial Baby’s Crib.. 5,000.00 5,000.00
1 Eliza Thackara Memorial ......................................... 2,156.06 $ 112.851 2,268.91
, * Children’s Christmas Fund in memory of
I Barbara Brown .......l........................................... 1,000.00 1,000.00
{ Donald R. McLennan Memorial Bed ........,...........,. 12,750.00 12,750.00
..1.} Louie A. Hall Legacy in memory of Sophronia
—: Brooks for a Center and its Endowment ....... 58,577.69 2,390.231 60,967.92
· § Margaret A. Pettet Legacy ...................................... 1,953.70 1,953.70
` , Jane Short Atwood Legacy ...................................... 7,500.00 7,500.00
f' Mrs. John W. Price, Jr. Fund .................................. 10,800.00 10,800.00
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  Sub—totals ............................................................. $418,488.28 $ 2,503.08 $ 420,991.36
ii Designated E\1nds——Income Unrestricted:
l, Marion E. Taylor Memorial ..................................... $ 10,000.00 $ 10,000.00
‘ Fannie Norris Fund ................................................... 10,000.00 10,000.00
{ Marie L. Willard Legacy ........................................... 3,127.36 3,127.36
». William Nelson Fant, Jr. Memorial ........................ 78,349.52 78,349.52
Mrs. Charles H. Moorman Fund .............................. 1,100.00 1,100.00
Lillian F. Eisaman Legacy ....................................... 5,000.00 5,000.00
. Lt. John M. Atherton Memorial .............................. 1,000.00 1,000.00
t Mrs. Morris B. Belknap Fund .................................. 26,375.00 26,375.00
_ Elisabeth Ireland Fund ............................................. 17,257.50 $ 5,200.00 22,457.50
[ Elizabeth Agnes Alexander Legacy ....................... 5,000.00 5,000.00
Richard D. McMahon Legacy .................................. 943.23 943.23
F Anonymous—General Endowment ......................... 137,496.50 137,496.50
l Mrs. W. Rodes Shackelford in memory of
g her two children ...............,...,.......,..................... 10,000.00 10,000.00
Q Hattie M. Strong Memorial ...................................... 10,000.00 10,000.00
;· Beulah Bruce Brennan Memorial ............................ 2,000.00 2,000.00
L Anna Rosina Gooch Memorial ................,.....,.....,.... 16,625.00 16,625.00
  Jeannie B. Trull Legacy ............................................ 33,253.33 33,253.33
  Elizabeth B. Perkins Legacy ........................_....._.... 152,970.44 152,970.44
Frances Kendall Ross Legacy ................................. 17,100.00 17,100.00
Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay Memorial ................... 5,000.00 5,000.00
Helen N. and Beatrice A. Wilson Fund .............._._. 5,000.00 5,000.00
Sophie Cogswell Stiger Memorial .............,.._....._..,_ 23,401.42 23,401.42
, Charles N. Kavanaugh, M.D. Memorial ................. 1,000.00 1,000.00
Margaret C. Breckinridge Legacy .......................... 3,000.00 3,000.00
Mary Hallock Armstrong Legacy ........................... 2,000.00 2,000.00
; Winifred Irene Leckie Memorial ............................. 1,000.00 1,000.00
I Lena G. Anderson Legacy ..................................._..... 7,078.50 7,078.50
, Eliza Davitt Hartley Legacy .....................__.__.,__,___, 150,000.00 150,000.00
Y Sub-totals ....................................... .. ........ .. .... ...$1,003,566.08 $157,703.08 $1,161,269.16
` Reserve Account:
i Mrs. Louise D. Crane ................................................. $ 4,000.00 $ 4,000.00
I Mrs. Frederic Moseley Sackett ............................... 10,000.00 10,000.00
Mrs. Eliza A. Browne ................................................ 16,000.00 16,000.00
° Winfield Baird Fund .................................................. 24,000.00 24,000.00
. Lillie McGinness Legacy ........................................... 2,500.00 2,500.00
g Harriett H. Grier Legacy ......................................... 5,000.00 5,000.00
; Maurice S. Miller Legacy ......................................... 5,000.00 5,000.00
Q Leila A. Morgan Legacy ........................................,.. 5,000.00 5,000.00
Z Totals ................................................................. $1,065,066.08 $167,703.08 $1,232,769.16
`_ 1 Income added to principal.

 BALANCE SHEET  
As at April 30, 1960
ASSETS
Cash on Hand——Petty Funds ...........,.,.......................A........>........... $ 505.00
Cash in Banks: J
Security Trust Company—General Account ...................... 3,623.81  
Security Trust Co1npany—Social Service and {
Alpha. Omicron Pi Account ............................................ 285.89 4
Security Trust Company——Staff Payroll Account .............. 2,228.71  
Security Trust Company—Frances Bolton {
Building Fund .................................................................. 1,034.16 Q
Peoples Bank, Hazard—Organization Account .................. 4,121.02  
Total Cash ...._.........,.....,............................................................................... $ 11,798.59 1 I
Temporary Loans Account ........................................................................................ 914.00  
U. S. Treasury Bonds (Frances Bolton Building Fund) ...................................... 20,846.49 L
Realty, Equipment and Livestock .........................................,.................................. 403,429.99
Endowment, Memorial and Reserve Fund Investments
at Original Costs, in Hands of:
Security Trust Company, Lexington, Kentucky ........ 825,021.83
Liberty National Bank & Trust Co., Louisville, Ky... 85,250.83 -
Guaranty Trust Company, New York City ................ 185,000.00
Bankers Trust Company, New York City .................... 137,496.50
Total Investments—Original Costs .................................................. 1,232,769.16 ·:
Total Assets ........................................................................................ 1,669,758.23
LIABILITIES
Accrued Payroll Taxes Withheld .................................................. 99.40
Notes Payable ..........l....................................................................... 17,000.00
Endowment, Memorial and Reserve Funds ................................ 1,232,769.16 1
Total Liabilities .......................................................................................... 1,249,868.56 §
Free Surplus ................................................................................................................ 419,889.67 R
Represented by-
Contributions and Income from Organization
to April 30, 1960 ................................................................ 5,481,387.88 5
Less: P I
Expenses paid from Organization to April 30, 1960.. 5,061,498.21
Net Income—Organization to April 30, 1960 ........................................................ 419,889.67 l ·
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Total Revenue Receipts .................................................................... 5,481,387 .88
Total Endowment Receipts ............................................................ 1,232,769.16 .
Total Monies Collected ................................................................................ $6,714,157.04

   LAST YEAR’S EXPENDITURES AND THIS YEAR’S BUDGET
I. FIELD EXPENSES: 1959-1960 1960-1961
(Hyden Hospital, Frontier Graduate School
of Midwifery, Wendover, and Six Nursing Centers
, 1. Salaries and Wages ......................................................,........... $103,723.19 $104,000.00
g 2. Medical Director and Relief ......,............................................. 7,958.33 14,000.00
I 3. Dispensary Supplies (See Note 1) ........................................ 29,343.06 31,000.00
  4. Running costs: Food—Mi.nus board of residents; cows,
{ fuel, electricity, laundry, freight and hauling, et cetera.. 36,979.62 40,000.00
Q 5. Feed and care of 17 horses and mules (See Note 2) ........ 6,480.26 6,000.00
  6. Jeeps (20), Truck, Station Wagon Ambulance .................. 11,631.68 13,000.00
Y 7. Maintenance of Properties ...................................................... 10,291.46* 14,400.00
  Total Field Expense .......................................................... $206,407.60 $222,400.00
II. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSE:
1. Salaries, Accounting and Auditing, Oiiice Supplies, Post-
age, Telephone and Telegraph, Printing, etc ....................... $ 33,890.08 $ 35,000.00
III. SOCIAL SECURITY TAX:
` $ 3,856.39 $ 4,000.00
IV. SOCIAL SERVICE:
, $ 11,713.89 $ 12,000.00
I V. GENERAL EXPENSE:
V 1. Insurance (Fire—$309,500.00 coverage), Employer’s Lia-
bility, full coverage on truck, 20 jeeps, and station
wagon .......................................................................................... $ 6,134.16 $ 6,600.00
2. Quarterly Bulletins (covered by subscriptions) ................ 4,851.81 4,800.00
} 3. Record Department ................................................................ 2,600.00 2,600.00
‘ 4. Miscellaneous Projects such as: Doctors and Nurses for
study and observation, professional books and magazines 999.97 1,000.00
g 5. Miscellaneous Promotional Expenses beyond the moun-
` tains .............................................................................................. 1,699.40 1,600.00
5 $ 16,285.34 $ 16,600.00
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TOTAL RUNNING EXPENSES ................................................ $272,153.30 $290,000.00
NEW LAND AND BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND
t . LIVESTOCK ADDITIONS .................................................... $ 51,963.96
TOTAL ................................................................................ . ...................... $324,117.26
A * Wages for maintenance charged to Wages Category.
Note 1: Approximately 1/3 of supplies relayed to Districts.
' Note 2: Five animals belong to FNS employees, who must ride to work.

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LAND, BUILDINGS, LIVESTOCK AND EQUIPMENT  
(From Exhibit C of the Audit)  
1NvENToRY i
Our auditors set a value of $403,429.99 on these holdings,  
after adjustments. Among the major holdings are the following: i
Hyden  
A stone Hospital, one wing of which is the Mary Ballard N
Morton Memorial, one wing the Mary Parker Gill Memorial, and _§
the frame Annex, a Memorial to "Jackie" Rousmaniere; Joy  
House, home of the Medical Director, a gift of Mrs. Henry B. 'C
Joy; Aunt Hattie’s Oak Barn, gift of Mrs. Henry Alvah Strong; j
Mardi Cottage, the Quarters for the Frontier Graduate School of c
Midwifery; The Margaret Voorhies Haggin Quarters for Nurses; Y
two water tanks; two employees’ cottages; and outbuildings ‘
such as garages, work shop, pighouses, forge, pump house, and  
two iire hose houses.  
Wendover
Three log houses, as follows: the Big House ("in memory of
Breckie and Polly"), the Old Cabin and the Ruth Draper Cabin; {
the Garden House; the Upper and Lower Shelf; the Couriers’
Log Barn and Aunt Jane’s Barn; numerous smaller buildings ’
such as the cow barn, cow hospital barn, mule barn, tool house, A
chicken houses, forge, apple house, pump house, jeep shed, two
fire hose houses, two water tanks, and the Pebble Work Shop. `
Georgia Wright Clearing I
A caretaker’s cottage and barn, extensive pasture land for ,
horses and cows; a bull’s barn and stockade; two wells.
Jessie Preston'Draper Memorial Nursing Center
(Beech Fork; Post Oflice, Asher, Leslie County) ,
Frame building and oak barn; deep well, pump house and
water tank; fenced acreage for pasture and gardens.
Frances Bolton Nursing Center
(Possum Bend; Post Office, Confluence, Leslie County)
Evacuated April 1, 1960, by orders of the Government of the
United States in behalf of the Buckhorn Dam Reservoir. Relo- ;
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  Clara Ford Nursing Center
  (Red Bird River; Post Ofiice, Peabody, Clay County)
f Log building and oak barn; fire hose house; walled-in spring;
  deep well, pump house and water tank; fenced acreage for pas-
  ture and gardens. .
( l Caroline Butler Atwood Memorial Nursing Center
5 (Flat Creek; Post Ofhce, Creekville, Clay County)
Q Frame building and oak barn; fire hose house; walled-in
{ spring; deep well, pump house and water tank; fenced acreage
{ for pasture and gardens.
i Belle Barrett Hughitt Memorial Nursing Center
L (Bullskin Creek; Post Office, Brutus, Clay County)
` Frame building and oak barn; jeep shed; fire hose house;
V walled-in spring; water tank; fenced acreage for pasture and
  gardens.
2 Margaret Durbin Harper Memorial Nursing Center
(Wolf Creek; Post Ofiice, Big Fork, Leslie County)
Frame building and oak barn; two-jeep garage; deep well
i and pump; fenced acreage for pasture and gardens.
' Subsidiary Clinics
. Six small clinic buildings on the following streams: Bull
Creek, Stinnet (Mary B. Willeford Memorial), Coon Creek (Coy
` Maggard Memorial), Sizerock on Upper Bullskin, and Mudlick.
’ Livestock
’ Eleven horses; one mule; one registered Guernsey bull;
eleven cows; four heifers; registered Hampshire brood sow, and
fourteen pigs; over two hundred chickens.
` Equipment
Equipment includes: twenty jeeps; one Ford station
( wagon—ambulance; one three-quarter ton truck; tanks; engines;
pumps; farm implements; plumbers’ tools; sixty-two pairs of
saddlebags; saddles; bridles; halters; hospital equipment and
furnishings; dispensary supplies; and household furnishings and
‘ equipment at Hyden, Wendover, and the six outpost centers,
variously located in a seven-hundred—square mile area.

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11.  
REPORT OF OPERATIONS i
The data in this section are supplied by the record depart-  
ment of the Frontier Nursing Service; by records kept on guests  
and volunteer workers; and by the social service department. "_
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MEDICAL AND SURGICAL I
To our unbounded joy, and that of our patients, our Medical
Director, Dr. W. B. Rogers Beasley, returned to us on August 1,
1959. This means that, except for the first three months, he has  `
carried our medical and surgical problems for the fiscal year that C
closed April 30, 1960. We have been trying ever since Dr. Beas- .
ley’s return to find an assistant for him, competent to help him  ‘Y
in emergency surgery and in ob-gyn, as well as to relieve for J
him when he is away. Our efforts so far have not been successful.  ,
This is our greatest need, in fact, a paramount need.  l'
We are grateful to Dr. Francis M. Massie and Dr. J. B. j
Holloway for the surgical clinics which they continued to give E
during this past fiscal year. Our gratitude goes out also to the
staff of the Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati for the wonderful 2 
pediatric clinics they held in here in the fall and in the spring ;
under their chief residents. The Children’s Hospital has con- Z
tinued to open its doors to the children with special pediatric
problems that Dr. Beasley sends to them, always without charge. ·
We extend our warm thanks to the Kentucky Crippled Chil-  .
dren’s Commission (now called the Commission for Handicapped  
Children) and the Kentucky Cancer Clinic for free care given
the patients we refer to them. I
Our thanks go too, as they do each year, to Dr. H. G. Reineke
of Cincinnati who reads Frontier Nursing Service x-rays for us ’
as a courtesy. A number of our needy patients have received H
courtesy care from physicians in Louisville, Lexington, and ,
Hazard.
Our very special thanks go to the Kentucky State Depart-
ment of Health for the kindness of its Commissioner, Dr. Russell  
E. Teague, and the directors of its divisions. Dr. Helen B. Fraser, I 
Director of the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, has been .

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  especially helpful to us. Our gratitude goes out in fullest meas-
  ure to the Kentucky Board of Nursing Education and Nurse
{ Registration and its Executive Secretary, Mrs. Marjorie C. Tyler,
[ for the consideration they have shown our Frontier Nurses.
:~ As you read the figures in the following sections, telling you
;· of the magnitude of the work carried during the past fiscal year,
l please bear in mind that the whole Frontier Nursing Service
‘ staff has worked as part-time volunteers. There is no member
of the staff who could not double and sometimes treble her salary
by taking an outside job. The costs of all of our operations have
_ risen so much in recent years that we have not been able to pay
 g salaries adequate for responsibilities carried and work done.
Our gratitude to the staff is matched only by our ardent wish
 I to meet a little more adequately the value of their services.
·° 2.
 f HYDEN HOSPITAL `
I Hyden Hospital—with 27 beds and 12 bassinets, 2 incubators
, —was occupied 7,222 days last year by 1,210 patients with a daily
` average of 20 patients at a cost per patient day of $11.44. Of
, the 1,210 patients cared for at the Hospital during the fiscal year, `
Q  250 were sick adults, 469 were obstetrical patients, 207 were chil-
  dren, and 284 were new born. There were 12 deaths in the Hos-
‘· pital, of which 6 were new born. There was no maternal death.
There were 79 operations performed. The out-patient depart-
` ment, with the Medical Director’s clinics, received a total of
p 10,410 visits.
  3.
q DISTRICT NURSING
In the 12 districts operated by the Service from the ITc··p’ta‘
, Wendover, and six outpost centers, we attended 11,112 people
. in 2,405 families. Of these, 5,275 were children, including 2,422
babies and toddlers. The district nurses paid 26,502 visits and
· received 22,688 visits at their nursing centers and at their special
clinics. Bedside nursing care was given in their homes to 1,973
sick people of whom 5 died. At the request of the State Board
  of Health, the Frontier Nursing Service gave 3,788 inoculations
 4 and vaccines against typhoid, diphtheria, smallpox, whooping
. cough, polio, et cetera, and sent 1,696 specimens for analysis.

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This part of our report has reference to general district  
nursing only and does not include midwifery carried day and  
night by the nurse-midwives along with their district nursing.  
The figures for midwifery are covered under the following section.  
MIDWIFERY
Registered Cases `
The nurse-midwives and the midwifery students of the  
Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery (under the supervision ”
of their instructors) attended 403 women in childbirth and gave i
them full prenatal and postpartum care. Of these 403 women,
9 were delivered by the Medical Director. There were 395 live *
births and 5 stillbirths; 7 deliveries of twins; 327 new cases .
admitted; 456 closed after postpartum care; 3 miscarriages.
There was no maternal death.
Emergency Cases—Unregistered
In addition to these regular registered maternity cases, the
Medical Director and the nurse-midwives were called in for 47 ‘
emergency deliveries, where the mother had not been registered
or given prenatal care, which resulted in 15 live births, and 32
emergency miscarriages (18 early, 14 late). Postpartum care -
was given to 8 other unregistered mothers. There was no A
maternal death.
Outside-Area Cases ‘
There were 126 women from outside our area who were
carried for prenatal care. Of these, 19 were closed before deliv-
ery. Most of our outside-area patients move into one of our dis-
tricts or our Hospital for delivery. In that case they are trans- ‘
ferred to our regular midwifery service. However, the nurse- V
midwives did go outside our area to deliver 24 such patients of 23 L
live babies (includes one late abortion), with no maternal death.
5. ·
FRONTIER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MIDWIFERY
The dates on which the two annual classes in the Frontier
Graduate School of Midwifery began have been changed from ,3
October and April to June 1 and December 1. Each class con-
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  taken in each class. The thirty-ninth class which opened June 1,
  1960, is now in attendance. When its work is completed on
  December 1, the School will have sent 215 nurses, qualified as
t midwives and in our frontier technique, to render service all over
1_ the world. Graduates of the School are in a number of our
  states, including Alaska, the Philippines, India, Thailand, South
; Korea, Canada, France, the Middle East, and in parts of Africa
Q and South America.
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i SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT
(Alpha Omicron Pi Fund and Other Grants)
A During the past fiscal year the Social Service Department
, of the Frontier Nursing Service has given financial aid to 188
families or individuals as follows:
Provided medicines for 16 patients
~ Paid for diagnostic X-rays for 7 people
Bought glasses for 22 patients (NEW EYES FOR THE
NEEDY FUND)
Paid dental bills for 5 patients
Provided orthopedic brace for 1 patient
Provided bus fare for 5 school students
W Paid all or part of city hospital bills for 22 patients
Paid doctors’ bills for 12 patients
Bought coal for 2 destitute families
Paid for extra coal for 18 families——needed on account of
exceptionally long cold winter
Gave groceries to 33 families—a total of 80 orders
Provided school clothes and shoes for 10 children
A Provided monthly allowance for 3 High School students
‘ Provided seed potatoes and garden seeds for 28 families
`, Provided school lunches (hot) for 22 children
Paid boarding s