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February, If.30 The Health Bulletin 7 all working together have proved that the job can be done surprisingly well. One of these citizens' groups whose activities are particularly noteworthy is the Maternity Welfare Committee of Pinebluff. Under the chairmanship of Mrs. Walter MacNeille, this committee, composed of eighteen or twenty energetic, kind-hearted women of the village community, supports the maternity and infancy work of Moore County in numerous ways. In addition to raising a sum of from three to five hundred dollars annually to be used in purchasing food, clothes, medicine and doctor's care for the neediest patients, they look up and transport needy patients to the hospital and clinics, they follow up and investigate referred cases, assist at local clinics and provide work for men and women who are able to repay for some service rendered them or their families. Funds are raised through donations of cash, donations of articles to sell or material to be converted into clothes, layettes or bassinets; through the Good-will Shop which sells secondhand articles from clothes, furs and jewelry to andirons and pokers; and through commissions on the sale of certain articles and services. A special activity of this committee is sewing, making garments for the poor. The members meet one afternoon each week at the home of the chairman, who has converted her sleeping porch into a well-equipped sewing room. Here they make layettes and bassinets with all their fittings for the needy. The group made eighty-five bassinets last year, whose cost and that of their fittings averaged §5.00 each. The services and cooperative efforts of this fine group of citizens is beyond calculation in its relation to reducing the sickness and suffering of mothers and babies in Moore County. Another citizens' group that has pointed the way of service, especially for younger women, is the Junior Guild of Rocky Mount. This group of fine, intelligent young matrons and girls responded to the call of the city health officer for volunteer work and funds in behalf of the indigent mothers and needy babies of Rocky Mount. Forty or more enlisted for service and organized themselves into the Junior Guild, an organization patterned along the lines of Junior Leagues of larger cities. They took for their objective the challenge to reduce infant mortality in their community. A plan was adopted whereby each underprivileged baby was made the responsibility of two of the members, who were required to visit the child once a week, provide cod liver oil, milk, clothing, or other supplies which the family could not afford for the baby, and furnish transportation for the mother and child to the maternity and infancy center on the days it was held. The Guild has had under its care throughout the year between forty and fifty babies, and incidentally, their mothers. The babies' health and welfare are supervised through infancy and early childhood and often through the preschool years. The members work in close cooperation with the physicians, city health department, the public welfare workers and other local agencies. A recent visit by the writer to the Junior Guild headquarters found the members busy and enthusiastic about what they were able to do and contemplated doing in the future. They admitted that they had less time for bridge, parties and movies, but that they found a satisfaction in service which more than repaid them. The Ahoskie Woman's Club illustrates what a club or similar organization can do to meet a local need. Two years ago this group of earnest women sponsored the establishment of a Maternity and Infancy Center in
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-04: The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1939 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-054 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 54 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 7 |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1939 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-054-0029 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 54 |
Issue Number | 2 |
Page Number | 7 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | February, If.30 The Health Bulletin 7 all working together have proved that the job can be done surprisingly well. One of these citizens' groups whose activities are particularly noteworthy is the Maternity Welfare Committee of Pinebluff. Under the chairmanship of Mrs. Walter MacNeille, this committee, composed of eighteen or twenty energetic, kind-hearted women of the village community, supports the maternity and infancy work of Moore County in numerous ways. In addition to raising a sum of from three to five hundred dollars annually to be used in purchasing food, clothes, medicine and doctor's care for the neediest patients, they look up and transport needy patients to the hospital and clinics, they follow up and investigate referred cases, assist at local clinics and provide work for men and women who are able to repay for some service rendered them or their families. Funds are raised through donations of cash, donations of articles to sell or material to be converted into clothes, layettes or bassinets; through the Good-will Shop which sells secondhand articles from clothes, furs and jewelry to andirons and pokers; and through commissions on the sale of certain articles and services. A special activity of this committee is sewing, making garments for the poor. The members meet one afternoon each week at the home of the chairman, who has converted her sleeping porch into a well-equipped sewing room. Here they make layettes and bassinets with all their fittings for the needy. The group made eighty-five bassinets last year, whose cost and that of their fittings averaged §5.00 each. The services and cooperative efforts of this fine group of citizens is beyond calculation in its relation to reducing the sickness and suffering of mothers and babies in Moore County. Another citizens' group that has pointed the way of service, especially for younger women, is the Junior Guild of Rocky Mount. This group of fine, intelligent young matrons and girls responded to the call of the city health officer for volunteer work and funds in behalf of the indigent mothers and needy babies of Rocky Mount. Forty or more enlisted for service and organized themselves into the Junior Guild, an organization patterned along the lines of Junior Leagues of larger cities. They took for their objective the challenge to reduce infant mortality in their community. A plan was adopted whereby each underprivileged baby was made the responsibility of two of the members, who were required to visit the child once a week, provide cod liver oil, milk, clothing, or other supplies which the family could not afford for the baby, and furnish transportation for the mother and child to the maternity and infancy center on the days it was held. The Guild has had under its care throughout the year between forty and fifty babies, and incidentally, their mothers. The babies' health and welfare are supervised through infancy and early childhood and often through the preschool years. The members work in close cooperation with the physicians, city health department, the public welfare workers and other local agencies. A recent visit by the writer to the Junior Guild headquarters found the members busy and enthusiastic about what they were able to do and contemplated doing in the future. They admitted that they had less time for bridge, parties and movies, but that they found a satisfaction in service which more than repaid them. The Ahoskie Woman's Club illustrates what a club or similar organization can do to meet a local need. Two years ago this group of earnest women sponsored the establishment of a Maternity and Infancy Center in |
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Article Title | Citizens' Groups Prove Helpful in Saving Lives of Mothers and Babies |
Article Author | Highsmith, J. Henry |
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