This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...when the snow is deep, and the men come from the warm mine into the severe cold outside, she has many cases of pneumonia to nurse. She is always there to welcome each little newcomer into the world. She watches constantly over all the children in the town, visiting often in their schools and homes. She is teaching the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...when the snow is deep, and the men come from the warm mine into the severe cold outside, she has many cases of pneumonia to nurse. She is always there to welcome each little newcomer into the world. She watches constantly over all the children in the town, visiting often in their schools and homes. She is teaching the boys and girls good hygienic habits that will keep them sturdy and fit. Once in a while she descends into the cities for a bit of theater, the opera and the shops. And then she returns to this little town up in the heart of the beautiful mountains, and again keeps watch over her people. What nurse would not like to be in her place? Works In All Seasons. Another nurse is the only one in a big county in the Michigan peninsula. When the snows are heavy she goes about from home to home and school to school on snowshoes. In the summer, when the roads are open, it is an easy matter to cover the ground in an automobile. Dentists are few and far between in this remote county, and the farmers are too busy to take their children to his distant office. So, among many other things, this nurse has worked out a plan by which on a certain day one farmer collects all the children in a given area and brings them to the dentist and takes them home again. A different group of children is brought in each week. In another county the nurse works out an itinerary and makes all the appointments and the dentist, carrying his paraphernalia in a wagon, goes from place to place, and setting up his equipment under a tree wherever the children are gathered, Alls and attends to their teeth and then packs up and goes to the next group. Down in the southern mountains, where we find our simon pure Americans who have been shut in these many years from the progress of the outsid...
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