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I Newfoundland and South Africa up Against Same
Problems as Rural America
.A LETTER TO Mass ELLEN HALSALL, NURSE M|¤w1FE, KENTUCKY
COMMITTEE FOR MOTHERS AND BABIES, INC., HYDEN, KY.
- ‘ Garnish, Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, i
October 4, 1926.
Dear Miss Halsall: H
I was most interested to read your letter in Nursing Notes t
(England) for September. Well, I am nursing here for the
Newfoundland Outpost Nursing and Industrial Association and T
I think the work and conditions are similar to yours. I am an
English trained nurse and took my Central Midwives Board in
London. The roads here are very bad and my nearest doctor 25
miles away and in the spring and winter I am unable to get him '
at all. I have all work to do—dental extractions, midwifery and I
all accidents as well as dispensing.
The whole settlement is related as they seldom go outside
_ and there are a lot here who have never been away from it or .
who have never s·een a train. Quite a lot cannot read or write.
The houses are wooden and it is nothing to be able to see thro’
the bedroom Hoor to the kitchen! No sanitary conditions here. U,
very primitive in every way but they are kindness itself.
I have been here two years and am now starting my third it
year. I came out under the Overseas Nursing Association,
London.
If you are not too busy I would like to hear from you. I go _
about by pony and sleigh in the winter and in the summer horse .
and carriage if I have to go any distance. ·
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(Signed) Gladys Hughes, S.R.N. by
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A LETTER TO Mass EDNA C,~ROCKSTROH, R.N., 1-•v¤EN, KENTUCKY, .
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Choma N. Rhodesia, South Africa,
Macha Mission,
April 18, 1927.
5 My Dear Miss Rockstroh:
!; I have j us·t read your most interesting article in the March
ll number of "The American Journal of Nursing." Your work
must be most interesting and helpful to those people, finest early
American stock as you said.
{ The part which has been of greatest interest to me, in your -
article, was the saddle bag. Perhaps you will wonder why. I
T have been looking for something convenient for carrying medical
l supplies over these African woods and plains. We do not have
I horses here but we do have donkeys and a motor-byke for use
when convenient.
· I am a graduate from the "Englew0od Hospital" of Chicago.
~ Have been in Africa just three years as a Medical Missionary.
g The work is most interesting and I enjoy it even amidst the in-
V conveniences and difficulties. We are three days journey from
a physician, so many times you may know I feel that deprivation
I keenly.
Now this is what I should like to ask,—would it be possible
to purchase these bags either equipped or unequipped? If so
what is the price?
I · I shall be happy to receive a reply from you concerning this ·
-1 or any other suggestion you may have.
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°' I wish you every success in your noble work.
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V` (Signed) Martha M. Kauffman, R.N.
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I Difficulties of Remoteness in Childbirth A
During the month of July we had two of the gravest I
obstetrical complications that exist (placenta praevia), and 4
from the bottom of our hearts we are glad to be able to report 4
that both mothers are living. Nothing could better describe the 1
difficulty of getting medical s·ervice in the country than the fact _
that we sent to four counties for the first of these cases before {Q I
we could get a doctor. Leslie’s doctor was on a holiday, the
nearest doctor in Bell County was also on holiday, the nearest *
doctor in Harlan County could not come, but finally we got one i
in Perry County, who rode thirty-three miles through the night
on horseback to reach the patient. But if there had been no
service of nurse-midwives there would have been no doctor sum- I
moned, because there would have been no one who understood J
the need of making this desperate effort to get a doctor. p
For the second complication the doctor did not arrive in .
time and the nurse-midwife had to carry on until his arrival
some hours later. He wrote afterwards:
"Hazard, Kentucky,
July 23, 1927
"I sure was glad to hear about both patients getting `
so much better. Also was· glad to find Mrs. -—— better
when I got there. If Miss Caffin had not had the nerve
to plunge and take hold she .would have been a dead
patient by the time I got there. So we certainly have A
to commend her for bravery, and I think she deserves
a medal more so than Lindbergh.
J. P. Boggs, M. D."
. Everybody interested in the Kentucky Committee’s program
for reducing the maternal and infant death rate in rural
America, is advised to read "Observations on the Maternal F
Mortality in the Midwifery Service of the Queen Victoria’s J
Jubilee Institute" by John S. Fairbairn, M.A., B.M., B.Ch.Oxon., `,_
F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., obstetric physician to St. Thomas’s Hospital, _‘
in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal. We have reprints i
of this article in "Nursing Notes" for March, 1927, which we will ,i
be glad to send to anyone interested enough to apply for them. gi
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mortality in the United States was
I the highest in the civilized world. * *
1 "It is a grave thing for a nation to
lose by death 18,000 young women in
` childbirth and approximately 100,000
. OU" Death Rafe °f M°th€"$ ls Hl9h· dead infants as the immediate result
2 est in World, Newman Says of childbirth," Sir George said. "We
,_ in Yale |_€ctuI.€_ have here the origin of one of the
most acute social problems of our
"’ L"` times, one of the factors where the
SEES BIG SOCIAL PROBLEM most intimate and complex social dis-
I harmonies are actually being created
————— year after year. We seek by effort
_ _ _ _ and enormous expenditure of wealth
. Civilization Has Mastered Plague, . . .
3 to diminish the effects, but we are
n' but Faces New Causes °f doing little to remove its cause." * *
Mortality, He Declares.
` Maternal Mortality Highest Here_
` "_'_ Sir George declared that the "pres-
I (TLC Nolo YO7_II_ Times} IIVLIY 26, 1927) ent maternal mortality of.America is
the highest among the civilized na-
` New Haven Conn- May 25·_Th€ tions of the earth, and twice that of
"makiug and safeguarding of its Great Britain." ni relation to the
mothers" was tonight pronounced by Alll€l`lC8¤ D05i€l0ll he saidr
Sir George Newman of England to be HIP America mam? more deaths are
_ the greatest physiological pi-Obigm be. li;gib‘;m;’1€*p;;)l;°i1I;;‘;;lIi‘;2*21;
fom any nation H9 Spoke at Yale attributed to childbirth are propor-
lll 1119 Dodge 1€€t¤l`€ €0¤l`5€ OH “R€· tionately more numerous, estimated
sponsibilities of Citizenship," devot— 111 1925 at H0t 1655 Ulall 18.0000, €0lll·
ing his talk to health problems which pared with 2*700 in England and
. . . . . \Vales. Thus the total maternity mor-
. have become prominent in c1vil1za— _ , . .
tality in America is 7.5 as compared
I ti°H· with 3.8 per 1,000 births in Eng-
He stressed health and death statis- land. * * *
tics. particularly those of infant mor- "In no state in the Union is there
tality, asserting that problems relat— a maternal mortality rate similar to
ing to deaths which are associated that of England, which is, in any case,
with maternity. abound in Amer- much higher than it ought to be
ica. * * * "After examining the official re-
j He stated that there was reduced turn of the last tive years I cannot
3 ’ fertility among women in modern escape the conclusion that the ma-
_l civilized communities, a relatively ternal mortality rate in America is a
high maternal mortality and a heavy grave problem calling for the most
burden of invalidity among the sur- serious attention of the American
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‘ The Summer’s News in Leslie County
Work has begun on the Hyden Health Center and cottage
hospital at the beautiful site on the slopes of Thousandsticks
Mountain above Hyden, donated by our State Chairman, Alex-
ander J. A. Alexander. This building which will be of the V
native stone, is in two sections, each section a memorial to a
Louisville, Kentucky, woman. The central section is the gift yl
of the estate of Mary Parker Gill through the United States Trust
Co., in her memory. The right wing is the gift of Mrs. S. Thrus-
ton Ballard in memory of her daughter, Mrs. David Morton. The C
Hyden District Nursing Committee has on hand as its contribu-
tion nearly two thousand dollars in money and over seven
hundred dollars in pledges of labor, material, etc., with which to
defray costs of the barn, driveway, fencing, etc. The Louisville
& Nashville Railroad, with its usual generosity in all public enter-
prises, is giving a fifty per cent rebate on freight for outside
materials used in the construction. A building committee, com-
posed of Sherman Eversole, M. C. Begley and Walter Hoskins, at
Hyden, is-passing on all details of construction.
We are sometimes asked how much Kentucky is bearing
financially of this national demonstration. Our last report
- showed that she bore a heavier part of the budget than any other
state. It is good to be able to add that this, the largest and
costliest center at the county seat, is, from first to last, the gift
of Kentuckians.
The construction of the fourth center for our work, called
Possum Bend because of its location just above a great sweep
of the river, near Confluence postoffice, is well under way. This
is the gift of Mrs. Chester Bolton, of Cleveland, with five hun-
dred dollars in lumber, labor and money contributed by local
citizens. A nurse is already in residence, living temporarily in
a one room l-og cabin and holding her clinics this balmy s·ummer
weather out of doors. She has inoculated single-handed as many at.
as one hundred and forty people against typhoid in one morning.
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The money for our fifth center, complete with all its fur-
nishings, has been generously donated by Mrs. Henry Ford of
Dearborn, Michigan. We are only waiting to build until we
have allowed for its maintenance in the new budget, as we dare
not expand ahead of our budget.
' Dr. Robert Sory of the U. S. Trachoma Hospital at Rich-
mond, Kentucky, and Miss Grace Harwood, R.N., spent a week
il in the county holding eye clinics at widely scattered points. Miss
Frances van Norstrand, R.N., of our staff was detailed to accom-
_ pany them. · I
Miss Ruth Reilly of the University of Kentucky Extension
Division, held canning demonstrations at Hyden, Wendover, Up
River and Confiuence.
Dr. Kobert of the State Board of Health, held tonsil clinics
at Wooton. Miss Lois Harris, R.N., of our staff, was assigned
to assist him.
At the request of the State Board of Health, we have been
holding all summer ten weekly typhoid inoculation clinics in
seven different parts of the county.
As this bulletin goes to press, a young mother who expects
her baby within two weeks, has just ridden twenty miles on
muleback to her parents’ home near our VVendover center, in
order to have our nurse—midwives give her confinement care.
Miss Ella Woodyard, Ph.D., of the Division of Psychology in
the Institute of Educational Research Teachers College, Colum-
bia University, spent two weeks in late summer at Wendover
ala studying and tabulating nursing records of the Kentucky Com-
mittee. When this work is complete we will issue a printed
monograph of her findings and the conclusions that can be drawn
from them.

We again extend our thanks to Brooke Kirkland, age fifteen,.
- of Kent School, for another summer’s volunteer work. This
year he has not only gone to meet all of our guests at the railroad,
often leading two horses besides his own—a day’s ride each way
—but he has acted as escort to numerous guests over the county.
He has bathed a number of horses every week himself, in the
river, and looked after their general wants in a hundred ways. N
In addition he has acted, under oath, as U. S. Assistant Post- V;
master and mail carrier for the Wendover postoffice. As he .
goes back to his school we gratefully bid him God speed. J
Staff Notes
Miss Freda Caffin and Miss Edna Rockstroh have gone to -
the University of California for a year’s study.
Miss Alice Logan has returned from a nine months’ stay in
England as scholarship nurse of the Kentucky Committee, where
she took a course in midwifery at the York Road General Lying-
In Hospital, and, after passing the English Central Midwives —
Board examination, stayed for post-graduate work and experi- ,
ence at the Post Certificate School and its busy district midwifery ‘
service in the heart of London’s East Side. Miss Logan suc- T
ceeds Miss Caffin as supervisor of the work in Leslie County. ,
Miss Mary Willeford has returned from a summer course j
at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, where Q
she took her Master of Arts degree. Miss Gladys Peacock spent I
her holiday in New York.
Miss Emily Williams, formerly assistant superintendent of 5
nurses and assistant inspector of midwives in Hertfordshire, A
England, has joined the staff of the Kentucky Committee and will
be stationed with Miss Ellen Halsall at Possum Bend in the
Confluence section of Leslie County.
Miss Doris Park has succeeded Miss Ellen Halsall as nurse in tf
charge of the Wendover center.
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THE KENTUCKY COMMITTEE FOR MOTHERS AND
BABIES, Inc.
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Alexander J. A. Alexander, Spring Station, \Voodtord County.
Vice-Chairman
Mrs- S. C. Henning, Cherokee Park, Louisville
Judge Edward O‘Rear, Frankfort
Treasurer
C. N. Manning, Security Trust Company, Lexington
Recording Secretary
Mrs. \\’. H. Coffman, Georgetown
Corresponding Secretary
` Mrs. Joseph Carter, Versailles
~ Dr. Scott Breclcinridge, Lexington
. Dr. Josephine Hunt, Lexington
Mrs. Preston Johnston, Fayette County
. E. S. Jouett, Louisville
é Mrs. Frank McVey, Lexington
Miss Linda Neville, Lexington
` Chairman Leslie County Branch Committee
, Judge \Vm. Dixon, \Vo0ton
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` Dr. Arthur McCormack, State Board ot Health, Louisville
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Director
Airs. Mary Breckinridge, R. N., \\’endover, above Hyden, Leslie County
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` · Secretary to Director
7* Miss Martha Prewitt, \Vendover, above Hyden, Leslie County
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` Miss Jessie Carson
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Dr. Irvin Abel, Louisville. Mrs. Churchill Humphrey, Louisville.
Mrs. A. J. A. Alexander, Woodford County. Mr. Clay Hunt, Lexington. `
Judge Lafon Allen, Louisville. Mr. George Hunt, Lexington.
Mrs. S. Thruston Ballard, Louisville. Mrs. George Hunt, Lexington. _ 1
Mrs. Claude Barnes. Louisville. President \Villiam J. Hutchins, Berea.
Mrs. Francis R. Beattie, Louisville. Miss Muriel Hopkins, University of Ky.
Mrs. YV. R. Belknap, Louisville. Miss Flora Keene, R. N. Somerset.
Judge Robert IV. Bingham, Louisville. Mrs. Mary Breckinridge Maltby, Lexington. `
Mr. Desha Breckinridge, Lexington. Very Rev. Robt. K. Massie, D. D., Lexington.
Col. James C. Breckinridge, U. S. M. C. Pres. Frank L. McVey, University of Ky.
Miss Sophonisba P. Breckinridge. Mrs. J. R. Morton, Lexington. 5
Hon. H. M. Brock, Harlan. Rev. E. Y. AMullins, D. D., Louisville.
Cabell B. Bullock, Lexington. Miss Bettie McDanald, R. N., Louisvlile. j
Dr. Waller Bullock, Lexington. Dr. Barnett Owen, Louisville.
Miss Harriet Cleek, R. N., Lexington. Miss Katherine N. Pettit, Pine Mountain.
Hon. Thos. Combs, Lexington. Dr. Alice N. Pickett, Louisville.
Mr. Attilla Cox, Louisville. Mrs. E. S. Porter, Louisville.
Miss Bessie L. Daingerfield, Beattyville. Mr. \Vm. Preston, Fayette County. ~ ?-
Rt. Rev. U. V. W. Darlington, Huntington. Mrs. Annie Richards, Owingsvllle.
Dr. J. A. Flexner, Louisville. Mrs. James Roberts, Frankfort. A
Rev. A. W. Fortune, D. D., Lexington. Mr. E. O. Robinson, Cold Springs
Miss Lucy Furman, Hindman. Miss Sunie Satterwhite, Louisville.
Hon. Alex Hargis, Jackson. Mrs. William Simms, Woodford County.
Mrs. Louis L. Haggln, Fayette County. Miss Josephine Clay Simpson, Lexington.
Mrs. S. H. Halley, Fayette County. Mrs. James Spillman, Harrodsburg: ,
Mrs. Arch L. Hamilton, Lexington. Miss May Stone, Hindman.
Mr. J. L. Harman, Bowling Green Dr. J. A. Stuckey, Lexington.
Mr. Joseph E. Hart, Louisville. Mrs. Carey Tabb, Louisville.
Mrs. French Hawk. Whitesburg. Rev. Charles VV. Welch, D. D., Louisville. _ ,
Mrs. Roy Helm, Hazard. Rev. C. M. Vander Meulen, D. D., Louisville. I
Mrs. Jeter Horton, U. S. M. C. Miss Ellen Young, Henderson. S

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Mrs. 1·`r:tneis Boardman Mrs, Byron D, Miller
Mrs. John C. Breckinridge Miss Anne Morgan
Y Colonel Francis Gordon Caliey Miss Elizabeth Perkins
i ‘i Mrs. Cleveland H. Dodge Mrs. A. de Acosta Root ·
Mrs. Archibald H. Douglas ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Henry Randolph Sutphen
Miss Edith M. Hadley Mrs. Henry Matson \\'aite
Dr. llalph \\'z1ldo Lobenstine Mrs. E. \\'aring \\’ilson
é ltr. llenry Hamilton M. Lyle Professor C E. A. \\'inslow
§ BOSTON COMMITTEE
ig Mrs. Robert Lovett, (Chairmzui)
é Mrs. Guy IL Agussiz Mrs. Henry I-I, Sprague
Mrs. Nathaniel Ayer Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer
Miss R. Dexter Mrs. \\'. \\'. \`augh:in ~
% Mrs. Homer I3. Richardson Mrs. Barrett \Vende1l
., CINCINNATI COMMITTEE .
Mrs. Davis C. Anderson, (Chairmanl
Mrs. Charles Anderson Mrs. \\'m. Cooper Proctor
Miss Judith B. Colston Miss Dorothy Dawson
Mrs. Roseoe B. Crabbs Mr. and Mrs. Charles \‘.'. Short
Miss Amy R. Campbell Dr. Mztrtin H. Yrner
I Mr, li. \\’. Edward Mrs Henry Urner
Ur. George J. Heuer _ Mrs. Philip \\'ym:in
Mr. and Mrs. George lrloanlley Mrs. John F. \\'iuslo·;.·
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THE KENTUCKY COMMITTEE FOR
MOTHERS AND BABIES, INC. i
Its motto: %
"He shall gather the lambs with his arm `
and carry them in his bosom, and shall [
gently lead those that are with young." I
Its purpose:
To safeguard the lives and health of mothers and young
children by providing trained nurse-midwives for rural areas — gi
where resident physicians are few and far between—these nurse-
midwives to work under supervision; in compliance with the
Regulations for Midwives of the State Board of Health, and the (
law governing the Registration of Nurses in Kentucky; and in
co-operation with the nearest medical service.

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