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AND BARBARA HUNT, A O PI SOCIAL SERVICE SECRETARY *
(Printed with permission of John Henry’s mother.)  
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THE QUARTERLY BULLETIN ¤{ zh: FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE I ,
Published Quarterly by the Frontier Nursing Service, Inc., Lexington, Ky.
Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year ~ `
Edit0r’s Ofiicez \Vend0ver, Kentucky 7
VOLUME 32 SUMMER, 1956 NUMBER 1
"Entm·ed as second class matter June 30, 1926, at the Post Offiw at Lexington, Ky.,
under Act of March 3, 1879." i
Copyright, 1956, Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. l I

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,  c0NTENTs ~
.   ARTICLE Aurnoa mos
V. -v-·`   Annual Report 2
  A Wild Goose Chase Virginia Branham 27
  Ashes of Roses (Verse) M. W. M. 38
  Beyond me Mountains 48
  Carolyn Bluebonnet and Mr. Salteena
gi;  (Il1us.) M. B. 26
   , Field Notes 51
    Flat Creek Shooting (Illus.) Mary Breckinridge 19
  Z Horse Sense in Guerilla Warfare R. ,T. Biteng 30
~`>_ i   Lexington for the Audit Janet S. Broughton 46
  Old Courier News 31
  Old Staff News 42
 ij ` Our Mail Bag 37
  y Salute to Tenacity (Verse) “Ohela"
  ‘ Cartoon Kitty Biddle 22
  V The Jeep and I Mrs. Frank Ekberg 23
  The Lamp That Never Goes Out Margaret M . Foster 40
  Wilderness Road Award Inside Back Cover
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  BRIEF BITS
  = Anything New Under the Sun ‘? 29
i   Sayings of Our Children M. L. P. 50
e·     Thanksgiving Day Reunion in England 35
   S There Was a Young Man so Benighted
  ‘ (Verse) 47
  Trixie and Rick 50
    White Elephant 36

  
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, HIFNER AND POTTER  
l CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS  
t 145 EAST HIGH  
LEXINGTON, KY.  jj
To the Officers and Trustees  Y
Frontier Nursing Service, Incorporated Q
Lexington, Kentucky  
Ladies and Gentlemen:   "
We have made a detailed examination of your records and  
accounts for the fiscal year ended April 30, 1956, with the results  
as disclosed by the annexed Exhibits and supporting schedules. A
· In our opinion all recorded receipts have been duly ac- A
counted for. I ,
Your endowment and reserve funds now total in excess of i
$967,00000. Thus the goal of One Million has been nearly E.
attained.  
Your books have been closed under our direction and are _i
in accord with this report.  
Respectfully submitted, .  
HIFNER AND POTTER ,4;
Certified Public Accountants  
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Lexington, Kentucky _ _
May Twenty-eighth  ·
Nineteen Fifty-six {
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  THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT
if of the
 I FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE, Inc.
  for the Fiscal Year
 I May 1, 1955 to April 30, 1956
 .;
i PREFACE
  ' 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
  operations of the Frontier Nursing Service, to its trustees, mem-
·=__ bers, and subscribers.
. We have, as in previous years, divided our report into two
» sections. One section is about money, and one section about
in work.
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if 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
  from the Exhibits and Schedules of the last audit. We have
, divided these figures into four categories, each covering one
I page, to make easier reading. The auditors’ own Summary is
i _ the first category. The second is their list of Endowments and
Q Reserves. The third category covers all Revenue Receipts. The
  fourth category we have put into two columns—to the left the
li expenditures of the last fiscal year taken from the audit, and to
_. the right the Budget accepted by our trustees for the current
,4; fiscal year, based on last year’s expenditures.
  Under a fifth category, called Inventory, we account for all
  our properties. All five categories are given in sequence on the
3 following pages.
  Under the heading of Conclusion, we tell something of what
It the year has meant to us.
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4 THE QUARTERLY BULLETIN 1; 
  ANNUAL REPORT FROM THE AUDIT  
  OF THE It 
1 FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE, INCORPORATED  Q
May 1, 1955 to April 30, 1956  
RECEIPTS (not including new endowments) :  Z
Donations ..................................._............................ $ 150,124.33
Income from endowments, benefits, fees, etc ....... 98,037.90 *
Total Revenue Receipts ..............o.._.........._....... 248,162.23 ’
EXPENDITURES—for operating expenses includ-  
ing repairs, replacements and upkeep .................. 211,007.70 I
Excess of Receipts over Expenditures ........................ 37,154.53  
New Endowments and Reserve received .................... 148,447.31  
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New Land, Buildings, Livestock and Equipment ...... 14,788.01  
Less :-—-Charge-offs for deaths of animals, ._ 
depreciation, etc ....................................................... 6,711.36  
Net increase in physical property .._............................. 8,076.65  
GENERAL DATA AS OF APRIL 30, 1956  
Value of Land, Buildings, Livestock, and Equip-  
ment .......................................................................... $ 372,961.82 ,-
Total Endowment and Reserve (This is the value  
of the gifts at the dates they were received.  
Present values would probably exceed this  .2
amount.) .................................................................. 967,034.33 I
Total Contributions and Income (exclusive of En-  
dowment) from Organization to April 30, 1956-- 4,312,131.52 ‘»
Total Expenses (exclusive of Land, Buildings and ,
Equipment) from Organization to April 30, 1956 3,926,905.83  
Excess of Total Income over Total Expenses ---.---.-.-. 385,225,69  
This excess is represented by  
Cash, and Cash items ....----....------.. $ 38,252.11  
Land, Buildings, and Equipment 372,961.82
Temporary Loans ..---..................-.. 1,197.56  
Total .-----.----.---..-....-.....---.--.----. 412,411.49 °, .
Less——IndebtedneSs .--.-.........-......- 27,185.80 385,225,69 ‘  '
Total Revenue Receipts ------.--. $4,312,131.52 gl 
Total Endowment Receipts ..-. 967,034§  
Total Monies Collected .....--....- $5,279,165.85  {
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  ENDOWMENT
*  The total endowment funds of the Service at the close of the
§ fiscal year are taken from Exhibit D of the audit and are as
  follows:
 * Joan Glancy Memorial Baby’s Crib ........_....................... $ 5,000.00
 l Mary Ballard Morton Memorial ...................................... 85,250.83
 . Jessie Preston Draper Memorial (1) ........._.,.................. 15,000.00
j, Jessie Preston Draper Memorial (2) ..,.................o......... 185,000.00
i Belle Barrett Hughitt Memorial ..........,................,o......... 16,000.00
. Isabella George Jeffcott Memorial ......................,o.......... 2,500.00
. Bettie Starks Rodes Memorial Baby’s Crib .........o........ 5,000.00
John Price Starks Memorial Baby’s Crib ...................,.. 5,000.00
* Nora Oliver Shoemaker Memorial Baby’s Crib ............ 5,000.00
· Eliza Thackara Memorial ................................................ 1,828.88*
  Children’s Christmas Fund in memory of Barbara
‘ , Brown ....,..................................................................... 1,000.00
  Donald R. McLennan Memorial Bed .............................. 12,750.00
. E Louie A. Hall Legacy in memory of Sophronia
{ Brooks for a Center and its Endowment ..............,... 51,944.63*
  Margaret A. Pettet Legacy ...........o................................ 1,953.70
 X Hattie M. Strong Memorial .....o........................................ 10,000.00
  James Short Atwood Legacy .......................................... 7,500.00
-.  Marion E. Taylor Memorial .............................................. 10,000.00
  Fanny Norris Fund .......................................................... 10,000.00
 _1 Marie L. Willard Legacy .................................................. 3,127.36
 Q William Nelson Fant, Jr. Memorial ................................ 78,349.52
 ·, Mrs. Charles H. Moorman Fund .......................o.............. 1,100.00
Q Lillian F. Eisaman Legacy .............................................. 5,000.00
  Lt. John M. Atherton Memorial ...................................... 1,000.00
 ‘ Mrs. Morris B. Belknap Fund .......................................... 26,375.00
} Elisabeth Ireland Fund .................................................... 17,257.50
  Elizabeth Agnes Alexander Legacy ......................e......... 5,000.00
 Q Richard D. McMahon Legacy ..................,........e.e............ 943.23
 ‘ An0nymous——General Endowments .............e.................. 102,400.00
 _. Mrs. W. Rodes Shackelford in memory
it of her two children ..............................e....................... 10,000.00
  Beulah Bruce Brennan Memorial .................................... 2,000.00
“ Anna Rosina Gooch Memorial ........................................ 10,000.00
 2 Jeannie B. Trull Legacy .................................................. 32,883.24
 ,g Elizabeth B. Perkins Legacy .............._....................e...... 152,970.44
 ‘ Frances Kendall Ross Legacy ............._.....................e.... 17,100.00
  Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay Memorial ........................e. 5,000.00
  Helen N. and Beatrice A. Wilson Fund .......................... 2,000.00
Sophia Cogswell Stiger Memorial .................................... 3,000.00
_ Mrs. John W. Price, Jr. Fund .......................................... 10,800.00
  Total Endowment ........................................................ $917,034.33
{  ' RESERVE ACCOUNT:
s Mrs. Louise D. Crane .......................... $ 4,000.00
  Mrs. Frederick Mosley Sackett .......... 10.000.00
 Q Mrs. Eliza A. Browne ........._................ 16,000.00
 { A. N. Spanel and Winfield Baird Fund 20.000.00 50.000.00
 ~ Total ................................__................_......................... $967,034.33
  *Income added to principal.
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 · REVENUE RECEIPTS e
, Statement of Donations and Subscriptions Paid 7
May 1, 1955 to April 30, 1956  j
1 Benefits and  .
l SUMMARY Z Contributions Bargain Box Totals  1
l Alpha Omicron Pi and Baird j
  Social Service Funds .....i_i..._._.... $ 10,469.48 $ 10,469.48 L
Baltimore Committee ...._...............,. 994.00 994.00  '
Boston Committee ,.....__..__..,._o____.___ 5,536.93 $ 1,058.24 6,795.17  ?
Chicago Committee ..._,,,...,,....,,.,._.... 7,100.93 7,100.93 li
Cincinnati Committee ..._....,........,.... 8,144.00 8,144.00 ~
Cleveland Committee ...................... 10,408.27 10,408.27  g
Daughters of Colonial Wars ............ 2,904.40 2,904.40 c
Detroit Committee ...r...r.................. 25,605.75 25,605.75  I
Hartford Committee ........................ 1,406.50 1,406.50 Q
Kentuckyzit I
Blue Grass Committee.; .............. 7,306.00 7,306.00 l
Louisville Committee ..............._ 6,881.22 6,881.22  
Miscellaneous Kentucky ............ 987.49 987.49  l
Minneapolis Committee ...........r...... 2,586.00 2,586.00 __
New York Committee ...................... 27,543.96 4,750.00 32,293.96 ‘¥ 
Philadelphia Committee .................. 4,772.65 750.00 5,522.65 j
Pittsburgh Committee .................... 11,498.61 11,498.61  v‘
Princeton Committee ...................... 795.00 795.00  
Providence Committee .................... 1,183.00 1,183.00  Q
Riverdale Committee ...................... 1,375.00 1,375.00 :
Rochester Committee ...................... 2,158.28 2,158.28  
Washington, D. C. Committee ........ 4,018.35 3,044.80 7,063.15  
Miscellaneous .................................... 6,448.51 6,448.51 A
Totals .......................................... $150,124.33 $ 9,603.04 $159,727.37 •
*Total for Kentucky $15,174.71  ,
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OTHER REVENUE RECEIPTS: li
Fees for Frontier Graduate School  
of Midwifery .............................. $ 7,770.00 .i
Payments from Patients:  
Income from Nursing Centers..$ 9,955.28 »;
Medical and Surgical Fees ........ 1,574.50 ». 
Hyden Hospital Fees .................. 8,293.30  1
Hyden Hospital Clinic Supplies 1,421.41 21,244.49  1
Royalties on book Wide  
Neighborhoods .......................... 85.25  
Wendover Post Office ........................ 3,563.60 ’ `
Investment Income .......................... 40,662.94 · . »
Sales of Books and Post Cards ........ 108.58 $ 73,434.86 I, 
Total All Revenue Receipts ...... $233,162.23  ,
Transfer from Reserves .................. $ 5,000.00  3
Transfer from Legacy ...................... 10,000.00 $ 15,000.00  w
Total All Receipts ...................... $248,162.23  
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, LAST YEAR’S EXPENDITURES AND THIS YEAR’S BUDGET
_ I. FIELD EXPENSES:
 J (Hyden Hospital, Frontier Graduate School
j  of Midwifery, Wendover, and Six Nursing
 , Centers)
— 1955-1956 1956-1957
  1. Salaries and Wages ........................................ $ 67,465.52 $ 69,000.00
 gs 2. Medical Director (Note 1) _.......................,.._ 1,441.68 7,000.00
 { 3. Dispensary Supplies (Note 2) ...................... 11,141.67 15,000.00
E 4. Running Costs: food——minus board of resi-
 3 dents; cows, fuel, electricity, laundry,
· freight, haulage, et cetera (includes
Q $1,495.05 paid to outside hospitals for our
I patients—additional to Social Service,
 , costs below) .................................................. 37,231.05 37,000.00
5. Feed and Care of 22 Horses and Mules
< (Note 3) ........................................................ 8,220.07 8,200.00
  6. Jeeps (16), Truck, Station Wagon Am-
· bulance ...................................... . ..................... 6,289.19 6,300.00
 ~~ 7. Maintenance of Properties ............................ 24,185.44 23,500.00
  Total Field Expense .................................... $155,974.62 $166,000.00
  II. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSE:
  1. Salaries, accounting, auditing, oflice sup-
 I plies, postage, telephone, telegraph, print-
  ing, etc. ............................................................ $ 32,498.07 $ 31,500.00
 { III. SOCIAL SECURITY TAX .......................................... $ 1,950.95 $ 2,000.00
ii  i IV. SOCIAL SERVICE (including payments to out-
 ·. side hospitals) ...._............__..........._............... $ 8,265.11 7,000.00
 p V. GENERAL EXPENSE:
 { 1. Insurance (Fire-—$296,000.00 coverage,
 Y Employer’s Liability, full coverage on
  truck, 16 jeeps and station wagon) ............ $ 5,567.14 $ 5,500.00
ii  2. Interest .......................................................... 270.00 270.00
Y: 3. Quarterly Bulletins (covered by sub-
 %; scriptions) _____._..____..._._...__............__................ 3,611.73 4,000.00
.{ 4. Statistics ..__..._................................................ 1,604.66 2,000.00
 E 5. Miscellaneous Projects such as: Doctors
P  and Nurses for study and observation,
 » professional books and magazines .............. 555.17 730.00
  6. Miscellaneous Promotional Expenses be-
,, R yond the mountains ........................................ 710.25 1,000.00
 » Total General Expense .......................... $ 12,318.95 $ 13,500.00
‘  Total Expense ........................................ $211,007.70 $220,000.00
l'  Note 1: During_only 2% months ofthe year _ _
 Q Note 2: Approximately 1/3 of supplies relayed to districts _
 _· Note 3: Four animals belong to FNS employees, who must ride to work
 · NEW LAND AND BUILDINGS, MoToR VEHICLES,
 [ EQUIPMENT, AND LIVESTOCK .............................. $14,788.01
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LAND, BUILDINGS, LIVESTOCK AND EQUIPMENT  i
(From Exhibit C of the Audit) =. 
{ INVENTORY  
Our auditors set a value of $372,961.82 on these holdings,  
after adjustments. Among the major holdings are the following:  
Hyden _  S
A stone Hospital, one wing of which is the Mary Ballard  
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.  
Joy; Aunt Hattie’s Oak Barn, gift of Mrs. Henry Alvah Strong;  
Mardi Cottage, the Quarters for the Frontier Graduate School  L
of Midwifery; The Margaret Voorhies Haggin Quarters for El,
Nurses; three water tanks; two employees’ cottages; and out- it
buildings such as garages, work shop, pig house, forge, pump  I
house, fire houses and the Wee Stone House.  [X
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Three log houses, as follows: the Big House ( "in memory of P l
Breckie and Po1ly") ; the Old Cabin and the Ruth Draper Cabin;  
the Garden House; the Upper and the Lower Shelf; the Cour-  ,
iers’ Log Barn and Aunt Jane’s Barn; numerous smaller build-  i
ings such as the cow barn, horse hospital barn, mule barn, tool A p
house, chicken houses, forge, apple house, pump house, jeep f 
shed, iire hose houses, water tanks, and the Pebble Work Shop. f i
Georgia Wright Clearing _  
A caretaker’s cottage and barn, extensive pasture land for l 
horses and cows; a bul1’s barn and stockade; two wells. ,
Jessie Prestion Draper Memorial Nursing Center . `
(Beech Fork; Post Office, 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 Oiiice, Coniiuence, Leslie County)  
Frame building and oak barn; deep well, pump house and Q 
water tank; fenced acreage for pasture and gardens.  
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 I Clara Ford Nursing Center
  (Red Bird River; Post Office, Peabody, Clay County)
 { Log building and oak barn; fire hose house; walled-in spring;
 A deep well, pump house and water tank; fenced acreage for pas-
  ture and gardens.
i Caroline Butler Atwood Memorial Nursing Center
 1 (Flat Creek; Post Oliice, Creekville, Clay County)
gi Frame building and oak barn; fire hose house; walled-in
 Y spring; deep well, pump house and water tank; fenced acreage
i? for pasture and gardens.
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,   Belle Barrett Hughitt Memorial Nursing Center
—. (Bullskin Creek; Post Office, Brutus, Clay County)
 ;§ Frame building and oak barn; jeep shed; fire hose house;
Ei, walled-in spring; water tank; fenced acreage for pasture and
  gardens.
 BI; Margaret Durbin Harper Memorial Nursing Center
  (Post Office, Bowlingtown, Perry County)
 is Frame building and oak barn; fire hose house; walled-in
 Q spring; deep well, pump house and water tank; fenced acreage
 C ] for pasture and gardens.
» ; Subsidiary Clinics
i Six small clinic buildings on the following streams: Bull
, ( Creek, Stinnett (Mary B. Willeford Memorial), Grassy Branch,
gl  Hell-for-Certain Creek, the Nancy O’Driscoll Memorial on Cut-
» * shin Creek, and Sizerock on Upper Bullskin.
f  Livestock
" I Seventeen horses; one mule; one registered Brown Swiss
* bull; nine cows; two heifers; registered Hampshire brood sow,
 K and four pigs; over two hundred chickens.
, Equipment
if \ Equipment includes: sixteen jeeps; one Ford station wagon-
 __ , ambulance; one three-quarter ton truck; tanks; engines; pumps;
`  farm implements; plumbers’ tools; sixty-two pairs of saddle-
ii  bags; saddles; bridles; halters; hospital and dispensary supplies
  and hospital and household furnishings in twenty-seven dwell-
  ings variously located in a seven-hundred-square-mile-area.
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II. ¥
I REPORT OF OPERATIONS _
{ The data in this section are supplied by the statistical
A department of the Frontier Nursing Service; by records kept  l
on guests and volunteer workers; and by the social service _
secretary maintained by the Alpha Omicron Pi Fund. I
1. ·
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL  
From the point of view of medical care, this has been the  l
hardest fiscal year through which we have gone since we built  ·‘
Hyden Hospital in 1928. Except for its first fiscal month (May, {
1955), before Dr. Frances L. Zoeckler left us for Iran, and its `
last six weeks, when Dr. John A. Walker came as temporary _
medical director, we were without a regular resident physician  i
at Hyden Hospital. Three things made it possible for us to keep -
the hospital open during this time of appalling difficulty. First, _
we had in young Dr. Gene Bowling, a private practitioner in {
Hyden, a friend as well as a physician who gave medical care _
to our hospital patients. Our nurses were able to work under  *
his orders, and he answered every emergency call we made, day
or night.  _
Second, our very sick children were relayed, after Dr. Bowl-
ing had seen them, to that wonderful Children’s Hospital in Cin-
cinnati where they were given superb pediatric care by as fine
a staff of physicians as any in the world. Never has this Chil- °
dren’s Hospital refused a child, and their care was, as always, i
given without charge——just as is ours. »
Third, the problem, constantly recurring, of surgical emer-
gencies, accidents, and complicated obstetrical cases had to be A
met in a variety of ways. Most of the grown-up people, other 1
than maternity cases, were transported to Hazard or Lexington.
We assumed full responsibility for accidents to our children, of
course, including their hospital charges in Hazard or Lexington {
if their families could not afford to pay these charges. As to the ,
complicated midwifery cases, 4 of the regular registered patients  
were delivered by 2 surgeons and 1 obstetrician at our own Hyden i
Hospital, as were 3 emergency patients. We transferred by Q .
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Z patients and 3 emergencies. To the Red Bird Mission of the
Evangelical United Brethren Church Hospital at Beverly in Bell
` County we carried 4 registered complicated maternity cases.
And to the Seventh Day Adventists Church Hospital at Oneida
 l in Clay County we carried 5 such patients. In other words these
a patients, some of whom were in the districts covered by our
` outpost nursing centers, were moved to the hospitals beyond our
? territory that were nearest them. There were 35 such maternity
A patients, and possibly none of them would have survived without
{ expert medical care. That they did all survive was not only due
 A to the medical care but because our nurse-midwives recognized
 -‘ the danger signals in time.
l We did not have Dr. Francis Massie come up from Lexing-
l ton for our surgical clinic in the fall of 1955 because we could
, not assume responsibility for the patients after Dr. Massie had
 i left. However, he did come in April, 1956, for his spring clinic,
‘ bringing with him Dr. D. S. Corbitt, his surgical nurse Louise
. Griggs, and his anesthetist, Christine Reynolds. Our happiness
, in having Dr. Massie back was almost equal to our gratitude.
  Our gratitude is given anew this year to other physicians and
 ` surgeons in Lexington, in Hazard, in Louisville, in Cincinnati,
who gave courtesy care to patients and members of our staff.
 — Dr. H. C. Reineke of Cincinnati read, without charge, the x-ray
pictures we mailed to him. We are grateful to the Kentucky
Crippled Children’s Commission and to the Kentucky Cancer
_ Clinic for the free care given the patients we referred to them.
For all these courtesies we extend heartfelt thanks. Our
l special thanks go out to the Kentucky State Department of
R Health for the kindness and cooperation of its Commissioner,
p of the Directors of its Divisions, and particularly the Acting
{ Director of Maternal and Child Health, Dr. Clyde F. Shelton.
2.
  HYDEN HOSPITAL
`_ Hyden Hospital—with 25 beds and 12 bassinets——was oc-
, cupied 6,687 days last year by 1,007 patients with a daily average
  of 18.3 patients at a cost per patient day of $8.51. Of the 1,007
Q I patients cared for at the HOSpit3.l during the fiscal year, 104
  were sick adults, 482 were obstetrical patients, 115 were chil-

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dren, and 306 were new born. There were 6 deaths in the Hos- ~i
Q pital, of which 5 were new born. There was no maternal death. _
There were 28 operations performed. The Medical Director’s I
I clinics in the outpatient department were held only during the
[ early and the latter parts of the iiscal year, when a medical ,
E director was in residence. Because of this, there was a drop of _
  nearly 50% in attendance——a total of 3,951 visits were received. p
3. ,
DISTRICT NURSING  
In the 12 districts operated by the Service from the Hos—  U
pital, Wendover, and six outpost centers, we attended 10,576  j
people in 2,339 families. Of these, 5,155 were children, including I
2,550 babies and toddlers. The district nurses paid 24,839 visits  A
and received 15,119 visits at their nursing centers and at their ;
special clinics. Bedside nursing care was given in their homes I
to 759 sick people of whom 6 died. At the request of the State
Board of Health, the Frontier Nursing Service gave 3,216 inocu- 4
lations and vaccines against typhoid, diphtheria, smallpox, I
whooping cough, et cetera, and sent 1,756 specimens for analysis.
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.  H
The figures for midwifery are covered under the following
section.
4. —
MIDWIFERY
Registered Cases
The nurse-midwives and the midwifery students of the
Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery (under s