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Published quarterly by the Frontier Nursing Service, Lexington, Ky. { »
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VOLUME X SUMMER, 1934 NUMBER 1 i n
“Entered as second class matter Jnne 30, 1926, at the Post Office at
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@ PRAYERS
Q (Read at Canterbury Cathedral, at the Canterbury Pilgrimage, ·
L July 1st-14th, 1934)
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U Blessed Lord, Father of all mercies, and God of all comfort
. Look in pity on our present distress;
Open the eyes of our understanding, and enlarge our hearts,
` That we may succor the destitute,
; Support the weak,
Hearten those denied the privilege and the product of work,
> And kindle once again the fire of hope in all who feel the world
has ceased to need them. “
E God of all wisdom and might,
{ By whose Spirit of truth man gains control of nature,
l And makes her yield abundance of good things;
, ` Give us, we pray Thee, skill to speed our ploughs,
To set our engines working,
To pursue the path of science,
To quicken enterprise and stimulate invention,
I And so to solve the problems of exchange and distribution
T That we be no longer tempted to destroy, or to restrict, or to
l withhold the things men lack,
Nor suffer needless want in a world where Thy plenty abounds.
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l Quicken, O Lord, the wills of Thy servants coming here on
, _ pilgrimage,
Dismiss them with Thy blessing,
Send them again to the busy world, armed with heavenly
strength,
l` Enriched with heavenly wisdom,
{ Intolerant of delay,
‘ ’ Resolved to act and act at once,
l _ That the wounds of our common life be healed and want be
` , satisiied,
{ Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord, Amen.
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, (Read at Canterbury Cclthedrcll, at the Canterbury Pilgrimage, -
July 1st-14th, 1934)
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is Blessed Lord, Father of all mercies, and God of all comfort
° Look in pity on our present distress;
I Open the eyes of our understanding, and enlarge our hearts,
Q That we may succor the destitute,
, Support the weak,
Hearten those denied the privilege and the product of work,
p And kindle once again the nre of hope in all who feel the world
has ceased to need them. ‘
S God of all wisdom and might,
, By whose Spirit of truth man gains control of nature,
c And makes her yield abundance of good things;
; ` Give us, we pray Thee, skill to speed our ploughs,
l To set our engines working,
i To pursue the path of science, ‘
To quicken enterprise and stimulate invention,
And so to solve the problems of exchange and distribution
That we be no longer tempted to destroy, or to restrict, or to
~ withhold the things men lack,
Nor suffer needless want in a world where Thy plenty abounds.
i Quicken, O Lord, the wills of Thy servants coming here on
pilgrimage,
V Dismiss them with Thy blessing,
_ Send them again to the busy world, armed with heavenly
` strength,
i Enriched with heavenly wisdom,
,. I Intolerant of delay,
' Resolved to act and act at once,
X That the wounds of our common life be healed and want be
, satisfied,
L Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord, Amen.
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ANNUAL REPORT
For the third year in succession it is necessary for us to con- *
dense our annual report to reduce the costs of printing. For the ,_
immediate benefit of our readers we will now give a brief sum- 0
mary of the fiscal year, which closed May 10, 1934, both as to ·
funds and as to the work.
FISCAL REPORT
We received this year from all sources, including nursing
and medical fees, investment income, sales of books, revenue
from Wendover Post Office, refunds, etc., but exclusive of I
$9,000.00 added to the endowment fund of the Hyden Hospital,
and $15,000.00 as an endowment fund for the Jessie Preston
Draper Memorial Center, a total of $87,195.96. Our subscribers ·
will recall that at the beginning of this past fiscal year we decided
to do away with all promotional costs outside the field. Every 1
dollar contributed went directly to the maintenance of the work
and to the gradual liquidation of obligations incurred during the
previous year. Our experience has demonstrated the wisdom of p
this policy. We have not lost in old subscribers and have actually I
gained 582 new ones. We sent out our usual Christmas appeal
for toys for the children, but on a post card to reduce postage. 1
The response was splendid, as also from our regular spring
appeal. In addition, hundreds of old subscribers increased their »
subscriptions by 10 per cent. Towards the end of the fiscal year,
in the spring, the New York Committee, which had raised some-
1 thing over $5,000.00 in its International Skating Carnival Bene-
fit at Madison Square Garden, asked the director to come on for
their annual meeting. At the same time our chairman personally *
I subscribed the money to meet the contact secretary’s expenses. I .
The director practically earned her expenses in lecture fees, so 5
that the only money used for these promotional expenses was 1
directly contributed for that purpose. This coming fiscal year a
number of our committees wish to go ahead with our annual
meetings and the director and contact secretary will be in the .
field part of the time although we will not open outside offices. ‘ I

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FIELD REPORT
The iield nurses carried during the year a total of 6,793
,. people in 1,364 families. Of these 4,223 were children, including
V 1,920 babies and toddlers. Bedside nursing care was given to
‘ 348 very sick people, of whom 16 died. The district nurses
paid 17,750 visits and received 20,068 visits at nursing centers.
Our little hospital at Hyden was occupied 4,537 days by 377
patients. There were transported to hospitals outside the
mountains, in Lexington, Louisville, Cincinnati and Richmond,
patients and their attendants, on passes given us by the
. Louisville & Nashville Railroad.
Under the direction of the State Board of Health, the nurses
gave 8,073 inoculations and vaccines against typhoid, diphtheria,
smallpox, etc., and sent 188 specimens out for analysis.
We held during the yearl191 field clinics with an attendance
of 5,765 people.
Dr. R. L. Collins, of Hazard, Kentucky, performed numerous
operations during the year, those on indigent people as a courtesy
to the Service. None of the doctors in the various cities, to whom
A _ we sent patients, made any charges for their services. Our
regular medical service was carried by our own medical director,
Dr. John H. Kooser; and various physicians from the nearest
towns were called in, both for emergencies and at the request of
individual patients.
MIDWIFERY
The nurse-midwives delivered 379 women in childbirth of
371 live babies, 9 still-births, and 1 late miscarriage; and gave
them full prenatal and postpartum care. There were 2 sets of
Q twins. Doctors were called in 17 times for abnormal conditions.
; ' There was no maternal death. There were 483 midwifery cases
i V closed during the year, and 402 new cases admitted. In addition
to our regular cases, the nurse-midwives were called in for 10
, emergency deliveries where the mother had not been registered
t and given prenatal care; 16 miscarriages (unregistered cases) ;
and they gave postpartum care, only, to 5 unregistered mothers.
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ed, we completed our secondl,000 maternity cases, and their
records are going, in the autumn, to Dr. Louis I. Dublin, Vice
President and Statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, for tabulation. It will be recalled that when we com- {
pleted our first thousand midwifery cases we had to report two
deaths, although neither one was directly attributable to an ‘
obstetrical cause. Both were heart cases and one died eighteen _
days after delivery. With this second 1,000 cases, however, we j
have to report no death of any kind from any cause. We feel I
that there is nothing that we can ever say to our subscribers
that could possibly thank them so much as to report such an I
accomplishment through the use of their funds. ;,
Dr. Dublin’s_report will be published in full when he has
completed his tabulations, sometime in 1935. }
SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT
(Alpha Omicron Pi Fund) I
Report for the Fiscal Year Ending July 1, 1934
The receipts of the Social Service Department for the year
totaled $4,053.56, to which is added $90.99, being the funds car- _ 4
ried forward from the previous fiscal year; thus making a total of “
$4,044.55 for the year’s work. Funds received during the year
were as follows: $3,662.50 from the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority,
$180.00 in gifts from miscellaneous sources, and $211.06 in re-
funds and loans repaid. The balance on hand as of July 1, 1934,
was $1.19, leaving expenditures to be accounted for to a total of
$4,143.36. Of this, $1,675.00 constituted the social worker’s sal- _
ary. Expenditures, other than salary, to a total of $2,467.36, are ,
divided, as follows: administrative costs, $110.64 or approxi- A
mately 5% ; field work, $2,656.72 or approximately 95'ji. The ,
latter expenditures aresubdivided as follows: child-caring serv- I
ice, 37% ; family service, 35% ; Education, 15% ; medical social
service, 51.5 ; and miscellaneous, 3%. °
In terms of people these expenditures are explained as fol- 1
lows: thirteen dependent children were given complete care out-
side their own homes; six additional children were given partial
care. Five handicapped children, three deaf and two blind, were

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i dled. A year of college was provided for one girl of unusual
A promise, and a second was given a small loan to enable her to
‘ start her college course. Twenty children were sent to "outside" i
hospitals and specialists, and glasses were provided for one. Two ‘
l adults were sent to medical specialists, and a bed provided for
. one tuberculosis patient.
Q In addition to the foregoing, service of one kind or another
was rendered in forty-eight cases, families and individuals, not
4 representing any financial outlay.
[ The Social Service Director has also given service on the Q
*; following committees: the Local Area Board of the Kentucky
{ Emergency Relief Administration; the Leslie County Committee
I of the Kentucky Emergency Relief Administration; the Leslie
i County Committee of the National Re-employment Service (sub-
L sequently the District Committee) ; the Leslie County Red Cross
Chapter—Clothing Committee; and the Executive Committee of
I the Kentucky Conference of Social Work.
BLAND Momzow.
I In conclusion we want to mention the splendid work. short-
I handed and under terrific pressure, by our administrative group,
the valuable lz`a1's022 work of our courier service, and the unswerv-
ing cooperation and loyalty of both our outside and our local com-
‘ mittees and our thousands of patients.
Mas. S. Tnnusroiv BALLARD, Chairman.
_ C. N. IWANNING. Treasurer.
1 MARY BREc1<1NR1DoE, Director.
"The mate of the ‘Wander Bird’ went into a bookstore in
Y Ostend one day last summer when the ship was lying there, and
the only book in English in the shop was a copy of ‘Nurses on
Horseback} "
~ —Excerpt from Betsy Parsons letter.

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IN MEMORIAM t
E. O. RoB1NsoN ‘
Ft. Thomas, Kentucky
Again we have to record the passing of one of our trustees,
` who was also one of the earliest friends we had—one who never 4
slackened in his faith, his large support, his generous friendship _
through all of the eight years since he first knew us and we him. it
The death of Mr. E. O. Robinson, from an automobile accident, on ,
June 25th, came as an appalling shock to his many friends. His ;
N genial and friendly character, with qualities_of the heart that ,
endeared him to so many, was so vibrant with life that he cannot t
. be associated in the minds of any with the idea of death. Per- ’
haps it is as well that his end was sudden, although one is sure no
» matter how long an illness he had gone through he would have V
retained the radiance of youth to the end. -
In a brief obituary it is impossible to give even an outline of
a public career. The newspapers have carried extensively the
story of Mr. Robinson’s business success and its beautiful sequel V
in spending so much of the fortune he had made in developing the A
country where he made it. The Robinson Substation of the Uni-
versity of Kentucky at Quicksand, the Homeplace farm in ;
Breathitt County, the annual Robinson Harvest Festival, the I
Lydia Robinson building which he gave the Frontier Nursing
Service in the name of his wife, and his many benefactions to
various mountain philanthropies, all tell the same story of a man `F
who poured out his life and fortune for the economic betterment ,
of the region where he had spent so many years of that life and
made, through his lumber interests, so large a part of that
fortune.
To his widow, a woman who had his lifelong chivalrous de-
votion, our tenderest sympathy goes out in fullest measure. When
a woman’s heart is broken the praises of the world sometimes
only intensify the magnitude of her personal loss. Nevertheless, y
as the months pass, it is something to know that her beloved was
someone whose memory will be kept green.
"For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters `
And that spreadeth out her branches by the river
Neither shall cease from yielding fruit."
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i A CANTERBURY PILGRIM
{ On the first page of this Bulletin we have inserted the
. prayers read in the English pilgrimages during July. It was my
,_ A privilege, with my English friend, Mrs. Arthur Bray (the same
` Mrs. Bray who has been twice to see us in the mountains), to I
_ motor during a week’s time to several of the cathedrals and at-
; tend the services as a pilgrim.
{ The idea of the pilgrimages originated at Canterbury. Eng-
' land is beginning to recover from the depression. Friends over
` there told me that for the nrst time in many years her national
, unemployment insurance scheme, sometimes loosely called
i "dole," was on a balanced basis. In other words, employment
I had picked up enough for the contributions of the employers and
the employees to equal the contribution of the government and
put the scheme on a sound actuarial basis according to the origi-
‘ nal plan. During the period of the depression, when the unem-
l ployment was so great, the government had to advance enormous
’ ‘ sums to meet the deficits of the other two subscribing groups. In
F budgeting the future of this insurance scheme, now that it bal-
i ances again, the plan is to have a sum set aside each year from
which the government will have its own large advances refunded.
In the gradual rise of better times in England, however, there
are certain areas in the midlands and the north where the condi-
tions are no better. These are spoken of as the Distressed and
Derelict Areas. Special funds are needed to help lighten their
long-continued misery. The Dean of Canterbury conceived the
idea of appealing to the English people who could afford it to buy
tickets at half a crown each and make a spiritual pilgrimage, like
those of the Middle Ages, to the great cathedrals, where they
. would be received for special services and where their tickets
I would be laid before the altar as their gifts to God and to their
c fellow men. Funds from the sale of these tickets all go to aid the
Distressed and Derelict Areas.
l Mrs. Bray and I, who were visiting in Kent, went on the
Monday morning of the first day of the pilgrimage to Canter-
. bury. Hundreds of people had gathered there from all parts of
England, groups of them having even followed the trail of the
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Canterbury pilgrims of Chaucer’s day down from London. We
were received by the Dean and clergy of the Cathedral, and the _
choir, who preceded us through the great West door, down the l
nave. The Pilgrims} Hymn from Bunyan was sung, and the j
prayers on the first page of this Bulletin were read. Then a ;
y charming elderly Canon spoke on the history of the Cathedral, I
. and one thing he said made a special impression on an American
i like myself. He said that, mathematically, it would be almost .
_ impossible for any Anglo-Saxon in the group before him not to
have had one or more ancestors as pilgrims in the mediaeval —
times. There were only something like two million Anglo—Saxons
in those days. Working back from the millions and millions of 1
Anglo—Saxons all over the world today one could not but have p
had ancestors among the Canterbury pilgrims of Chaucer’s time. j
He therefore welcomed us all back to the great building our peo-
T ple had builded to the glory of God, and in which they must often
. have worshipped. l
The last cathedral to which we went in our pilgrimage was
Coventry. The ancient and very large church of St. Michael has i
been made a Cathedral in recent years in re-districting the dio-
- ceses of the heavily populated sections of the midlands. I think
there were at least seven hundred of us for that service, and we é
were preceded by the Lord Lieutenant of the County, Lord Leigh.
Again the Dean (but called Provost in the new Cathedral) came T
out to meet us with the choir and preceded us down the nave, i
with music and chanting. The brief address of the Provost called g
T attention to the fact that it was not possible to love God if we did
not love our fellow men. An unusual feature of this service, and ;
one most moving, was owing to the fact that St. Michael’s had
been the parish church in mediaeval times of the guilds of the l
City of Coventry. Each of these guilds has its own chapel in the I
church. A brief verse was read on love for God and man from
the chapel of the Ancient Guild of the Mercers, the Ancient Guild
of the Smiths, the Ancient Guild of the Girdlers, the Ancient
l Guild of the Drapers, and the Ancient Guild of the Cappers. At A ·’
the conclusion of the service the entire audience of pilgrims went L
up to the altar and laid their tickets there, as an offering made `
A in the love of God for the help of their fellow men. R
MARY BRECKINRIDGE.

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OPEN LETTER
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I Since I wrote an open letter before going on my holiday, and
, since the friends of the Frontier Nursing Service have poured
I out a generous response in letters and in money during my ab-
sence, I am writing this second open letter to express my grateful
T thanks and to tell everyone that the long holiday has been suc-
i cessful and that I am entirely restored to health again. The last
1 X-rays have been taken of my back and are perfectly satisfactory, ·
P and for the first time in over two and a half years I am free from
i pain. I am most awfully grateful to each of you for helping us
i to carry on while I was away. The field has been run superbly in
{ my absence and everything is in splendid shape.
The greatest joy about my holiday in_ the Old World was
{ seeing so many of the old friends of the Frontier Nursing Serv-
¤ ice. I went up to the Hydro at Peebles in Scotland just to spend
{ a few days with Sir Leslie and Lady MacKenzie. He has been
t desperately ill with pneumonia and is still far from strong, but -
nothing will ever curb the buoyancy of his heart. He and Lady
MacKenzie love us almost as much as we do them. In Wales, at
i their place, "Bodynfoel," I saw the Watsons, whose visit to us
i has given them a place in our affections always. In London I was
i more than once with Miss Rosalind Paget, whose friendship is
{ part of our eternal background. I visited more than once at the
; British Hospital for Mothers and Babies in the Woolwich dock-
i yards section of London, where I took my own midwifery train-
i ing. The Matron of those days is no longer alive to greet me, but
Sister Gregory is well and the present Matron, with whom, as
Sister Cashmore, and the sister tutor, Sister Neild, I formed life-
long friendships. These were all there and the place itself just
I .· the same, only bigger and better.
F I spent a night in a regenerate and beautified "pub," now a
hostel taken over by the Sisters of St. John, in the Deptford part
R A of London, with Sister Turner and Sister Doubleday, whose
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n fledged midwife and stayed with them for graduate work. I saw
_ our friends, Dr. and Mrs. John S. Fairbairn. I was out at the
British College of Nurses and the British Journal of Nursing, .
and saw Mrs. Bedford Fenwick again, and Miss Breay, now .
much improved in health. It was a joy, also, to go to the Mid-
· wives Institute, of which I am a member, now occupying its
A splendid new buildings with the Queen’s Institute of District
` Nursing—given by the National Birthday Trust. It was a pleas-
ure to meet the new Superintendent of the Queen’s, Miss Wilden-
hurst, and to meet Miss Gavan Taylor, Secretary of the Overseas
Nursing Association in Kensington, through whom we have had
_ some of our best nurse-midwives. I was also in Hampstead with
Lady Hermione Blackwood, and Miss deSautoy. My friendship
with them goes back to the days in France and their interest fol-
lows eagerly everything that we do. I spent an evening of espe-
i cial pleasure with Miss Dorsey and the students of the Bedford
College International Red Cross group. Lastly, the old Frontier
Nursing Service nurses, now back in England, gave me a reunion
luncheon, arranged by "Dougall" (now Mrs. Fernando Mar-
. raine), and Bridget Ristori, now matron of a government hospi-
tal in Trinidad. Many travelled into London from hours away
_ to attend, and it was great.
In Edinburgh, with Lady MacKenzie, I called on Miss
r, Dewar, the Superintendent of the Scottish Queen’s Nurses, at
their place in Castle Terrace, under the shadow of the glorious
old castle. There were many personal friends too, who follow
the work of the Frontire Nursing Service with aHection and in-
terest and support, and very special prayer. But this letter is
already too long, and all of the holiday part in many places from
Cambridge and Surrey and Kent, to Somerset and Warwickshire
and Derbyshire and Yorkshire, must be left out. It is enough to
remember that our work is covered as warmly over there as here
by all the marks of enduring friendship. With grateful aHection
for both sides of the Atlantic, I am
Yours sincerely,
MARY Buroxruaincs.

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THE STORY OF A WHEEL CHAIR
li One of the most satisfying tasks of the summer was the
(J getting of a wheel chair for an old lady down near Harlan. She
I is an incurable cripple living with her husband in the county
poorhouse. After reading one of Mrs. Roosevelt’s articles in a
magazine she wrote Mrs. Roosevelt explaining how badly she
needed a wheel chair. Mrs. Roosevelt in turn asked us to look
into the situation which we were, of course, delighted to do.
Harlan isn’t more than forty miles away as the crow flies, but as
automobile roads go in this round-about country, it is over a hun-
dred miles. So one of the nurses and I took the car and were
gone overnight.
All that the old lady had said in her letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
about her condition, in fact more, we found to be true. In a bad
fall almost a year ago she had broken the neck of the femur in
her right hip, her right ankle, and some of the bones in her right
hand. The doctor told us that her hip fracture was of such
nature that the bone would probably never knit. The ankle was
still in bad condition, and attempts to get about on crutches had
already resulted in several falls. Lacking a wheel chair, she was
virtually a prisoner; the four walls of her room were the limits of
her world. Her husband, considerably older than she and with a
multitude of ailments, was barely able to shuffle about. Her
other companions in the poorhouse were little more able to help
her. She is only fifty-nine, and apart from her injuries she is not
sick. It did not take a great deal of imagination to foresee en-
during years of this kind of helpless monotony for her that could
hardly be called life.
One of the things that most pleases me about this episode is
il the success we had in Harlan itself in getting funds for the chair
°* and establishing in a local philanthropic group an on-going inter-
· est in the old couple. In the short time we were in Harlan we
contacted several individuals and organizations in the attempt to
arouse this interest. We left Harlan with the promise from the
Women’s Federation of the Harlan Presbyterian Church to see

io rm: orkivrmany BUIJLETIN
F iiedged midwife and stayed with them for graduate work. I saw
4 our friends, Dr. and Mrs. John S. Fairbairn. I was out at the
British College of Nurses and the British Journal of Nursing, _
and saw Mrs. Bedford Fenwick again, and Miss Breay, now .
A much improved in health. It was a joy, also, to go to the Mid- 5
· wives Institute, of which I am a member, now occupying its
i splendid new buildings with the Queen’s Institute of District it
` Nursing—given by the National Birthday Trust. It was a pleas-
ure to meet the new Superintendent of the Queen’s, Miss Wilden-
hurst, and to meet Miss Gavan Taylor, Secretary of the Overseas
i Nursing Association in Kensington, through whom we have had
_ some of our best nurse-midwives. I was also in Hampstead with
Lady Hermione Blackwood, and Miss deSautoy. My friendship
with them goes back to the days in France and their interest fol-
A lows eagerly everything that we do. I spent an evening of espe-
‘ cial pleasure with Miss Dorsey and the students of the Bedford
. College International Red Cross group. Lastly, the old Frontier
Nursing Service nurses, now back in England, gave me a reunion
luncheon, arranged by "Dougall" (now Mrs. Fernando Mar-
raine), and Bridget Ristori, now matron of a government hospi-
tal in Trinidad. Many travelled into London from hours away
to attend, and it was great.
In Edinburgh, with Lady MacKenzie, I called on Miss
, Dewar, the Superintendent of the Scottish Queen’s Nurses, at
their place in Castle Terrace, under the shadow of the glorious
old castle. There were many personal friends too, who follow
the work of the Frontire Nursing Service with affection and in-
terest and support, and very special prayer. But this letter is
already too long, and all of the holiday part in many places from
Cambridge and Surrey and Kent, to Somerset and Warwickshire
and Derbyshire and Yorkshire, must be left out. It is enough to
remember that our work is covered as warmly over there as here A
by all the marks of enduring friendship. With grateful affection
for both sides of the Atlantic, I am
Yours sincerely,
MARY BRECKINRIDGE.

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THE STORY OF A WHEEL CHAIR
5 One of the most satisfying tasks of the summer was the
{J getting of a wheel chair for an old lady down near Harlan. She
is an incurable cripple living with her husband in the county
poorhouse. After reading one of Mrs. Roosevelt’s articles in a
magazine she wrote Mrs. Roosevelt explaining how badly she
needed a wheel chair. Mrs. Roosevelt in turn asked us to look
into the situation which we were, of course, delighted to do.
Harlan isn’t more than forty miles away as the crow flies, but as
automobile roads go in this round-about country, it is over a hun-
dred miles. So one of the nurses and I took the car and were
gone overnight.
All that the old lady had said in her letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
about her condition, in fact more, we found to be true. In a bad
fall almost a year ago she had broken the neck of the femur in
her right hip, her right ankle, and some of the bones in her right
hand. The doctor told us that her hip fracture was of such
nature that the bone would probably never knit. The ankle was
still in bad condition, and attempts to get about on crutches had
already resulted in several falls. Lacking a wheel chair, she was
virtually a prisoner; the four walls of her room were the limits of
her world. Her husband, considerably older than she and with a
multitude of ailments, was barely able to shuffle about. Her
other companions in the poorhouse were little more able to help
her. She is only fifty-nine, and apart from her injuries she is not
sick. It did not take a great deal of imagination to foresee en-
during years of this kind of helpless monotony for her that could
hardly be called life.
. One of the things that most pleases me about this episode is
R the success we had in Harlan itself in getting funds for the chair
3 and establishing in a local philanthropic group an on-going inter-
· est in the old couple. In the short time we were in Harlan we
contacted several individuals and organizations in the attempt to
arouse this interes