Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1908 — Home Consumption Nurses. [ARTICLE]

Home Consumption Nurses.

Commissioner of Health Dixon of Pennsylvania has"* inaugurated a campaign against tuberculosis involving a house-to-house inspection and instruction by visiting nurses, who will go to the home Of every person applying to the State Dispensary for treatment. It will be the duty of the visiting nurses to instruct the patient and the patient’s family how to obtain the requisite amount of fresh air, the most desirable foods, and how to conduct themselves so'as to avoid infection. Every member of a household in which a consumptive lives will be inspected, and where there is a sign of 11l health the suspected person will be. pec.... suaded to adopt precautionary measures. In this way it is hoped the State will he ablejto check the spread of “the great white plague” by discovering hundreds of cases in the early stages when a cur* is probable. The difficulty which ha* been experienced in sanitarium work heretofore is that, cases are not reached until they are'too far advanced to b« susceptible of cure.