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Public Health Nursing Association Member Makes A Home Visit, November 1939

Public Health Nursing Association Member Makes A Home Visit, November 1939 image
Year:
1939
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Ann Arbor News, November 2, 1939
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In days gone past a kind hearted neighbor usually volunteered her service as a "practical" nurse in times of illness, but today that demonstration of typically American good-neighborliness is inadequate to cope with the problem of sickness. Expert, trained nurses are required. To fill that gap, the Public Health Nursing Association, through the support of "good neighbor" donations to the Community Fund, provides part time nursing services in the home by graduate nurses for those unable to afford the care they need in sickness and maternity cases. Working in co-operation with physicians and the State Health Department, the agency's nurses are available following operations or in time of chronic or sudden illness, they furnish care and advice to prospective new mothers; they help prevent, isolate and treat cases of communicable disease. Appreciation for the helpful care and advice to the less fortunate in time of sickness is typified by the scene shown in the above photograph, as a grateful mother and her two children bid farewell to one o the association's nurses.

HRC Urges Junkyard's Relocation

HRC Urges Junkyard's Relocation image
Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
April
Year
1968
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Engelke Says Junk Yard Not Health Menace

Engelke Says Junk Yard Not Health Menace image
Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
December
Year
1957
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Legacies Project Oral History: Ruth Carey

Ruth (née Dorsey) Carey was born in 1937 and grew up in West Virginia, Georgia, and Ohio. She attended Greenbelt College in Illinois and nursing school in Cleveland, Ohio. She and her husband had two children and moved to Ann Arbor to pursue graduate education. She graduated from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and went on to teach at the School of Nursing. She is passionate about educating new parents about health and nutrition. During retirement she began visiting inmates at the federal prison in Milan as a volunteer with the Prisoner Visitation & Support program.

Ruth Carey was interviewed by students from Skyline High School in Ann Arbor in 2015-16 as part of the Legacies Project.

Retired U-M professor dies at age 94

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Day
11
Month
December
Year
1986
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