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Ann Arbor News, November 2, 1939
Caption:
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.