San Francisco Hospital School of Nursing - Cap and Seal Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Kitchen. The special curative diets, numbering about ninety per day are pre- pared in the Diet Laboratory. The same room is equipped for baby formula Work and for class instruction. The formulas average fifteen a day. These are of all types and kindsg for both well and sick babies. There is a large Tuberculosis Department in the hospital. It has its own diet laboratory to handle the diets for its department. A six months' post graduate course is offered for college graduates who have majored in Nutrition. Upon completion of this course the graduates receive a diploma as graduate dietitians. In brief, the problems of the Dietetic Department involve: Cal tbl fel Cdl Cel Serving an average of 667 patients in the ward diet kitchens, in the Main Hospital and Tuberculosis Division. Serving the profession staffs and employees in four dining rooms. Employment and rotation of 60 employees. ' Directing the work in: Tuberculosis Department Main Hospital One special diet Laboratory. Preparing menus and serving lunches for: 50 children at Buena Vista School 25 children at Michael Angelo School Personal supervision and instruction six student nurses on duty in the Department and of student dietitians, Classes in Nutrition and Cookery and Diet in Disease for stu- dent nurses. xlnstruction and supervision of nurses preparing milk formulas for babies. MAIN K1'rcHraN The meals for the patients and the employees Cwith the exception of Isolation Hospitall are prepared in the main kitchen. The average number of meals prepared per day is 3,600. SOME SUPPLIES USED 5600 lbs. of meat per week. 1300 doz. eggs per week, or 15,600 eggs. 3500 lbs. of bread per week in 2-lb. loaves, or 1750 loaves per Week. - 100 3-gal. cans of milk per day, or 300 gallons. 960 lbs. of butter per Week. W Page 43

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OUR STAFF or IJIETITIANS Dietetic Department MRS. H. A. DoUeLAs, A. B., Chief Dietitian HE student nurses spend two months of their training in the Dietetic De partinent. 'they have practical experience in cooking salad making formulas weighing and the making of diet menus for all diet diseases. mlm They also receive class! instruction in cookery, Nutrition and Diet in . - D 1 , , c , c ' Disease. There are four dietitians. Mrs. Helen Abbott Douglas, A. B., is Chief Dieti t'a . Sh - ' 1 n e is a giaduate of Oberlin College and of the Home Economics Depart- ment of the Santa Barbara State College. The teaching is shared by Miss Arlene Bender, B. S., from Beloit College and theBttlC 1 ' - ' ' a e ree: Sanitarium College for Dietitians. The practical work of the de- partment is handled by Miss Gertrude McLeod, R. N., who has had several years' Nutrition and Dietetic work to her credit and by Miss Helen M. Anderson, a gradu- ate of the Northern Counties Training School of Cookerv New Castle on T ' , s ' C ynes England. C - The Dietetic Department has full charge of the patient's food and of the serving in the dining rooms. There is very close cooperation with the Main ? DIET KITCHEN VY Page 42

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Ubstetrics GXKD HO has not read the articles, published by statistical bureaus showing Cin what are supposed to be indisputable figuresj a steady yearly decrease in the birth rate of this, that or the other country? The average reader, confronted by the sad spectacle of the stork being retired on a pension, or being transferred to another branch of the service, is very likely to take sides with the group who are busily suggesting remedies. If these alarmists would spend a , few weeks in an obstetrical ward, they ik X would probably come out greatly en- f gf couraged, if not actually cured of their dc 5 fears. Then too, for them a lot of an- cient ideas vvould totter and fall from 5, 6 their pedestals. For instance, that one ' X if -M 5? about all babies being alike. After k Weighing out for feedings thirt -tive , I Y if N or so vociferous Units of the Nation's af X Wealthf, g e t t i n g them satisfied, E'E f'ie' those who have need of more food and getting them all quieted down in their little beds, the simile rose leaves so often used by novelists in referring to babies would go by the board and be replaced by something much more practical. Inevitably the opinion would take shape that the nursery con- tained more embryonic Caruso's and Galli Curci's than future presidents! weighing them in, supplementing XE Moreover to those who are really interested in the younger generation, to those who are willing to work hard and long and lose sleep in the interest of their l ciarges, this branch of nursing affords a very satisfactory compensation, for has not a very real service to humanity been performed when these little feet are set upon the path of life equipped with the invaluable blessing of good health? OBSTETRICAL VVAnn Page 44