Vinalhaven High School - Exile Yearbook (Vinalhaven, ME)

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THE EXILE Work for the day s V1SltlI1g was planned 10 00 A 'VI Routlne school X1S1t In talklng to a ch1ld complalmng of a stomach ache she dxscovered that the ch1ld had had but a p19C8 of cup cake for breakfast She took the ch1ld home and dlscussed with the mother the lmportance of a good diet A home Vlblt was made to a pregnant mother to dlscuss and to help her set up a dellvery room A home VlS1t was made to a S1Lk ch1ld to see how the ch1ld was and to see lf the physlclan s orders were understood and carrled out An 1nterv1ew was held wlth the school health chalrman to plan school phx slcals Two home V1S1tS were made to obtaln data and complete reports fo1 the State Health Offlce One home VlS1t was made to a TB Reglster Case Returned to the 0ff1C6 maklng note of data and problems to be ln eluded ln narratlve report to her supe1v1sor That ex enlng she showed and dlS cussed the film called School Health in Actlon at the regular meetlng of the Health Councll So ended the dav of the publlc health nurse ICMS It seems that a summer per son Alexander M Whlte was lnter ested 1n our communltv At the close of the war he was 1n the Navv and saw medlcal equlpment belng sold at X91 x low p1 lces He got 1n touch wlth the Selectmen offerxng to donate money lf others ln the town would show the1r mterest bx putting up some money A Speclal Town Meet 1ng was called and S1 000 was voted for thls purpose But 1n order to bux war surplus medlcal equlpment the Covernment 1equ1red that two con dltlons be met C15 The group to be responslble for the equlpment must be a non profit organlzatlon C25 Space must be prox lded for the equlp ment to lnsure that 1t would be used It w as to meet these two condltlons that the ICMS was organlzed and ln corporated under the laws of the State of Malne on June 19 1946 All ther needed now was space Through the generosltx of Mrs Margaret Glldden the space behmd Dr Earles offlce was offered Then ln 1952 Mrs Glldden gave the bulld lllg to ICMS on condltlon that she re celve for her llfetlme all the rents and the ICMS pay all malntenance On her death the bulldmg goes to ICMS outrlght But back to 1946 Equlpment such as the dental chalr dental cablnet and speclal llght fixture excellent X ray machlne and dark room equlp ment the hospltal beds and bedslde tables and other smaller ltems were purchased 'md put to good use The Bingham Assoclates Fund ln Boston g1V6S enormous amounts to help ln the lmprovlng of rural med1 cal care I ooklng at a Federal Depart ment of Health map of the State of 'VIa1ne thelr Fleld Admlnlstrator m qulred what medlcal SGYVICSS were avallable at Vmalhaven North Haven and Mat1HlCUS Because Vmalhaven had already done somethlng to solve 1ts medical problems the Blngham Assoclates also rushed to assist Through thelr efforts the State of Malne Department of Health and Health Nurslng program and to pay 009 of the cost the first year 119491 graduallv wxthdrawlng support as the trustees managed to find other sourc es of revenue The Blngham Asso Clat6S Fund offered to pav the balance of the cost also on a slowlv d1m1n1sh mg scale There was one condltlon attached to thls offer the Pubhc Health Nurslng Program also cover the lslands adjacent to Vmalhaven North Haven and Matlnlcus Crle haven Thls made an area and a popu latlon whlch met the requxrements of the state and Blngham In 1950 MISS Marjorle Roscoe a xerv competent and well tralned nurse came to Vmalhaven as an em plox ee of the ICMS She spends one das a week 1n North Haven and makes trxps to M3t1HlCUS to fulfill her obllgatlons to these members of ICMS Thls then IS how ICMS came lnto belng The Trustees take great satlsfactlon ln that the Pubhc Health 4 . ' . A , I 9 , - S . , . ' 1 a Y. u Q u , n - u . . I . , 1 U I . . l' s, . . A A C a Y . V . . , . ' - . A . f' H i - , - A ' . Y . . . . . - ' ' n a , 1 7 . . - . H . . . Y . . ,, . . . . . u t i . , NOW for the Story Of the birth Of Welfare offered to set up 3 Public VA' . l u I- r' f M , A . , ' ' D I ' I 7 L x 7 Q y a. . . . - v A ' I . , ' . . - 7 I . L . V Y 1 s 7 u . ' 3 ' A Y. - I ' ' . U I' I , I K K . . . v .N v . ' Y - - v Lv 1 A1 .' ' y ' I ' . - 1 ' - i . . . , I , w 7. . - K , H . L - ' K- ' y . r V, . Y 7 . . 7 v . . V . . ' , . tl ' l 1 9 I V 7 g , l . l L L

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THE EXILE Editorials AY OUNCE OI' PREY ENTION Recentlx we haxe been hear1ng more and more about communltx health problems -X current report to the I T A on the Islands Communlty M9Cl1L1l SGTVICQS Inc CICMSD re wealed a wealth of lnterestlng facts and figures about our own commun lty health problems datlng back to twentx xears 1go when D1 V H Shlelds conducted the first organlzed well babx cl1n1c w1th the asslstance of volunteers and follow mg the de velopment of the organlzatxon up to the present tlme Elghteen xears ago the fn st tonsll cllnlc was held 1n Redmans Hall sponsored bx the Amerlcan Leglon The Malne Seacoast MISSION offered at dlfferent tlmes to send a dent1st and the townspeople got together and organlzed dental cl1n1cs Through the X ears the SQIVICCS and facllltles of the publlc health plogram were expanded a bllllfllflg' the Med1cal Center med1 cal CqLllDl'l'l8Ilt and a pubhc health nur e Wlnalhaven 18 now lndependent of outslde agencles helpmg to meet 1ts health needs FOI foul COHSQCLIUVQ vears 1 modern up to date dental cllnlc has been conducted brought about and staffed bx the Vlnalhaven f.OYY1l'l1LlI'1ltK Health Councll Cl1n1cs are held 1n the VI6d1C3l Center Bulld 1ng dental equlpment IS prouded bx the ICIVIS Two hundred and twentx x1s1ts were made bx school ch1ldren to the cl1n1c ln 1954 In November of last vear twentx SIX school age chlldren took part 1n a tonsll cl1n1c Agaln the Health Coun c1I furnlshed xolunteers took the 1n1t1al step of organlzatlon and help ed to finance the project MISS Ros coe ICMS public health nurse ass1st ed IH both the dental and the tons1l CIIHICS The report takes us to V1S1t a Chlld Health Conference of about twenty chlldren between the ages of one and five Bs 8 00 A M Health Councll volun teers Dr Earle and MISS Roscoe are on dutx The mother and the chlld go mto the ex 1m1n1ng room where a xolunteer has the flle card of the chlld to wrlte down the findlngs of D1 Earle and MISS Roscoe She also c ills the phvs1c1an s attentlon to any hndmgs of the last V1S1t so that he max check the cond1t1on The 1mmu nmatlon program IS strlctly followed Phe atmosphere IS frlendlx and cheer ful w 1th a box of lollw pops consplcu ouslx d1splax ed There IS Ven llttle fear and almost no crvlng at a Chlld Health Conference The babv cl1n1cs and the school phx slcals are organwed 1n the same efflclent wax and follow up v1s1ts to the home are made Wherever 1nd1 The school health program 18 now in all x efu xound program somewhat dlfferent from the school phwslcals conducted ln the school corrldor Wlth merelx a clude screenlng of throats and hearts Wlth a modern audlo meter purch zsed 1nd glven to ICMS hx the Health Councll the nurse fol lows up the 1n1t1al tests of hearlng gnen bx the teachers wlth preclse and accurate audlometer testlng Next we follow Mlss Roscoe on a tx plcal dax from her week Th1s should be of lnterest to many as I haxe heard people asklng and wonder mg what the Cllltlei of the publlc health nurse are The nurse spent from 8 00 to 10 00 A M ln the OfflC6 She summarlfed a narratlve report of the prev 1ous daw s accompllshments and problems wrote a letter fol health 9ClLlC3t1OIl materlal and a letter about mstltutlonallfatlon of a chlld 3 Y 1 1 I r ' ' ' ' A 1 A r ' ' 5 u 1 A Q ' ' . v - r ' - , , . . , L . . . . l 'C I A', .- J - ny . , I K 1 K 5 Q Q 1 , . - z 4 Q V 1 v ' , . . . . v - 1 H f v Q A K U A 1 Q - l X Q ' , , Q I A A A Q L n 4 Q K v il 1 in .1 , v . 1 . v , v K A V A V A , . . . .' - I A s ., l U 5 V . . . I . L ' . 7 Q ' ' ' 1 - Q l . Q If 1 . , v - - . . , - Y 1 1 ' V A V ' Q L lf Q V Q I x u Q l f ' Q ' ' UVA 4 A v f . - Q' ' ' ' 7 - , Q . ' L A ' . . I v v I - . , . . I untll by 1905 the ICMS was DI'0V1CllHg' Catef - ' K ' 2 1 v K Q '1 . A 1 Y Q A . A . u. I. 1 . . S I ' . . . 1 . . - , , H ' A1 4 kv. 4 A V .V K ' L' 4 v 1 I ' I l ' . - K . 1 , - - ' ' - C g , , z Q z ,I I - v ' ' 1 y .. A - M C A. A Q . Q Q Q v . ' ' Q C ' Y . ' v- 7 1 1 l - ' Q 7 Q K A A ' Y A . . - . . . 4 Q Q Q Q Y . or ' . I u ' K 1 , ' A 4 t . . Y. V, . 1 A' A . A A A ' . 1 v 1 S v lk ' ' v .

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Nursing Program of the ICMS IS one of the best in the state The public health nurse has become an lndlspen sable member of the island communi ties There will be no more monev from the Bingham Associates Fund There will be no state financial aid this year In Town Meeting S1 125 was appro prlated for Publlc Health Nursing Service under the dlrection of ICMS This will help the trustees but they are still planning other ways to help meet this vear s budget needs Editor in Chief IMPROVED LABOR SITUATION The lndustrlal revolution brought about the factory system At first workers worked from sunrise to sun set The hours varied from eleven hours and twenty four minutes in wlnter to thirteen hours ln summer These hours were prevalent until 1845 although a ten hour day for fed eral emplovees was established in 1840 by President Van Buren Local craft unions had appeared in had not accomplished much however In 1842 the right of workers to Join umons was recognized in a state court During the panic of 1837 many unions had gone out of existence More unions came at the end of the Civil War The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor was the first highly centralized labor union It grew rapidly after 1870 Uriah S Stevens was the leader A secret order at first it called for political reforms such as an eight hour day abolition of child labor etc All workers were welcomed skilled or unskilled vshite or black One of the weaknesses of this union was that it had not only wage earning groups but also farmers small shop keepers and people not entirely inter ested in the wage earners welfare Its outstanding contribution was that it emphasized on a national scale the THE EXILE existence of a labor problem and the need for better labor conditions The changes in the kinds of work and 1n the position of the laborer in modern industry have not taken place without many differences of opinion between employer and employee In dustry has been improved by study ing every machine every process and every worker to see how the product can be made best and most economi callv Workers have been paid by piece rates and by incentive wage payment systems in order to get them to produce as much as possible Many laborers have Joined with other workers in labor unions to com pel the employer to give better wages and better working conditions Many labor disputes have arisen when work ers have gone on strikes for these things Employers have tried to meet labor unrest by paying more attention to their workers They have installed better facilities in factories provided for rest periods and m other wavs tr1ed to make work pleasant The eight hour day became standard in 1916 During the 1930 s the five day fortv hour week became the general Since the adoption of the conveyor belt and other methods of speeding up work may workers feel that they are Just cogs in a machine Some of these workers resent their work On Monday December 5 1955 in New York City s Seventy First Regl ment Armory the American Federa tion of Labor and the Congress of In dustrial Organization held their first Joint meeting in almost twenty years That meeting marked the formation of a new organization to be known as the AFL and CIO Thls will mark the end of a split in organized labor that began in October of 1935 when John L Lewis president of the United Mme Workers attacked Wil llam Hutcheson then the leader of the A F L s Carpenters Union Unity committees from both sides have been workmg out problems Some A F L umons still discriminate 5 I Y - ' . 7 Y 7 , Q I' . s 1 n , ' . - A 1 u . A Y 1, Q - - - u . A . i . , . ' 9 ' y Washington's administration. They hours for laborers: l 4 1 1 9 . , , . , - . .- y - T . ' . . - - V 1 u I if YY ' ' L , D , , - . . '. .' .. . 7 . . Y . K , I . . - - ' 7 K . - . . y - , - 7 - I 9 7 ' , - . . . . . , . . . , , . . .