DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 79 



Comparison of calls per hundred children for city nurses in tvvo public 

 schools of Lansing having similar home conditions : 



Franklin Walnut 



1920-1921 28 86 



1921-1922 18 72 



Decrease in No. of calls over preced- 

 ing year 35%' 16% 



Franklin Avenue School had milk lunches in 1920-1921, and milk 

 lunches and intensive instruction in 1921-1922 ; Walnut School had neither 

 lunches nor instruction in 1920-1921, and milk lunches but no instruction 

 in 1921-1922. No other contributing factors were reported by the City 

 Department of Health. 



A complete report of this work is ai>pended. 



The Home Care of the Sick [H. E. 30) : was broadened both in 'the con- 

 tent of the course and its application. The laboratory was conducted in 

 the bedrooms of the Home Economics Practice House where actual home 

 conditions existed and in as many cases as possible human beings were 

 used as subjects in practicing the principles of home nursing. The Di- 

 vision was fortunate in securing the services of Mrs. Hariy Person, 

 formerly Superintendent of tlie Polyclinic Hospital of Chicago, to whose 

 technical knowledge of general and bedside nursing the success of the 

 course is due. 



Clothing {H. E. 50a) : Students entering the freshman class fall Into 

 two general groups — those who have had several years work in Home 

 Economics in the high school and those who have had no training. Such 

 a difference in the preparation of students makes a real problem in the 

 t\^pe of instruction and standards which could be demanded in the class 

 room. The class was divided upon a basis of preparation and those 

 having had previous training were given the problem of constructing 

 children's clothes. Children from the faculty families were brought in, 

 all types of children's clothes were designed, patterns drafted and the 

 clothes made. Study of the commercial patterns for children showed 

 that great numbers of them placed the weight of the garment at the wrong 

 place on the child's body, taxing certain muscles, and that buttons were 

 placed on the garment w^here the child could not fasten them. These, with 

 many other hygienic aspects of clothing, were made a foundation of the 

 study of its construction in this course. 



Institutional Management (H. E. 20 and 21) : The growth and develop- 

 ment during the present college year of the Avork in iuistitutional manage- 

 ment has been rapid and exceptionally satisfactory. Last year the 

 beginnings were made in institutional management, the work consisting 

 largely of class instruction in laboratory and lecture and limited partici- 

 pation in the management of the East Lansing High School lunch. The 

 Home Economics Division has run the East Lansing High School lunch 

 rooln from January through June by classes in advanced institutio-nal 

 management, classified in the catalog as H. E. 21. The students have 

 done all the buying, prepared all the food, made out the menus, handled 

 all monies, paid all bills, kept all accounts under careful supervision. 

 The students have obtained from this course the knowledge of what it 

 means to run a lunch room and have obtained some experience in that 



