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been able to arrange for medical inspection in rural schools. In 
Wolfeboro, N. H., the women's club induced the local dentist to 
inspect without charge the teeth of all school children, including 
those from rural and tillage schools. Volunteers from the women's 
club attend to the clerical work and funds are furnished for dental work 
when necessary. A county nurse for public health work is employed 
by a county social welfare league in Montgomery County, Md. All 
local women's organizations in the county which wish to work for 
health improvement are invited to belong to this social welfare league. 
The nurse receives a salary of $100 per month and works with the 
county health officer. Her particular work the first year was directed 
toward reducing the death rate from tuberculosis and improving 
general sanitary conditions. The women's club of Pepperell, Mass., 
paid the salary of a trained nurse for a short time for the purpose of 
interesting the public in a district nursing association. This latter 
association is composed of men and women and is supported by $1 
membership fees, with an appropriation of $200 from the town, 
together with fees of 25 cents an hour for those who can pay for the 
service. A number of Red Cross nurses have been employed under 
the rural nursing department of the American Red Cross and the 
local women's rural clubs have greatly assisted in promoting the 
success of the work. Rural women's organizations have given some 
assistance in making provision for county social service workers, 
such as county probation and juvenile court officers and children's 
aid society workers. They have also cooperated with these workers 
in caring for the dependent children of the county. 
Philanthropic work is carried on by many women's rural organiza- 
tions. The farm woman's free time, taken while resting from more 
strenuous labor, is frequently spent in knitting, crocheting, and sew- 
ing for sales to raise funds for charitable and religious purposes. The 
Congregational Ladies' Aid of Huntley, Mont., has contributed $1,000 
in this way during the past seven years toward the support of the 
church. Barrels of canned fruit and crates of eggs, besides cash 
donations, are sometimes sent to local orphanages. An "Egg Day" 
is sometimes held, when each member contributes a dozen eggs or 
more, which are packed in cases at the club meetings. This has been 
done by farm women's clubs in many States, among which may be 
mentioned the Norden Ladies' Aid, on a Montana reclamation project, 
and the Boone Township Club, in Iowa. At Glendale, Ariz., the eggs 
were contributed at Easter and used for an egg hunt in the town 
park. Each child paid a small fee and the money was used for philan- 
thropic purposes. A room in the town hospital is maintained by a 
rural club in Iowa. Seventy-five dollars was spent for the original 
equipment and special conveniences are added from time to time. 
War sufferers are assisted by local federations of women's clubs. 
