Clara
Bloom
Kentucky Post, Monday, 3 July 1916, page 1
Mrs. Clara Bloom, the appointed Newport community nurse, will act under the Campbell co Health and Welfare Leagues as a nurse at large and not under instruction of the Newport Health Officer, it was unofficially concluded in session of the league directing board Monday. The city's appropriation of $300 for the current year to aid in paying the nurses salary, is given by Newport as a donor, not as an employer. The city has pledged $900 yearly starting 1917.
Diversity of opinion marked the meeting. Dr. Todd signified he wished the nurse to work from his office and be under his charge. Blaine McLaughlin, Vice President of the league would have an outside nurse at first call of the Health Officer and to assist all local physicians. Mrs. Bloom assumes her office July 15.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 6 July 1916, page 1
The Newport community nurse, Mrs. Clara Bloom, will be housed at Third and Monmouth st. on south east corner, after July 15, when she assumes her position.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 20 July 1916, page 1
"Just what will Mrs. Clara Bloom, Newport's first community nurse do for Newport and how will she do it?" She will seek, as a part of her collective duties, to minimize tuberculosis but will concentrate on no one disease. She has started on a survey of the entire city in an effort to locate, firstly, where sanitation is most disregarded.
Her work will be among the indigent only. This work, supported by subscriptions and the official city, will include instructions in the habit of cleanliness, care in maternity cases and attention to all nature of diseases. Mrs. Bloom is at call of every physician within the city and will respond only when called. The Health Officer may ask her aid in any indigent case.
Her investigations will reveal homes where the care of a physician is needed and where one has not been called. In such, she will suggest her aid and respond where the physician who takes care of the case directs. The first step toward alleviating consumption will be placing sputum receptacles in homes where tuberculosis exists. Bedside treatment will be a great part of Mrs. Bloom's occupation. Her office at Third and Monmouth sts. will be designated. An hour or more each morning and a like period in the afternoon will be passed there by Mrs. Bloom. During rest of the day she will proceed with her work over the city.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 25 July 1916, page 1
One of the first drastic steps toward alleviating suffering through disease to be taken by Newport's community nurse, Mrs. Clara Bloom, will be to ask cooperation of the city in compelling strict compliance with an ordinance calling for closed garbage receptacles. The attack will lead into the exclusive as well as parts where it is known disease has originated in carelessly handling the refuse of the dinner table. In the city's East End, she says, there are to be found many germ breeding spots, brought about by open cans and overflow of discarded edibles.
Although Mrs. Bloom will investigate and treat all manner of disease, she will largely be devoted to tuberculosis because: Six thousand deaths resulted from tuberculosis in Kentucky in 1915. Three died of scarlet fever. There were 200 deaths from diphtheria and 200 deaths from typhoid fever.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 27 July 1916, page 1
If Mrs. Clara Bloom, Newport community nurse, has her way every one caught spitting on a sidewalk will be arrested and fined before the Police Court. There is an anti-spitting ordinance and she says she will apply to police officials and ask that patrolmen be instructed as to their duty in enforcing the law. Mrs. Bloom believes Police Chief Chris Ebert will cooperated with her in cutting down diseases by compelling a rigid compliance with the ordinance, which provides for a fine for expectorating on any public walk or footpath at intersections.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 4 August 1916, page 1
After observing sanitary conditions in certain local restaurants, groceries and fruit stores, Mrs. Clara Bloom, said Friday she will appeal to the city for a more rigid upholding of the ordinance covering general sanitation. In reference to garbage receptacles, she will continue investigating using a weapon a law section saying covering of cans must be kept closefitting.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 30 August 1916, page 1
Newport citizens who allow weeds to grow around their homes and allow their garbage cans to become a nuisance will be given a reasonable length of time in which to clean up and if they do not, action will be taken against them, according to Miss Clara L Bloom, Newport's community nurse. Since July 15, Miss Bloom has investigated 41 patients, 12 of whom were afflicted with tuberculosis and six suspected to be affected.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 22 September 1916, page 1
Mrs. Clara t Bloom, RN community nurse for Newport, has proved a woman in her position can become one of the busiest employees of a municipal administration. In a recent report to the Newport city commissioners, covering a period of six weeks, she made a total of 236 visits.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 14 October 1916, page 3
The Mothers Club of York st. Newport public school sent a check for $5 to Mrs. Clara Bloom, to buy equipment for headquarters, Third and Monmouth.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 23 March 1917, page 1
Miss Josephine Meyers of 34 W 11th st. Newport, will be the Newport community nurse after April 1, the Newport Health and Welfare association announced Friday. Miss Meyers is a graduate of the Speers Hospital training school, Dayton.
Miss Meyers will take the place of Mrs. Clara Bloom, who recently resigned to take up private nursing. Miss Estelle Tressler has been acting in her place.