NY. the visiting nurse organization was working to "provide free nursing among the sick poor." In Dover and Medfield. MA. in 1913. a visiting nurse taught the Camp Fire Girls cooking and the Boy Scouts first aid. In Manchester. NH. in the 1920s. the visiting nurse association provided health care and disease prevention training to the many immigrants whose unfamiliarity with English aggravated their nutritional and medical problems. Health departments. relief organizations. and social service agencies came to rely upon visiting nurse associations to provide assistance to patients. They occasionally banded together to offer expanded services. such as diagnostic and laboratory tests. supplies and equipment. transportation. and physical therapy.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants are unfamiliar with English and have nutritional and medical problems.