An Approach to the Problem of Burn Sepsis with the Use of Open-Air Therapy

Louise C. Morel, The Louisville Women's City Club, and municipal housekeeping in Louisville, 1917-1935.

“…Contact with poorer classes was "maternalistic"; contact with the poorer classes on an equal level was nonexistent. 21 As with culture clubs and benevolence societies, the focus of the WCTU changed in the late nineteenth century.…”

“…A program listing the club's accomplishments and plans for the future mostly consisted of municipal housekeeping activities. 21 The women stated these interests as the primary goals of the City Club:…”

“…The article quoted Morel's response, which stated that the City Club would investigate this charge and urged citizens not to "condemn the new garbage separation plan…without a full knowledge of the facts." 21 The City Club backed garbage separation despite any increased cost to the city; the women believed that the health of the city's people was worth a larger financial cost to the city. However, the women did not fully acknowledge the inability of poor citizens to purchase multiple trash cans.…”

“…With this crusade, Leech and the KFWC women hoped to hinder the spread of tuberculosis among children. 20 In 1916, one-third of deaths in Kentucky resulted from tuberculosis, and the clubwomen, beginning in Mrs. Leech's administration, feared many of these were children, as exemplified in this poem from the 1921-1922 KFWC yearbook: 21 It's a hard fight to save the children; It's a hard fight, we know. It's a hard fight to save the children, But the fiend Disease must go.…”

“…20 These homes were to serve as models for new low-cost housing throughout the city. 21 As with the Tuberculosis Housing Survey in 1924 and the 1920 Sanitary Survey, the 1934 Housing Survey delineated class differences between the clubwomen and those they surveyed. The so-called blighted neighborhoods were not those in which the clubwomen lived.…”