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t"1 QUflRTERiy BULLETIN ft* METROPOLITAN NURJEJ Vol. 9, No. 2 Kay 1945 LEGION OF MERIT AWARD GOES TO DR (COLONEL) LANZA Or. Anthony Jr Lanza, whom many of you know, returned to tha Company on January 1st of this yaar, aftar thraa years of service with the War Department.. Dr. Lanza's work am head of tha Division of Occupational Health in the Preven tive Medicine Service of tb e 8uxgeon General'* Office vas of such value that he bas been awarded. the prised Legion of Merit1 Surgeon General Kirk bade the presentation in Washington, D. C. on April 2nd, with the following citation! Colonel Anthony J. Lanza, 0439418, Medical Corps, Any of the United States. For excep tionally aeritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services from March 1942- to De canter 1944. Colonel Lanza contributed in a high degree to the devalopaent of the Amy's present industrial health prograa for civilian workers in Amy owned and operated industrial plants. He organised for the'Surgeon General a special health service which protects the health of alaost a Billion civilian work ers in Aray industrial plants, thus contributing to tha uninterrupted flow'df auni- tions. To this task h#,< brought a rich background of. spoeial knowledge and exper ience which was applied with energy, intelligence and wisdom. Largely due to. hia ef forts, tha present effective and well orgenlsed progren or industrial medicine- h as been developed end he thus* contributed- in a high degree to the succees of the Amy' e prograa of Preventive Medicine.* Since aany of you have at some tine net end worked with Dr. Lansa, Z an sure you will he touch interacted to learn of the award which he hae received as g result of his accomplishing a tremendously important job. Certainly eoae of you will again have an opportunity of working with hia in tha future. He will of course again head the Industrial Health 8errlce- and oaixy op such important work in cooperation with the Medical, Group, and Statistical Divisions j at the sane tlae giving the Mursing and other Welfare Bureaus.the benefit of his invaluable experience. I need hardly say that we are aost happy to welcome Dr., Lansa boss ones aora. , i- .. NURflND BUREAU' * . v ...* V> . v.!* #. - v . Aw*Sscond Vice^Preej.dent JNJUWHCE: . Tkt Qiimrtirlr gmllttin VP Lonu,, MthonMj . wa- SALUTE TO THE STAFF OH THE HOKE FRONT Rath H. King, Edltori&l Assistant, Nursing- Bursau To many Metropolitan Nurses here at hone the article in the January number of the Quarterly Bulletin, *A Salute to the Metropolitan Nurses in the Armed Forces,* gave a thrilling sense of sharing, if only indirectly, in the rich and unrorgetable experi ences of Metropolitan members or the Army and Navy. But - "Peace has its victories no less than war,* so in this number we' salute the Metropolitan Nursing Staff which is meeting the grave challenges of the time on the home front. Metropolitan Nurses who are deep in military life at present want to know vb&t changes the war, as well as time and tide, is making In the work of the Nursing Ser vice. To them and to the Metropolitan staff we want to say, we are in a fight too, here at home, to and Improve the health and strength of our ocuntry by main taining and improving that part of it which is our special province, that of our poli cyholders and their families. If it is sometimes hard to realise the Importance of this work as compared with that in a field hospital in Belgium, for Instance, it is partly because, as yet, we have had no spectacular epidemic to fight. The preserva tion of health is always less dramatic .but requires constant vigilance. Ghee a year the Nursing Bureau takes stock of the Metropolitan Nursing Service. This is done in two ways - by the annual statistics and by the nmii .narrative re ports. The statistics are the bare bones of the year's experiencej the narrative re ports give them life. The narrative reports come to Miss Haupt'a desk early in Janu ary, for the end of the year brings store than Christmas to Metropolitan Bead Nurses and Supervisors! > Nor does a Nursing Bureau position in the Home Office confer immuni ty; every member of that staff prepares an report too. The Director's report to Dr. Armstrong contains the final cxystalisation of the experiences of many indivi dual Nurses and Supervisors, of their reactions and conclusions, and of their activi ties as members of their communities in this time of war. The annual reports bring Into focus the problems that are country-wide and other problems that are local. They point to places where growth has halted or where it is taking some new direction. Trends of the times became evident, and so do the disloca tions caused by war. Without these reports, an understanding of the Nursing Service in itself and in relation to the whole public health nursing field could hardly be made at all. To quote from Miss Baupt's report for 1944s "We are in a unique position, through our Local and Territorial Supervisors and our administrative service in the Home and Bead Offices, to keep in ao- tlve touch with the total field of public health nursing, from the local grass roots, through State organizations to the level, both govern mental and voluntary." The reading of one report right after another makes a real Impact upon the rea der. The problems of the Field come home with full force. So, too, do the loyalty, flexibility, and stamina of Metropolitan Nurses and Supervisors.