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Show PEDCTS FIGHTS f DEATH AND DISEASE i . - : r four Nation-wide Services Promote Pro-mote Health Preservation and Accident Prevention. , A nation wide program for preservation preser-vation of health and prevention of accidental ac-cidental death Is on a ot the great ser-! vices of the American Red Cross. Four bureaus, manned by experts, direct this work. TUey are the Public Health Nursing Service; tha First Aid and Life Saving Service; the Home Hygiene Hy-giene abd Care ot the Sick Service, and the Nutrition Service. These services aim at preservation of health through skilled nursing cart; prevention of loss ot life In accidents; prevention of illness," through cleanliness cleanli-ness In the home and knowledge ot methods of care ot the sick; and raising rais-ing the standard ot physical efficiency through proper eating. This nation-wide campaign against disease and accidental death is conducted con-ducted through a majority ot the 3.531 Chspters of the Rod .Cross. It Is a community campaign, fitted to the health problems of each sectljn. ' The Red Cross, through Its Chapters, Chap-ters, Is the largest employer ot trained Public Health nurses In rural work in the United States. In Its campaign for preservation ot hesltu and prevention preven-tion ot disease it has aided In establishing estab-lishing S.onD or more community nursing nurs-ing services. , ' At the national headquarters an enrollment, en-rollment, ot nurses Is maintained, which forma a great nursing reserve. Unilor Its Charter from Congress this Red Cross Nursing Service Is the official offi-cial reserve for the United States Army and Navy Nursa. Corps. In addition, addi-tion, these nurses ar available In time ot disaster or epidemic This reserve re-serve list of trained nurses has In 1928 reached Its peak In number enrolled- there being now 47,000 nurses qualified quali-fied under Red Cross regulations who may be mobilized In time ofemer- ' gency. ' - ' 'V . The comprehensive, nation-wide program pro-gram of instruction In First Aid and Life Saving . maintained by . the Red Cross Is In answer to the appalling total of accidental deaths each year In the United States In its First Aid instruction among ' Bremen and police forces. In factories, railroad centers, great Industrie, and public utilities, the Red Cross annual-ly annual-ly reaches more than 160,000 men and ' women, whom It teaches to be alert, ready In case of accident, to apply Brit aid treatment. r ' The. campaign agalmtt accidental deaths through drowning has been carried throughout the country, and there now ire 173,506 men and -women, boys and girls, qualified as Red Cross llfd savers. " ' Y . , More than 600,000 certificates have been Issued to girls and women, boys and men who have completed the Rod Cross Home Hygiene and Care ot tha Sick' course, 'which teaches sanitation In the borne, safe care ot the Infant and child and of the invalid in the home. . , ' |