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Show RED CROSS FIGHTS DEATHAND DISEASE 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 one of the greal services ser-vices of the American Red Cross Four bureaus, manned by experts, direct this work. They are the Public Health Nursing Service; the First Aid and Life Saving Service: the Home Hygiene Hy-giene and Care of the Sick Service, and the Nutrition Service. These services aim at preservation of health through skilled nursing care: prevention of loss of life In accldinls: prevention of illness, through cleanliness cleanli-ness in the home and knowledge of methods of care or the sick: and raising rais-ing the standard of physical efficiency through proper eating. This nation wide campaign against disease and accidental death Is conducted con-ducted through a majority of the 3.532 Chapters of the Rod Cross. It is a commuuity campaign, fitted to the health problems of each section. The Red Cross, through Its Chapters, Chap-ters, is the largest employer of trained Public Health nurses in rural work in the United States. In Its campaign for preservatiou of bealtu and prevention preven-tion of disease It has aided in estab lishiug 2,000 or more community duts-tng duts-tng services. At the national headquarters an enrollment en-rollment of nurses is maintained, which forms a great nursing reserve. Under Its 'Charter from Congress this Red Cross Nursing Service Is the official offi-cial reserve for the United States Army and Navy Nurse Corps. In addition, addi-tion, these nurses are available In time of 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 of emergency. emer-gency. The comprehensive, nation-wide program pro-gram of Instruction In First Aid and Life Saviug 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 firemen and police forces, in factories, railroad centers, great industries, and public utilities, the Red Cross annually annual-ly reaches more than 160,000 men and women, whom it teaches 10 be alert, ready in case of accident, to apply first aid treatment. The campaign against 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 life savers. More than 500,000 certificates have been Issued to girls and women, boys and men who have completed the Red Cross Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick course, which teaches sanitation ! in the home, safe care of the infant and child and qf the invalid in the home. |