Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-05-31 | Page 18 | Call is Imperative for Utah Nurses

CULL IS IMPERATIVE FOR M NURSES Red Cross Will Open Campaign Cam-paign Monday; State's Quo'ta Twenty-one. In response to an imperative call for thousands oi' additional nurses for service ser-vice in the army, the Red Gross of Utah trSL through the State Nurses' association, asso-ciation, open a campaign Monday to supply without delay its share of the number required to fill demands. There are between 230 and 'M0 registered regis-tered nurses in the state, according to Miss Damaris A. Beemau, secretary of the state association. Utah has already sent an e.ven forty nurses into active service since the beginning of the war, many of whom are now in France and Flanders. The state's quota desired for immediate imme-diate service, in addition to those who have already gone, numbers twenty-one, twenty-one, and the quota to be filled by January 1, 1919, is set at 105. The Red Cross and the officials of the nurses' association seek to impress upon the public that services of nurseB should not be used in private cases, except where it is a case of life and death. Doctors, likewise, are urged to dispense with nurses as far as possible. pos-sible. Over and over again has the Red Cross voiced this urgent need for nurses in the columns of its official, organs, and thousands of devoted young women have loyally responded to the call, but it is evident that the demand for trained women to care for the wounded and sick in the hospitals has far exceeded the supply. New York dispatches are to the effect ef-fect that the Atlantic division of the Red Cross is expected to furnish 5000 nurses within ten days, and that 10,000 must be available for service from thisi division alone before January 1, 1919.