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Show RED CROSS AGENCIES SAFEGUARD HEALTH First Aid, Life Saving, Nursing Care, Promote Health and Safety Five outstanding services make up the health-conservation program of the American Red Cross, according to the annual report just issued in Washington. These services are first aid and life saving, which together to-gether have trained more than a million persons; nursing, with an active enrollment of 36,133 registered regis-tered nurses; Public Health Nursing, Nurs-ing, conducted by 7500 nurses In 424 chapters last year; am Home Hygiene, Hy-giene, which has taught more than 700,000 men and women simple ways of caring for ttje sick at home. "The achievements of the 'Red Cross in public health nursing place it among the leaders in this field," said James L. Fieser, vice chairman in charge of domestic operations. "This service waj organized in 1919 to meet needs developed by the World War and the ravages of the flu epidemic which in 1918-1919 took so great a toll of life. "Since that time Red Cross nursing nurs-ing services have been pioneers in more than one halt of the counties in the United States. Many services we established were taken over later by civic, state and federal agencies, and the Red Cross continues to establish es-tablish services in other new fields. Red Cross nurses made more than a million visits to patients last year, and 629,025 children in schools were inspected. "Red Cross courses in borne hygiene hy-giene and care of the Bick are especially important in times of depression, de-pression, because they teach families fami-lies to maintain hygienic conditions In their homes and to recognize symptoms of illness early enough to prevent serious consequences. "Our courses In first aid have been ir.strumenlal in saving lives of the injured; in raf'-mianliisc the accident ac-cident vk-tim until the- physician |