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Show I Red Cross Drive ! Organized In Co.; ! Statistics Given i ' Even-thing Ready for Drive; 1 Workers Organize Through-1 Through-1 out County. List of Accom-1 Accom-1 pigments for Year Given. I I I H L Re'd" chairman of Wash-7" Wash-7" ip.i'n county chapter is in re-''1 re-''1 ifipt of an appeal from Admiral frv T Grayson, chairman of the American Red Cross. Washington, I j, C : ;n which he asks help in ? caching every man and woman ! every community with a per-t per-t !0n:l invitation to Join the Red I. Cross from Armistice Day to t Thanksgiving. November 11-26. " ? The slogan is "The People's Red I Cross." At least five million adult ' I members are needed nationally i0 carry cn a wide range of hu- sanitarian service to the Ameri-? Ameri-? tan people. i Madge Cannon, roll call chair-j chair-j roan, reports that everything is f ready for the drive. Each com-' com-' jiimity in the county has been , jreanized with men and women ' volunteering to make the drive. - 5 However. Mis. Cannon states that :( anyone is not contacted in the 8 5 rirst few days, she asks that she j be informed and a worker will : all. s ! Last year the American Red ' Cross gave assistance to 131,000 i- ( iimilies numbering 550,000 per-j per-j sas. as a result of 150 disasters 1 -ince the Red Cross began relief 'i years ago it has served on ' l.SSi) disaster scenes and ex-! ex-! ;.;nded more than $109,500,000 .n this work of mercy. ' Assistance was given-to 316,233 -i-seivice men or their families. R-i Cross workers dealt with I " problems of 41,315 men in the ' truly, Navy, Marine Corps and I roast Guard. I Two hundred and twenty-two . aiusand persons were given induction in-duction in First Aid. Since ' (Continued on page four) RED CROSS (Continued from first page) 1910, 1,173,494 persons have been given First Aid instruction. Red Cross Life Saving service enrolled 80,9 61 life savers after instruction. Enrollees since 1914 number 715, 20S. Life-saving methods have materially reduced the annual toll of drownings. More support to spread this knowledge knowl-edge is necessary. One thousand highway First Aid stations have been opened to reduce he loss of life. Fifteen Fif-teen thousand stations is the objective. ob-jective. More help is needed to finance this program. The Red Cross reached ten million homes with self-check lists to eliminate the hazards which cost thousands of lives in home and farm accidents. More members mem-bers are needed to broaden this safety campaign. Red Cross Public Health Nurses gave care to 233,616 persons and made over a million visits to or in behalf of the sick. They co-operated with doctors in examining 671,057 children. They found 342,861 with physical defects and arranged treatmentment for 20 9,-0S0 9,-0S0 cases . Maternity and infant care was given in isolated communities com-munities and drought stricken areas. Greater membership support sup-port will enable more nurses to carry forward hea'lth services ' in rural communities. Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick instruction was given in 4,-242 4,-242 classes and certificates were issued to 53,126 persons. Since 1914 certificates have been issued to S3S.055 persons. Thirty-seven thousand Red Cross nurses form a reserve for call by the Red Cross, the Army, Navy and other Government de-jj-trnents in emergencies or disasters. dis-asters. Red Cross volunteers gave nearly two million hours of time. They produced 6 S 5.0 7 4 garments; 4.355,719 surgical dressings; 16,-773 16,-773 Christmas bags for soldiers, sailors and marines overseas; 342,-274 342,-274 pages of Braille for blind readers. The Junior Red Cross carries on Red Cross work in 34.SS2 schools. It Ins 8,351.298 children child-ren enrolled. The National Red Cross has an enrollment of 4,137,636 adult members. |