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Show FIRST AID TRAINING TO MEN AND WOMEN American Red Cross Is Teaching Hundreds of Thousands Life-Saving Life-Saving Methods. The purpose of Instruction In First Aid to the injured offered by the American Amer-ican Red Cross Is to train men and women to administer First Aid treatment treat-ment promptly and Intelligently when emergencies demand It. First Aid treatment is not intended to take the place ef a physlcluu's service. A surgeon sur-geon should always be summonced as a precautionary measure where there Is an injury of any consequence, but when one cannot be secured few minutes' min-utes' delay may mean a fatality. In such a case a person trained In First Aid Is Invaluable not only to the individual, in-dividual, but through him te the -community In which he lives. There Is perhaps no way of ascertaining ascer-taining the number of deaths or serious seri-ous disablements which result from lack of proper safeguurds or prompt emergency treatment It Is safe to assert as-sert they number thousands., daily. There can be no doubt that the application appli-cation of First Aid methods to each case would Immeasurably lighten the country's toll of suffering and death, ... The dissemination of First Aid train-, lng tfnti lufohnatlon has already produced pro-duced a farreacblng and beneficial Influence In-fluence In the prevention of accidents on railroads, in mines and In great Industrial In-dustrial concerns. The benefit of a widespread knowledge knowl-edge of First Aid In the event of a great disaster, such as a train wreck, an explosion, an earthquike, etc., is obvious. Laymen who have had First Aid training can render efficient assistance. as-sistance. Many lives may depend upon such emergency care. Rod Cross First Aid work Includes (1) the formation and conduct, through Red Cross chapters, of classes for instruction in-struction in accident prevention and First Aid to the Injured among men and women in all communities and In every industry; (2) the Introduction of courses of Instruction In high schools find colleges. The Red Cross Is prepared to supply FiiNt Aid honks mill equipment ut rea-S'Minlile rea-S'Minlile prices. Every person in this country nhle to do so should. In M.i own interest, receive re-ceive Red Cross First Aid Inst ruction. Information about the course and in struction classes may be had at the nearest chapter lieiuhiuiirlcrs. j |
