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Show RED GFiOSS M1YANPING IN HEALTH CAMPAIGN 'Extends Service to New F-ields and Brings Healing Hope to Remote Sections. "The supreme opportunity for leadership" lead-ership" for the American Red Cross is its health service. Thus a committee made up of prominent physicians, sanitarians san-itarians and public health experts, after months of exhaustive study, reported re-ported and urged that not only should the Red Cross continue its present service, but should undertake a comprehensive educational campaign along public health lines. The annual an-nual report of the American Red Cross, just Issued, discloses that it has grasped this opportunity in the fields of public health nursing, instruction in-struction in home hygiene and care ot the sick, nutrition work, first aid to the injured and in water life-saving. Health service is fundamentally, historically and practically an important impor-tant function of the Red Cros3, and each year marks Its extension into new fields and along broader lines. In the Red Cross Nursing Service there are enrolled nearly 40,000 nurses, 20,-000 20,-000 of whom served during the World War. The past year Red Cross nurses were assigned to duty in isolated sections of Alaska and North Carolina Caro-lina and to work among the fishermen fisher-men of Penobscot Bay, Me. The Public Health Nursing Service, inaugurated by the (American Red Cross in 1912, which operates chiefly in rural sections untouched by other public health agencies, has 1,038 Red Cross nurses working under the direction di-rection of Chapters. This work has won so high a regard that many of I the nurses are taken over by the local authorities to maintain health services for their communities. Instruction in Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick is noting a steady advance. Since 1914 certificates of proficiency have been given 304,427 women who completed com-pleted the Red Cross course. In the last year 26,595 certificates were awarded and 65,901 students were under un-der the instruction of 1,054 Red Cross nurses. The benefits derived from meals balanced to meet each person's peculiar pecul-iar needs is winning widespread recognition rec-ognition through the work of the Red Cross Nutrition Service, particularly in the schools. During the school year 2.GSS carried on regular instruction instruc-tion in nutrition, reached more than 150.000 children and adults. More than 2,250 volunteers assisted in this work. Throughout the country 35.2S3 health meetings were held under Red : Cross auspices, attended by approximately approxi-mately 254,500 persons. |
