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Show WAR NURSES ARE TO AID THE FAMILIES WASHINGTON, Sept 21. Fifty pub-lie pub-lie health nurses ha been assigned for duty in the zones around the national na-tional army cantonments, national guard camps and naval bases. Tho American Red Cross war council announced an-nounced today that they would work in co-operation with local, state and federal health authorities in an endeavor en-deavor to provent spread of tuborcu-losls, tuborcu-losls, malaria and other diseases. Nurses already have begun work in civil districts around tho cantonments at Hattlesburg, Miss.; Fort Riley, Kan.; Des Moines, Louisville, Lfttie Rock, Ayer, Mass.; Chlllicothe, Ohio; Atlanta and Newport News and Petersburg, Peters-burg, Va. Besides the work In camp zones nurses in the town and county nursing service are at work throughout the country, largely in rural and mining communities, In furnishing the movement move-ment to protect tho families and homes of men called for war service. |