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Show NURSES SERVE IN . m EPIDEMIC WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec. 3 More than 12.917 graduate nurses, nurses' aids, practical nurses, and volunteers were assigned by the American Red Cross to fight the epidemic of influenza influ-enza through which the country has just passed. This announcement was made today at National Red Cross Headquarters, when the final reports of the assignment assign-ment of nurses and aids came in full detail, from the Red Cross Division directors di-rectors of nursing. Of this number. 3.97S were graduate nurses, many of whom are enrolled as Red Cross and Home Defense nurses. The emergency need has proved the great value of nurses' aids, and assistants assis-tants to work in co-operation with graduate nurses. S.939 pupil nurses, practical nurses, aids, and volunteer helpers were used. Laywomen helpers were pressed into service, and one six-teen-yearold girl writes of bathing a four-weeks old Italian baby 'who had the pneumonia, but was a dear, when recognizable." In military camps, and cantonment hospitals, the situation has been very critical. In Camp Dodge, Iowa, from 2 deaths on October 1st, the rate grew to 81 on October i4th. The number of nurses rose from 242 on duty the first of the month, to 520 on duly on October 14th. mo qutonuu v no, villus IIJU JJKl tron of the Red Cross House at Camp Dodge, "What should we do with the nurses? We had 66 to house overnight, over-night, so the big room, library and stage were stripped of furniture and hastily made into a dormitory, with extra beds for the nurses and the parents par-ents of critically sick soldiers." "We have trebled our nursing force within two weeks," writes Major Burch, who was stationed at Camp Dodge, "and practically all of them have been assembled through the Red Cross." The situation in Camp Dodge was present to a greater or less degree in all the military camp3 in the country, as well as among the civilian population, popu-lation, and It will be to the lasting honour both of the nursing profession and the laywomen of the country that volunteers to the number of over twelve thousand responded to the civilian ci-vilian need. oo A barrister, not so discreet as he might have been 'In th.o expression or his Ideas, was eneaged on a case con-comlnp con-comlnp some pics. "Gentlemen of the Jury," ho began, "there T.'crc tivonly-roitr pigs In thv Wrove. Just trrcnty:four; ..exactly twlpo as many as theroarc In that Jury box."1 |