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Show HEALTH PRESERVATION IS AIM OFRED CROSS Society Employs Rural Public Health NursesTeaches First Aid and Life Saving. . A comprehensive, nation-wide program pro-gram to prevent Illness, and to save lives through proper nursing care and advanced methods ot life aavtng and first aid la fostered by the American Red Cross. The organisation la the largest em ployer ot rural public health nuraes In the TJnlted States, through Its Chapters. The policy of the Red Cross It to encourage its Chapters to extend the publlo health nursing serv Ice, where leadership In thla field la not taken by some other agency la the community. The Red Cross health and lit saving sav-ing campaign embraces the following: preservation ot health through skilled nursing care: prevention of loss ot life in accidents; prevention of Illness through cleanliness In the home and knowledge of methods of horns care of the sick and raising the standard cf health and physical efficiency through proper nutrition. During the year Just closed, more than 42,000 certificates have been Is sued In the Red Cross course In Rome Hygiene and Care ot the Sick, and slnoe the courses were Inaugurated more than 600,000 persons have bees taught; 149,000 children were Instructed Instruct-ed In proper sating through the Nutrition Nu-trition course; 48,898 Individuals passed the severs Red Cross tests la Life Saving and EI.S96 persons passed the rigid examinations In the First Aid Course. This work to supported from funds obtained In the annual Roll Call, Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day. November 11 to IS. |