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Show What Red Cross Membership Dollars Buy Have you ever stopped to think ' what a Red Cross membership means to you What happiness you could derive from this money if you knew Just how much good it is doing. Besides the national help below last year your dollar went to do the following things locally where $300 were spent for: Hospital Red Cross Room. Tonsilectomies. Maturnity cases. Eye Corrections. Operations. Nurses. Food, clothing, fuel and many other types of local assistance to those in need and distress. Disaster Relief: Served 1, 135,000 persons affected by 70 disasters. Civilian Relief: Red Cross Chapters Chap-ters aided 145,000 distressed families. Home Service: 250,000 war veterans vet-erans and their families assisted. Medical social service and other assistance as-sistance extended to 34,000 men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. First Aid and Life Saving: 80,-000 80,-000 new life savers and 220,000 new first aiders trained. There are now in operation 1,931 highway first aid stations and 735 mobile first aid units. Home and Farm Accident Prevention: Preven-tion: 1.750 Chapters are active in this field of Red Cross service. Public Health Nursing: 1,000,000 visits made to patients by Red Cross Public Health Nurses. 670,000 school children examined for physical defects. de-fects. Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick: 35,000 certificates issued. Junior Red Cross: 8,000,000 school children are members of the worldwide world-wide Junior Red Cross program. Volunteer Service: 680,000 garments gar-ments made; also 4,500,000 surgical dressings. Volunteers brailled 1,000,-000 1,000,-000 pages for the blind. THE ROLL CALL IS THE ONE APPEAL OF THE YEAR FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT OF THE REGULAR, REG-ULAR, RED CROSS PROGRAM. |