Weekly journal-miner., 1917-08-29
RED CROSS WILL BULLETIN ITS
 ACTIVITIES
REAT ORGANIZATION WILL SUPPLY INFORM ATION RE RDIN WORLDWIDE WORK IN TIME OF WAR.
(From Saturdays Daily.)

to whom the Red Cross belongs, thor
 oughly familiar with all the activities
 of the Red Cross at all times, John l.
 Clymer, director of the Pacific Divis-
 ion of the American National Red
 Cross, has notified the publicity bu-
 reau of the Yavapai County chapter
 that bulletins and other publicity mat
 ter will be mailed to the chapters
 throughout the United States.
 The Red Cross is desirous that not only the people affiliated with its chapters and auxiliaries should know what it is doing and how 1t is dispos- ing of the money with which it has been entrusted, but that all of the people of the country should receive this information.
 In order to give this material which is given wide distribution and the most extensive publicity, the local papers have generously offered their assistance and from time to time in these columns articles treating on the various activities of the American Ma tional Red Cross will appear.
 One of the greatest works today of the Red Cross is that of infant well fare in France. A group of special ists in infant welfare work with Dr. William F. Lucas, professor of pedi- atrics in the University of California and originator of the Save Belgian Baby" movement, has been sent to France by the American Red Cross. Before the war the birthrate and deathrate in France were so nearly equal that publicists voiced their con cern over the future of the national life. Last year, however, with the death rate probably over 20 per 1000, not counting deaths of men in mili- tary service, the birth rate was offici- ally estimated at only s per 1000. IT. New York State the birth rate is g or 24 per 1000, the death rate about IA per 1000.
 The total deaths in France in 1916 were about 1,l00,000 Births num- bered only 3l2,OOO. The net loss in population was 7SS,0O0, or nearly ? per cent of the whole. In Paris, where 4S,9l7 babies were born in the year ending August 1, 1914, only 26,- 79 were born in the second year of ,hc war, ending August l. 1916.
 "There IS a crying need for effective work among children cables Major Grayson NJ. P Murphy, head of the American Red Cross commission now in France He reports that there is great need for doctors and nurses for work with mothers and children, and the infant welfare unit will be pre- pared to give such immediate relief IS 1t can.
 With Dr. Lucas in the unit, which | was financed by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, of Boston, are Dr. J. Morris Slemons, of the Yale Medical school, one of the best known of American obstetricians Dr. Julius Parker Sedg- wick, physiological chemist, professor 1t the University of Minnesota; Dr. John C. Baldwin, specialist in diseases of children; Dr. Clain F. Gelston, Dr. Lucas assistant at the University of California; Dr. \. O. Pearce, another specialist, and the following experts in sociology and child welfare work: Mrs. l. Morris Slcmons, Mrs. William P. Lucas, Miss Elizabeth Ashe and Miss Rosamond Glider, daughter of the poet.
 These specialists will survey the situation and study the work already being done by the French, and will practice without receiving compensa- ton from patients. The task before the Red Cross, which will be carried on by this and succeeding units, is not only to cooperate with French specialists but also to carry on a gen cral educational campaign among French mothers in the interest of better parental hygiene and scientific feeding and care of the babies. Special efforts will be made to protect chill ti Ilren from tubercular infection. which is particularly threatening France to- 1ay as result of trench warfare
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