Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-20
Nurses for Camps.

SS'A5Aou LII OuIy ny the A1ner1-
can Red Cross to the zones around the
national army environments, national
guard camps and naval bases. The
nurses will work under the Red Cross
sanitary directors in co~-operation
with h local, state and federal health
authorities. 80
Nurses have already taken up their
work In civil districts around the can
comments at Hattiesburg, Miss; Fl.
Rlley, Kansas; Des Moines, Iowa;
Louisville, Kentucky; Little Rock.
Arkansas; Aver, Massachusetts: Chi,
icothe, Ohio; Atlanta, Georgia; New
port News and Petersburg, Virginia.
AS visiting nurses in the rural terri
Tory n cities adjoining the camps.
the Red Cross nurses assigned to pub
lie health work will endeavor to pre-
vent the spread Of tuberculosis, ma
laria and social diseases, and to
strengthen the local infant welfare
programs.
Nurses have been chosen for This
service by Miss Jane A. Delano, chair
man OF the national committee on Red
Cross nursing, with special reference
70 the public health needs of the ma
ton as a. whole. If the public health
nursing service Of the state in which
the cantonment is situated is strong
lnanumbers the Red Cross has called
uponSnurses from that state. Other
wise, nurses have been chosen from
Ethe states from which the troops in
training have been drawn. "A perma-
nent Red Cross public health service
Will undoubtedly be the outcome of
the work now being undertaken in
army districts. -
Besides the special work in camr
zones, Red Cross nurses in the town
n country nursing service are al
work throughout the country, largely
IN rural n mining communities
N~inety-fou women are SO engaged in
nursing n teaching the care and
ffeedingsgo of infants, first aid and home
dletetics. and assisting lin: the fight
against tuberculosis. It has been esti.
mated that 4S%per cent OF the unior
troops in the civil war came from
the country districts. While the per.
centage will not be SO large in this
war, the Red Cross has undertaken
to see that their families and home,
are kept Well ~ safe against the day
OF the country soldiers return.
b a-- 81 0F H
American in Canada Sends KNITTING
Yours for America to win the wa,
and everlasting faith in Great Rrit.
Y Is the concluding sentence in .
letter written by IAN American won
an" IN Winnipeg to the state head.
quarters Of the American Red eros,
In Fargo. 49,
The American woman" advise.
the state headquarters that she haI
sent by mail a package of KNITTED
goods made by herself according 4,
the Red Cross regulations in Canad,
Tor the boys in the khaki. The article
are one pair Of socks, one pair q
Wrtstlets with place for thumbs. on,
trench cap and one sleeveless sweater
am an American resident i,
Winnipeg" writes the "America,
woman" and all through the wa,
have been deeply moved BY the brav
cry OF h Canadian boys who hav,
lgone to h front. I know that III,
~ OF the good old United state
Wall DO their bit with equal self
scrihce in the cause of humanity an,
VIII help to crush the barbartsm nov
rampant through the ambition Of ~,
German Kaiser and his military mar
I" have seen the boys come HON,
20 winnipeg wounded and disable,
Ior life, but I never saw n Of then
disheartened or sorry he had give,
sc much In the great cause. Bless M,
SWn americans, our American how,
IN Khaki, and may I have the hono,
q knowing that the work az ~,
aana VIII bring n Of them som,
GIgE5I 4st ags1@s