Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-08
THE RED CROSS
CARING FOR HEALTH
Has Established Bureau Of Sanitary
Service.
TO HELP The STATE
Cleaning Up Cess Pools at Cantonmsnts
Public Health Service
Advance Agents

Following its policy of caring for
the health not only of the soldiers
and sailors of the United States. but
as well that of the civil population.
the American Red Cross has estah-
lished a Bureau of Sanitary Service
which will supplement and assist
Federal, State. and local health au-
,thorities in meeting sanitary emer
gencies created by the war The
work of the bureau will center in the
civilian areas surrounding army can
tonments
While sanitary control of National
Army cantonments, National Guard
Camps, and Naval Bases will be ex-
ercised by the military authorities,
the districts Immediately adjoining
these camps will be under no such
jurisdiction. Yet the assembling of
large bodies oE troops will create new
sanitary conditions. These must be
met to safeguard the health of civil
ians as well as of soldiers.
The problem of milk supply, for ex-
ample, will be greatly enlarged. The
supply itself must be doubled and
sometimes trebled and this means in
creased forces for inspection. In the
Southern States, where malaria is a
danger. the Red Cross has already ua-
dertaken efforts looking toward the
determination of mosquitoes. They
must be eliminated not only in the
camps proper, but in the surround
ing country. Cleaning up pools and
other breeding places within a mile
radius of camps will mean covering
from fifteen to sixty square miles.
When local health authorities are
insutficiently equipped to meet these
added problems, the Red Crosswill Of
fer the assistance of its bureau Of
sanitary service. 1t will take the field
only upon invitation of the local or
ganization in charge of sanitation.
The Public Health Service will act as
the advance agent, deciding in con-
junction with the local authorities
what measures are necessary and
how much equipment it will take to
meet adequately the new conditions.
Whenever requested by State au-
thorities, coupled with recommends
ton of the Public Health Service, the
Red Cross will furnish any important
military area with Sanitary unit.
This will consist of the required num-
ber of psychologists, supervising and
subordinate sanitary inspectors, pub
lis health nurses and assistants. The
Red Cross will be prepared to furnish
this unit with equipment and main
tenance, including laboratory equip
ment, transportation, and such sup
plies as disinfectants and screening
to enable the poor to carry out the
requisite sanitary precautions in their
homes.
w. II. Frost, surgeon of the Public
Health Service, has been assigned by
the Surgeon General at the request of
the Red ross War Council as director
of the Bureau of Sanitary Service.
DR.. Frost is one of the leaders Of his
profession, and has had wide expert
ence extending over thirteen years in
the Public ffealth Service.
He was in New Orleans during the
yellow fever epidemic of 1905. and has
studied poliomyelitis in Buffalo and
batavia, n. ", in Iowa, and in the
New York epidemic of last year. He
was also connected with the hygienic
laboratories which studied the pollu-
ton of the Potomac River and also OF
the Ohio River