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RED CROSS TO ASSIST
LOCAL OFFICIALS
Efforts Will Not be Confined - S"i~
dier> And Sailors. But Will Aid
Local Officials i'm Caring For Sit
nations Caused by War.

Washington. D. c.. Aug. 6.-Fol-
lowing its policy OF caring Tor the
health not only OF the soldiers and
sailors of the United States. but as
well that OF the civil popniaion, the
American Red Cross has established
a Bureau OF Sanitary Service, which
will supplement- and assist Federal.
State. and local health authorities in
meeting sanitary emergencies tred-
ted BY the war The work of the
Bureau will center in the civilian
areas surrounding army environments
While sanitary control of National
Army CantonmentS, National Guard
Camps. and Naval Bases will be eN-
ercised by the military authorities.
the districts Immediately adjoining
these camps will be under no such
jurisdiction. Yet the assembling OF
large bodies of troops will create
new sanitary conditions. These
must be met to safeguard the health
OF civilians as we'll as of soldiers.
The problem of milk supply, for
example. will be greatly enlarged
The supply itself must be doubled
and sometimes trebled, and this
means increased forces for inspec-
ton. In the Southern States, where
malaria is Il danger, the Red Cross
has already undertaken efforts look
ing toward the determination OF
mosquitoes. They must be eliml-
mated not only in the camps proper,
but in the surrounding country.
Cleaning up pools and other breed
ing places within Il mile radius OF
camps Will mean covering from hf-
teen to sixty square miles.
When local health authorities are
insufficiently equipped TO meet these
added problems, the Red Cross will
offer the assistance Of its bureau OF
sanitary service. 1t Will take the
field only upon invitation of the To-
cal organization in charge of santa
ton. The Public Health Service
will act as the advance agent, decid-
ing in conjunction whit the local au-
thOritieS what measures are neceS-
sary and how much equipment it
will take to meet adequately the
new conditions.
Whenever requested by State au
thorities. coupled with recommen
dation of the Public Health Service,
the Red Cross will furnish any i'm
pOrtant military area with a Sanitary
Unit This will consist Of the re-
quired number of psychologists, SUI
pervising and subordinate sanitary
inspectors. public health nurses and
assistants. The Red Cross will be
prepared to furnish this unit with
equipment and maintenance, includ-
ing laboratory equipment, Transpor
tation, and such supplies as disinfac
tants and screening to enable the
poor to carry out the requisite SAM
tary precautions in their homes.
W.. H. Frost, surgeon of the Pub
lie Health Service has been assigned
by the Surgeon-General 1T the re
quest of the Red Cross War Council
as director of the Bureau of SAM
tary Service. DR. Frost is one OF
the f lea s-ef tbs profession, and he's
had wide experience extending over
thirteen years in the Public Health
Service.
He was in New Orla-..- during the
yoJlaw feyer-~pIuemic of 1905, and
hoe ys.-oTed poliomyelitis in Buffalo
I'D Batavia, y. Y, in Iowa. and in
the New York epidefic of late years
He was also connected with the by
gienic laboratories which studied
the pollution of the Potomac river
and also of the Ohio river