The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-10-16
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to workers:
Volunteers are urged TO regis.
ter for service at Headquarters,
telephone 1874, at once.
nose having automobiles that
can be devoted for this purpose
are requested TO register at
once, telephone 1874,
=, All agencies that have lists of
Shose willing to help--or of fam
lies needing assistance are re.
quested to eend names in to
fnsadquarters at once, telephone
Everything will be n readiness
fer action by d. M. Thursday. : VI.
Crucial Situation.
Fargo has been in large mart I'm
aware Of the really crucial situation
IN Its midst in the homes where many
members or the family are i'll and
outside help has been unavailable. AT
one OF the agencies where help is
sought there was application this
morning from a family where the
rather and five children were in bed
with the disease. The mother had
cared for the entire family fov six
days and nights without any outside
help. This morning she made a final
appeal for some one for any period of
time to attend to their immediate
needs while she got some needed
rest. That call was answered through
the volunteered assistance Of one
Fargo woman.
At 10 o'clock this morning there
bad been Is calls at the Nurses reg
istry and there were no women avail
able to be sent.
pTthiG 41oaFsTa ~ AI,1 FSIz5
Mission there were four calls for help
from families In desperate need and
no one available to send In the
Mission itself there are four patients
being cared for in the improvised
quarters that are possible there
These calls were subsequently, met.
The calls made on the women's de-
partment of the United States En-
ployment service were cared for with
the volunteer help which had offer
ed itself but more calls are being re-
ceived, hourly. IFS
DE- aSorKness, health officer,
said today that the situation To-
cally is just approaching the
crisis, that the patients who
were in condition to throw off
the diseases with a slight attack
had passed through the period Of
danger and that many Of those
now sick, were critically so, and
that the care which is provided
now means life or death to many.
In many households the labor of
caring for those sick has so far been
borne by the family itself but the end
Of human endurance is being reach
ed and the need for help in many
households that have so far attend
ed to their own wants will be made
known within the next few days and
it IS a call that will have to be an
swered almost entirely by volunteers
from among those who are not nor
mally in the labor market.
No Romance.
The call is for capable, intelligent
women who are willing in this crisis
to serve in any capacity that may be
needed in a family where sickness
has come.
at is no place for any sentimental
person looking for O. romantic thrill"
said one Of the public workers today
who has been searching the city to
supply the many calls for help.
There are dishes to wash, and beds
to make and patients to wash and all
Of the tasks that accumulate in the
household where there is sickness
and inadequate help. Only those wo-
men who can and will do such work
should present themselves. 1t is not
an opportunity for q sentimental ad-
venture but real opportunity for
hard work and service"