The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1918-07-20
BY MRS. THOS. B. CLIFFORD.

1t is impossible to exaggerate extent
cf Red Cross work.
On the Fourth of July the Ameri-
can Red Gross Commission to Great
britain sent to every American sol
der and marine on the headquar-
ars list, a small American flag, ar
extra allowance of tobacco and greet
iags conveyed to the men in the En-
;lish hospitals through the Red
Crosby President.
A special message to the sick and
wounded also was sent by Henry P.
Davidson, chairman Of the War Coun-
Gil of the American Red Cross.
Just read carefully the following
is American Red Gross.
Complete Hospital Equipment Sent
to Front via "Autochir."
The word "autochir" has been in
vented by Americans in France to
describe an American motor truck
train carrying a special kind of load
toward the front. The first syllable
is plain enough; the second is from
the word "chirugical," the old way
of spelling surgical. Combined, they
describe an American Red Cross
:ruck train Of eighteen camions, car
lying, in knocked down form, tent
lospital Of 200 beds.
One truck transports a complete
operating room ready to be bolted
together and put into operation in
a few minutes. It's trailer is a ster-
lizing room which is backed up
against hte operating room structure.
From this trailer the nurse passes
sterilized instruments and supplies to
he surgeons around the operating
able. The other trucks carry doub-
e tenting, sturdy frame work, floors
IN sections, window frames, heating
stoves and full equipment for diet
kitchens.
Red Cross construction crews, es-
1ecially selected and trained for this
work, go wit hthe trucks.
First Aid Class Organized. -
On Monday a First Aid Class was
organized with about twenty mem
bers. DR.. A. P. Smith is instructor,
and we hope to create sentiment OF
| Home Health Protection, where every
| woman who wishes to serve her Ma
tion and at the same time fit herself
TO protect her home, should follow
without delay the example of some
| 10000 women who felt that know
| ledege of home sanitation and mod
ern nursing was as necessary to the
modern housewife as ability to cook
palatable food That they may take
measures that would protect their
cases, and be able by intelligent SICK
room methods to hasten recovery OF
their sick, they completed the Red
Cross course in elementary hygiene
and home care of the sick
Care of the sick is frequently is
home matter. Trained nurses are
becoming more and more difficult tc
secure for individual cases, and hos
pitals must largely minister to those
seriously i'll or in need of surglca
or special attention. The time o.
| physicians must be economical. The
answer clearly is that not 10000 but
that millions of women should pre-
pare themselves in Red Cross course!
to help intelligently with their owl
sick or to aid the community in it:
health activities.
r Some thirty thousand nurses ar
to give their skill, often at risk o.
life, to save the Nations men in uni
form. Others enrolled as home de
Tense nurses will, in hospitals O.
through public health organizations
devote their. time to protecting tn
health of their communities.
By keeping our homes free from
preventable disease, we can keep l
from becoming passer on OF epi
demic We will be able to help intel
ligently to. develop Community o
neighborhood health protective mea
sures and to assist graduate nurse
in their public services.
Let us enter one of these hom
health protection courses right away
Civilian Relief and Home Servic
Committees.
Our Civilian Relief and Home Ser
vice Committees are doing goo