Arizona republican., 1918-01-26
RED CROSS ACTIVITIES

Selection and appointment to duty and supervision of nurses in disaster relief work, public health work, or oth- CT Red Cross nursing activities.
 Enrolment and direction of nurses for town and country nursing service.
 Education of lay women by. Red Cross chapters in elementary hygiene home care of the sick, and home diet cities,
 Women's Work
 Production of all kinds of relief SUD- plies, such as surgical dressings, hos pital garments and other hospital sup plies knitted garments, comfort kits, and Christmas packages for soldiers and sailors.
 Assisting in all forms of civilian relief
 Assisting at local canteens.
 Clerical, stenographic and similar as- sistance.
 Department of Military Relief
 Bureau of base hospitals: This bu- reau organizes base hospitals in con- nection with large hospitals and med ical schools in the United States, the doctors being commissioned in the medical officers reserve corps of the U. $. army, and the enlisted men are enlisted in that department.
 Ambulance corps to be later trans ferred to the medical department of the U. $. Army.
 Sanitary training attachments for teaching first aid, elementary hygiene, . and camp sanitation. Camp service, including distribution of comfort kits knitted articles and various emergency supplies.
 Canteen service for men in transit. Distribution of hospital supplies. Bureau of sanitary service: This bureau exists for the purpose of ex- tending Red Cross aid to the federal state, and local authorities in securing effective sanitary control of the areas | surrounding or adjacent to military areas of importance
 Junior Membership Enrolment of school children in Red Cross to offer a patriotic means of ex- pression and promote a better citizen 1 ship, including instructions in first aid dietetics, and the duty of being in all ways good neighbor. Foreign Relief Furnishes to our allies personal ser vice and surgical supplies, clothing l food, and other articles of necessity on requisition from our foreign commis | sions.
 The Phoenix chapter of the Red | Cross shipped to the troops stationed at Douglas last week: 126 sweaters. 3s scarfs, 1OS pairs ofisocks and 54 pairs of .wristlets. On Monday another shipment | will be forwarded to the men on the border.
 l Red Cross workers are advised by | headquarters that in cutting and sew ing garments that they: | Use pencil or chalk for marking notches, as when cut they interfere with flat fells.
 For all garments, stitch on edge. not near edge, to avoid leaving a creyict under which vermin might hide.
 Six cases of supplies will be for. warded to the Pacific division head quarters this week. Two boxes of hos. pital garments were sent few day: ago, containing 115 bed shirts, l35 paiI Of pajamas, 1 box of surgical dressings and sh dozen paper backed irrigation pads.
 For Red Cross nurses in the arm, camps, the American Red Cross ha appropriated $5,0O0 for the purchasin, of winter equipment
 To provide the American soldiers il this country with sweaters, heav, woolen socks. helmets, woolen glove and wristlets, the Red Cross Wa Council has just appropriated s1,50O. 900.
 The appropriation covers the pur chase of 500,000 sweaters; 250.OOO pair of socks; 250,000 helmets; 25O.0O0 pair of gloves, and 150,00 pairs of wristlets
 Appropriation of sS8,000 was als made for the purchase of 400. .00 pounds of woolen yarn for. resale to tn chapters at the price of s22o a poun6 This wool will be distributed to tn thirteen division warehouses in thi country and sold to chapters on thei orders. This wholesale purchase i made from national headquarters f assure the production of articles of standard grade and to fix a uniforr price for the material to chapter throughout the country. -O-