Connecticut western news., 1918-08-01
25,OOO NURSES
 ASKED TO ENROLL FOR WAR SERVICE
Red Cross Undertakes Task of Recruiting Number Needed
 by Army and Navy.
Women Urged to Enter Training Schools and Public Generally
 Asked to Help.

 cry is being sounded everywhere by the American Red Cross, which has undertaken the task of enrolling moro than 25,00o nurses for Army and Navy service before January l, 1919.
 Nurses, first of all. for overseas, cantonment and naval hospital serv- ice, and after that, nurses for every other service-for civilian hospitals, for public health stations. And last, but not least, the embryo nurses young girls for training schools in either military or civilian hospitals
 To prevent any serious shortage of skilled nurses to care for civilian sick in American cities, every married nurse, or nurse not now engaged in active nursing and not eligible for army service, is urged to enroll with the American Red Cross as a Home Defense Nurse, for assignment a few hours daily or weekly to nursing neignbors in emergencies and nursing in hospitals and dispensaries, baby saving stations and similar activities.
 Others will be needed 10 assist .ln carrying on the work of district viz ing or public school nursing. These additional nurses will render local service and at the same time will re- lieve from civilian duty many others who are needed sorely In military and naval establishments. The nurses in addition, are asked to enroll for emer- gency service in local disasters which call suddenly for a large number of nurses.
 Nursing Conservation.
 If all civilians who need skilled nurs- ing are to have care, 1t is important, the American Red Cross points out, that as few nurses as possible be em- ployed for all their time to care for a single patient. The public, therefore, Is urged to employ an individual trained nurse only in case of real ne- cessIty and to utilize visiting nurses for hospitals wherever accessible.
 These measures, together with the past time service of married nursas, it Is believed, will go far toward pN4 vidlng adequate nursing service for the civilian population in the United States.
 " are willing to make such adjustments as may be necessary the American Red Cross believes 1t will be able to recruit sufficient nurses for military duty without endangerlng the health of communities or disturbing the SUD- ply of nurses for the future. The American Red Cross recognizes that 1t is imperative to maintain the teaching and the executive staffs of schools for l nurses that there may be no interrup- ton in the supply of graduate nurses and that economical nursing may be avaifnble for the civilian sick. It real izes aIso the necessity of safeguarding to the utmost the health of the com munity through the service of the pub lie health nurses.
 The American Red Cross, neverthe- less. is urging the enrolment of all nurses with the understanding Atbat those vitally needed to maintain Nbcal nursing activities shall be allowed with the consent of the military authorities to continue their present positions as a patriotic service.
 How to Enroll.
 Nurses who wish to enlist should apply, or mail applications, to their To- cal Red Cross Chapter or direct to the Bureau of Nursing Service, Atlantic Division, American Red Cross, A East Twenty-third street, New York city. The body of enrolled Red Cross nurses constitutes the reserve for the Army and Navy Nurse Corps.
 They must not be over forty-fve nor less than twenty-one years of age.
 The success of American arms on land and sea depends in large meas ure upon an adequate enrolment of nurses for the Army and Navy, ac- cording to Surgeons General Gorgas and Braisted.
 "No more urgent need exists today and no factor can be more important in the winning of this war than ade- quate care of our sick and wounded" said Surgeon General Gorgas.
 Nurses who respond will have the infinite satisfaction of knowing that they are 1cssening the sufferings of the men of their own country; those bound by ties of blood, friendship and na- tional brotherhood.
 Nurses of America, your country calls your