River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-12-05
YEOMAN SERVICE
BY HOME AGENTS
States Relations Workers Do
Not Hesitate When Called
Upon for Help.
MAKE Fight ON INFLUENZA
Special Food Prepared by or Under
Their Direction for Sick-Open
Hospitals and Supply Nurses
in North Carolina.

Wnen the influenza epidemic maze
1t impossible to hold meetings of any
kind, the home demonstration agents
all over the country, in response to the
call for trained, intelligent help, went
to the rescue and have been doing
yeoman service throughout the fight to
gain the upper hand of the "flu."
knowledge of Foods.
Particularly valuable has been these
women's knowledge of foods and diets.
Vast quantities of broth, egg lemon
AIDES, custards and other good things
have been made ready for the sick by
the energetic agents and workers. OF
much Importance in aiding to combat
any disease are nOurishing and proper
foods.
Six hundred and sixteen pounds of
beef and chicken were, in a short time,
in the kitchen of the states relations
Service of the department of agricul-
ture in Washington, turned into broth.
Dozens of eggs and gallons of milk
went from the same kitchen to the hos
pital in nourishing guises. Volunteers
a1ueu LnOSe on the stan.
The entire charge of the food sent
those i'll from the influenza from one
of the emergency centers in Washing
ton, as well as the feeding of the doc
tors and nurses there, was under the
direction of the states relations service
kitchen.
Another particularly valuable kitch-
en- was one established in Tampa, Fla,
for the relieving of influenza patients
there.
Splendid Work in North Carolina.
Agents in several counties, it is re-
ported from Raleigh, opened and Oper-
ated diet kitchens, cooperating with
the Red Cross in furnishing proper
punishment to the sick, while agents
connected with the department of ag-
riculture in other counties have sup
piled hot broth either directly to the
families of the afflicted or by boy
scouts under 7. M. G. A. direction.
A home demonstration agent for
CabarruS county, North Carolina,
writes: 'T came to Kannapolis this
into a soup kitchen. 1t is ideal for
the purpose. There are over 800 peo-
pie absent from the mill today, which
will show you how our efforts are
needed. The Y. NJ. G. A. director is
having our soup distributed by the boy
scouts, and we are sending it out in
glass jars, fitted into the pasteboard
boxes in which they were bought.
This keeps the soup hot.s
Act as Emergency Nurses.
The central district agent in North
Carolina is nursing in the emergency
ward at the State College of Agricul-
ture and Engineering; the eastern dis
trict agent has been emergency nurse
for members of the extension service
sick in Wilson; a specialist is in charge
of the diet at the same institution and
is in close touch with the local Red
Cross chapter, which supplies many
forms of nourishment.
Emergency diet kitchens have been
established in the domestic science
department in the high schoo. at Ashe-
vile, and in the courthouse at White
vile. Washington, n. c., also has a
kitchen operated by a home demon
stration county agent who reports:
1--WE keep open until far into the night,
and we have been able ito fill a real
need"