Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-07
THIRD REDCROSS
ROILCALLISSET
FORNOV. II

The third Red Cross roll call will
be held in Americas, along with the
rest of the country, November Pill,
when the American people will be
asked to contribute SIS, O00,O0C for
the future work of the organiza-
ton.
Foremost of the Red Gross peace
program will Re nationwide activity
for the promotion of public health,
and hand in hand with this crusade
will go vigorous campaign for the
extension of the country'a nursing re-
sources. This is broadening of the
Red Cross home service, which in the
war proved tower of strength and
helpfulness to the families of sold
iers and sailors. But this plan of
the Red Cross public health campaign
calls for the cooperation of the peo-
pie of every town, and the co-opera-
ton of the health-promotion and dis
ease-prevention organizations all
over the United States, acting by it.
self where no health agency now ex-
lists in an effort to reduce the high
mortality due to preventable disease
and to improve health conditions.
Public health nursing will be one
of the important features of this
campaign. Red Cross public health
nurses will be assigned to as many
small communities as possible, thus
extending to the rural population the
bedside nursing, school inspection,
classes In home nursing and search
for tuberculosis and other preventa-
bic disease that has been so effective
IN our cities and towns. In this con-
nection it is planned to offer to ev-
cry woman in America instruction in
home hygiene, care of the sick and
home dietetics, thus providing first
hand knowledge of how to keep the
family well and what to do where ill
ness or accident cannot be avoided.
These courses are now being intro
duced in the public schools and col
leges, and are offered department
store employees, factory operatives,
girl scouts and others, fitting them to
help combat infant and child NOR
tallty, unsanitary living conditions,
preventable diseases, and even cpl
denies. Eighteen ladies of the
Plains branch of the Americas and
Sumter County Red Cross organiza-
ton have already signed for the
course in home hygiene and care of
the sick, and are just awaiting the
/ appointment of the Red Cross nurse
/ to be sent here from Atlanta. Such
courses, Red Cross authorities saw.
are needed right here in Americus,
and they urge that they be commenc-
| ed before cold weather SEES in with
the usual attendant increase in i'll
ness and disease.
The Red Cross home service Among
the families of American soldiers and
sailors has brought out the import
ant fact that 80 per cent. of the
places where the home service is n:.w
II operation there is no other social
~olk agency. Accordingly, there is
ar imperative demand, national in
scope, Red Cross authorities say, that
tins service, with It's thousands of
trained workers be continued and ex-
banded to assist all needy families in
communities where no other neigh
borhood social service is at hand.
Where social agencies are establish
ed, the Red Cross will not interfere
with their work, but cooperate and
coordinate with these organizations
when requested to do so. As always,
the Red Cross will always hold itself
ready to render any service to sold
iers, sailors and their families, and
give instant relief in time of public
disaster, such as fires, floods, cy-
clones, pestilence, famine or epidem-
les,