Milford chronicle., 1919-11-14
BIG RED CROSS
PEACE PROGRAM
New Plans Of Organization
Bring It to Every Person
and Home in Country.
As I'M .,IiTANT AS IN WAR

Nationwide Activity For Improving
Public Health and Expansion Of its
Nursing Resources TWO Objects.
The peace program Of the American
Red Cross has just been made public
and it is gigantic in its scope. 1t is
so comprehensive that it will bring
the activities OF the organization into
practically every home and into the
life Of every person in the country.
The Program.
Foremost will be nationwide ac-
tvity for the promotion of public
health and hand-in-hand with this cru
SADIE will go a vigorous campaign for
the extension Of the country's nursing
resources the broadening of the Red
Cross Home Service, which in the war
proved so help1ui through the assist
ance It was able to give the families
of soldiers and sailors, to be of gen
eral usefulness where other social
agencies are lacking greatly increas-
ed Junior Red Cross activities; ex-
tension of Red Cross facilities for
emergency disaster relief; completion
of relief measures for the victims of
the war in this country and overseas,
and preparation to fulfill whatever
duties may be laid upon It as the vol
unteer relief society officially author
lied to assist the army and navy.
The plan of the Red Cross public
health campaign calls for cO-Opera-
ton with other existing health pro-
motion and disease prevention organ
lzailons throughout the United States,
acting by itself where no health
agency now exists, in an effort to
reduce the high mortality due to pre-
ventable disease and to improve gen /
eral health conditions.
The Public Health.
Public health nursing viii be one
of the important features of this cam
paign. 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 hygiene and home nursing
and search for tuberculosis and other
preventable disease that has been so
effective in the cities and larger
towns
In this connection it is planned to
offer to every woman in America in
strucuon in home sanitation, hygiene,
care of the sick and dietetics, thus
providing irst-hand knowledge Of how /
to keep the family well and what to :
do where illness or accident cannot be
avoided These courses are now be-
ing introduced I'm the public schools
and colleges and are offered depart
ment store employees, factory opera
lives girl scouts nursemaids and 9TH
ers fitting hem to help combat infant
and child mortality, manutrition un-
sanitary living conditions preventable
disease. and epidemics in their own
homes.
The seven thousand public health !
nurses In the United States are far :
too few to meet the eyer-increasing :
demands for their services. 4
Home Service. a
Home service among the families of
American soldiers and sailors has
brought out the important fact that in (
90 per cent of the places where Home
Service is now operating there is no o
other social work agency. According I
ly there is an imperative demand, =
national In scope, that this service I
with its thousands of highly trained 4
workers. be continued and expanded +
10 assist all needy families in com d
nunities where other neighborly re- o
lief is not at hand. c
As always, the Red Cross must hold p
itself ready for instant relief service
Ia time of public disaster, such as g
great fires, floods, cyclones, ship :,
wrecks, earthquakes, pestilence, fam a
ne and epidemlcs. Experience in the
war and the great organization built OF
lp through that emergency will with et
quickly available funds make this "
branch Of Red Cross activity more ef-
'ectlve than ever before.
The Junior Work.
The Junior Red Cross, with its mill ri
ions of members in the schools. pub W
lc and private, throughout the United III
,tates, has laid plans calling for :;
100000 for relief work abroad, this u
mount constituting 60 per cent of the AZ
money the Juniors raise, the remaind-
r to be used for local relief in CO. da
peration with Home Service It is
lso planned to have the junior men, tn
ers supplement and assist in the work at
the national organization where w
yer possible with especial regard to NJ
be needs Of children IN
The turning over to the American 81
ed Cross Of the surplus medical and
lrgical supplies and supplementary Pc
'od stores Of the American army an
broad for distribution among the co
Ill suffering native populations, to- MI
sther with the foreign relief pro- ai,
ans still being carried out largely o,
Poland, the Balkans and Siberia. n, M
'ceSsltates the continuance Of Red
TOSS operations overseas. fri