The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-10-24
Amount on hand September
30, 1919 .........,....-..,....-,....$ Sc, ,721.17
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lLCdSulC1 SoAICy SIdplCls
L. E. Jones then gave an account of
the splendid work of the home SER
vice activities department of the Red
Cross covering a period of eight |
months. He stated that during that
time the service had dealt with 1883
individual cases, an average of 149
cases or 5 per day. Such excellent
service is deserving of the co-opera-
tion of every citizen and an appeal
for assistance in the work was made
by Mr.. Jones at this time.
Mrs. A. N. Peterson, as head of the
nursing service gave report of the
work done in the past few weeks by
this department, which is the latest
and one of the most important tasks
yet set before Valley county workers.
Mrs. Peterson has made several trips
with our public health nurse over the
county and set before the organization
the immediate need and value of the
work at this critical period of our
national and community life.
Miss Olivia Forster gave brief
survey of the work being accomplish
ed through the Junior Red Cross, of
which she is county chairman, and
Mrs. Leo B. Coleman, delegate to the
convention at Butte, gave a very IN
teresting outline of the state confer
ence held last month. DR.. Farrand,
who was the principal speaker at that
time delivered stirring address on
the work of the Red Cross and we
publish this address almost in it's en-
tirety in this issue of the Courier.
Valley County Public Health Nurse
Miss G. E. Westerman read an in
structing paper on "Public HEALTH"
and because of the inestimable value
to the work of such articles, we pub
lish it in full:
Too we'll those who took part in the
great world war realize that the Red
Cross should have a peace program,
and it is with interest, pleasure, and
a sense of duty that they are driving
ahead in this great work and not CIV
ing up the lines, just because the war
is over. 1t is hard for these workers
to believe that anyone, even though
he was connected with the Red Cross
in very small way during the war,
for very few were the people who did
not sew stitch -sa dollar or thor
oughly endorse the work of the Red
Cross, that such an organization should
have outlived it's usefulness.
You can all be proud Of Valley coun-
ty chapter in being farsighted in
keeping it's organization active, and
now the peace program is under way
The one phase in which am most vi
tally interested is public health. Be.
fore the war my duties were connect
ed with public health, so it seemed
quite the natural thing for the Rec
Cross leaders to place me with the
United States Public Health service
when went into service. 1t seemed
quite far-fetched to think l was do
ing my duty being connected with {
sanitary unit, when our boys wer'
facing the enemies and being brough
into the bases on stretchers and need
ing the nursing was able to give
Doing such duty was what all want
ed to do-being American women. Blu
ours not to reason why. Being goo,
soldier is to do we'll the task befor
you. Always with the hopes of beinl
transferred, we nurses of the service
filled in our part of the program. Thi
program was to make the communit,
around the camps safe place for tn
soldiers to live, enforcing the quaran
tine law, as much as possible; teach
ing the infected families how to car
for themselves and prevent the sprea
to other families; establishing con
tagious disease hospital; inspecting
, and requiring that all places handling
and serving foods should live up to tn
, requirements of the service. TIL
draining and caring for all swamps
where the malaria mosquitoes live an
: breed; establishing venereal diseas
/ clinic and hospital. If these thing
0 were necessary and advisable for tn
good health and retaining the goo
health of our soldiers, why are the
8 not necessary for those soldiers VIII
are civilians today, and their fam
lies. By all these preventive meas
0 ures the government was saved thous
ands of dollars. Why shouldn't tn
0 counties adopt these preventive meas
5 ures and benefit by what the govern
4 ment learned, not only saving none
O but individual suffering and unneces
1 sarily being permanently disabled i
many ways. If those boys who er
O listed for service had the advantag
of physical inspection when young
0 sters, the government would have say
ed time and money in its preparedness
6 Think of the value it would hav
10 been to the individual man. The fie
ures presented to US by the examinin
70 boards, on defects causing permaner
disability that could have been CO..
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