The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-08-01
RED CROSS nurse
IS COMING HERE
Public Health Nursing and Home
Hygiene instruction Part of
Peace Time Program.
SPEAKS AT CHAUTAUoUA.
Skurse the Most Needed Woman in the
World" Says Miss Jane A. DcIano,
Director of the Department of Nurs-
inG of the American Red Cross.

To place the public health on
higher plane than it has ever been is
shs Dbject of national program I'M
1sftaken by the American Red Cross
Is part of its peace time plan. From
s0ast to coast and from lakes to gulf
the Red Cross is spreading the gospel
oI good health and of the proper care
% the sick by fostering the study and
practice of nursing, both by organized
public health activities and by mem
befs of the family In every home.
Through the Chautauqua an official
representative Of the Red Cross De
partment of Nursing will soon tell the
people of this community the story of
what is being done and will ask their
cooperation.
One of the great lessons of the world
war is found in the unnecessarily low
standards of physical health revealed
This was brought out most fOrcibly In
the great number of reflections of
young men called to the cOlorS under
the Selective Service Law. Records
show that throughout the United
States one-third of the young men eX-
Rnincd for military service were dis
qualified from bearing arms for their
country through minor physical de-
feCts, a large proportion of which
might have been avoided by cOmpul-
sorry school examination and proper
medical and nursing care.
Urgent Need of Nu-ccs.
Further proof of the general urgent
need of women trained in nursing was
supplied by the cpidemics of Spanish
influenza that have caused terrific
I6Ss Of life and suffering throughout
the country. Hundreds of thousands
Of persons died, and in many commu-
zities the plague spread without any
:. adequate means Of checking it because
VI the impossiOlity of obtaining wom-
en- capable of caring for the victims
Reports show that many persons nc
tually died without attention because
the Overworked doctors could not
reach them all, nurses could not be
sound who knew what to do, ana
neighbors feared to go near the help
sess patients
The uselessnesS and danger Of such
q waste Of human power" is only too
apparent, for the health and strength
az nation can only be measured by
ttia- health and strength of its people
Recognizing the fact that the cruX Of
me whole situation lies in giving every
community the means of building up
lf9 own nursing strength, the Amcri-
Gao Red Cross, i'm cooperation with
tie various Chautauquas, is scndng
Sr0Qdcast the message that none can
afford to ignore.
Phases of Public Health Nursinu
Public health nursing Includes many
phases, such as bedside nuranc, in
which the nurse sits the PATIENTS
and gives them hourly care as neces-
Sary; school nursing; care of expect
AIT mothers. babies and small chill
aren work in factories and Industrial
eenters; rural nursing, and insiruc-
ion in Red Cross courses home hygi-
enc, home dietetics, care of the sick.
and various other forms of commu-
nifty service.
TO all American women the Red
D1oaS SENDS TINS message:
IF YOU are interested in nursing
as profession, enter one of the train
lng schools for nurses, many of which
oher scholarships, and specialize in
Duolc health work. If you are al
ready graduate nurse and anxious
TO enter this field, the Red Cross has
scholarships and loan funds which
20 lit
and mothers are urged to take the Red
Cross Course of Instruction in Home,
Hygiene and Care of the Sick so that
they Will be able TO maintain to the
highest degree the health and to nurse
members of their household in time Of
minor Illnesses"
throughout the length and breadth
OF the land the American Red Cross.
spreading the gospel Of good health. is
sounding a call TO American women TO
adopt the study of nursing, either to
Join profession which is daily be-
coming more highly valued or to fit
themselves for nursing in the home.
The Red Cross lecturer soon to APP
pear her will help her hearers visual
1ze the remarkable history Of nursing
service at home and abroad and will
expound the ideals Of health conserva-
zion so often neglected in many COM
munities. Supplementing the senti-
mental side Of nursing, the mother
touch, the lecturer will give a demon
stration Of efficiency in the sick room.
Modern methods of sanitation and SCI
entific handling Of the individual sick
and of epidemics will also be outlined
10 her audience.