Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-10
RED CROSS EXTENDS
 ITS SERVICES D
 U. 5. COMMUNITIES
Headquarters Issues State ment Showing Disposition
 of Mercy Efforts

Washington, Oct a-More than 15.000 American communities re- eeived aid during the year ending adoption of precautionary methods last June rom the Red Cross n the against disease and disaster or in mitigating suffering caused 5v eirh- ar
 The activities of the Red Cross in this endeavor were summarized today in the second series of statements. ls- sued from Red Cross headauar-ers here. outlining the contents of the forthcoming lnuaI report and show ing another phrase of Red Cross ax- pedirures from funds given by US ten
 million aduIt and fourteen million junior members throughout the country.
 During the year. 5f1e Red Cross ors ganized ts departmen1 of health service; extended rs nursing service to meet rowing demand for pub- lie health nursing; taught it's first aId 10 injured courses to thousands: and took the lead n formation Of the worldwide Red Cross societies.. with headquarters m Geneva.
 The deDarrment of health service organized and at work during the last seven months of the year. was onerating t2S health eerters at the end of the year. From these radiar- at many activities designed 10 irn-  prove the health of I community and to prevent the spread of disease. while 435 Red Cross chapters aiso engaged actively in disease DrevHnta- tive work
 More Life Savers.
 The health depar-menr also had 312 employees serving at fiftv-Eva public health hosuitaIs- wrare 3G. .422 patients received some form of aid from the Red Cross. Fifteen hundred new members of whom 503 were wo-
 men, were added during the year co the life saving service branch of the first aid 10 injured department in which q complete vonan's corus also has been organized
 For the nursing service. the wear was one Of transition from military to civil activities During the war 2D,000 graduated nurses were assign ed to war service which aided rhe return 70 civil life of several 1u11-l dred- Sick nurses were cared for iR eonvaieseent homes, buiIt dur ing the war aB a cost of sIG.000.
 Enrolment in the nursing service increased from S5.426 TO 36,-05 dur crease Ehe number of quaIifiea nub-- lie health nurses the. national Rati Cross and it's iudividuaI cl1au1ars as-t abolished approximately 56o scholar ships at institutions over the eoun- try. Class instruction III nome hy-. giene a1G care= of the sick also iu-- creased rhree-fold turing the year. the attendance record being placed at 93-093- Two thousand nurses. aer- ing as instructors, had charge of this work The total expenses of the nursing service were sI29. .g65. a re- dlcrIon of s4a.3TI over the previous year.
 Among the achievements of cfe nursing department was the adop- tion by 5 states of uniform zneth- Cd of work in connection with the Red Cross. by which a dureas1 of public health nursing was initiated under the direction of q state health officer
 The work of the American society m the wirid-wide organization was descrfhed ov thE statement IS pure Y efucatienal.h serving to blaze Ehe trail for tte Ieague.' Methods already worked out by tfie American society were adopted as the plan 10 be- followed in all other countries.