Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-10-29
SPLENDID RECORD
OF RED CROSS IN
NORTH CAROLINA
Work Of Society Throughout State Has
Been OF Great Aid to All.
ACTIVITIES BROADENING
Aid to Soldiers and Public Health
Nursing Are Two Out
standing Features

Atlanta, Ca, Oct. 00.-Leaders Of
American Red Cross In North Caro-
lima are planning to base their APP
peal for memberships In the Fourth
Red Cross Roll Call November l1.25,
not simply on the general worthiness
OF the Red Cross cause, but on the
specific work Red Cross has done for
the state in the last two years since
the signing Of the armistice.
They declare. in letters to Division
headquarters here, their confidence
that, once the people Of North Caro-
lima, realize the actual service Red
Cross has given them in peace as well
as in war, and the fact that such serv.
Ice can be continued and broadened
on greater scale than ever with
proper support, they will eagerly re-
new their memberships, and will
do all In their power to secure a rec
ord membership throughout the state.
In order to emphasize the splendid
asset the Red Cross has been to North
Carolina since the war they have
made report on Red Cross work In
North Carolina, which was given out
at Division headquarters here re-
Gently.
The first mission OF the Red Cross
in North Carolina, as the country
The report says in part
over, has been to care for the inter.
ests of the ex-service man and his
family. This duty the Red Cross has
discharged since the war at the rate
Of 1910 cases-solders and sailors
famiies-a month, assisted in varie-
ty of ways. In addition, the Red Cross
has been able in North Carolina to
help 1859 civilians or civilians fami-
lies, to put the states public nursing
service on firm footing, to install
20 public health nurses in the state,
conduct IT'S classes In home hygiene
and care OF the sick, teach more than
5000 students, these principles and
knowledge Of dietetics, look after the
tubercular soldiers at Oteen, teach
first aid In high schools and colleges,
train large number Of social serv-
ice workers, and interest more than
IS, 900 North Carolina children in the
work OF the Junior Red Cross"
The report states there are 1872 Red
Cross chapters in North Carolina, with
total membership of about $4,000
and with 1874 fulltime secretaries and
workers OF whom are trained work
ers, SO are paid workers, and the rest
are volunteers.
Red Cross Nursing Service
The report gives examples of spe-
cific nursing activities at Andrews
ASHORE, Boone, Bryson City, Car.
thage, Chapel Hill, Gastonia, High.
lands, Edgecomb county, Morgantown,
New Bern, Newton, Catawba county,
Oxford, Granville county, Salisbury,
Rowan county, Tarboro, Washington,
Wilson and other North Carolina
towns where, states the report, amy
citizen will testify to the value of Red
Cross nursing service, particularly
during the influenza epidemic, when
all of the nurses worked to the limit
of their endurance, TO which fact many
people owe their lives"
The report comments on the mum
Der OF social workers trained for sery'
ice in North Carolina, and mentions
the Red Cross Institute being con
Quoted In cooperation with the Uni
yersity of North Carolina al Chapel
Hill. It describes community studies
which have been made, such as at
Raleigh, N. c., tells OF the first aid
courses conducted at number OF
chapters. relates the work of the Red
Cross for patients at Oteen, and CON
cludes with a description work by tha
Junior Red Cross, ranging all the way
from bid dinners" given by Viii
mington Junior 20 dolls and washrags
made by the Juniors Of Statesvllle,
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