The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-10-10
FIGHT ILLS Of
WHOLE WORLD
Bed Cross Organizations Every
where to Follow Lead OF
( American Societies.

The activities OF the American Hed
Cross for the fiscal years ending
June 80. last. fuilnllins the peace
time obligations OF It's Congressional
charter by mitigating suffering
caused by disaster and pestilence and
In devising and carrying on measures
for preventing the same, are shown
cn its forthcoming annual reporf tc
have touched in some form more than
$4,000 American communities.
During the year a Ped Cross de-
partment OF health service has been
organized; it's nursing service has
been extended to meet a growing de-
mand for public health nursing un-
I'll over $4,000 nurses are now on its
rolls; its frst aid to injured courses
have been widely taught, 5000 per-
sons having been awarded nrst aid
certificates during the year, and the
American Red Cross has been the
chief factor in the formation or the
League of Red Cross Societies with
headquarters in Geneva.
The department OF health service
was established December 1. 1919. On
June 80, 1920. there were in active
operation 12S health centers from
which radiate activities designed u
Improve the health OF the communi-
~ and prevent the spread OF disease.
while 435 Red Cross chapters were
actively engaged In disease-preven-
tive work
AWARD CERTIFICATES.
The bureau of first aid to injured
was transferred from the department
of military relief to the health de-
partmentsJanuary I, 1920 addition
to the 5000 certificates Issued to
those who have taken regular courses,
465 medals have been awarded, ten
first aid contests have taken place In
various States, 1900 medallions have
been distributed and IT'S Junior mem
bers have been awarded emblems.
The life-saving. or water frst-aid.
service has been extended the past
year by the addition of twenty-nine
iRed Cross Iife-saving corps and the
lenrollment OF /, 500 new members. OF
whom sos are women. There Is now
a complete woman's corps In this
branch Of the service.
The health department also includes
bureau OF medical social service,
(which had under It's supervision June
80, 1920, 312 Red Cross employees
serving fifty-two public health hos
pitfalls. OF this number 125 are hos
pital social workers, and during the
year 30,422 patients have received
from this bureau some form Of Red
Cross service.
PLACE WAR NURSES.
In the department of nursing the
fiscal years was one OF transition
from military to civil activities. AS
the Red Cross had assigned 10000
graduate nurses to war service the
department Of nursing felt response
~ iutl n n
life, and to this end has conducted a
bureau of Information which has
aided in placing at least $500 of
those who have sought its aid. In
this connection, also the Red Cross
appropriated 81 5000 for the establish
ment of a convalescent home for sick
nurses.
or the 6O4 nurses attached to the
various American Red Cross commits
sions in Europe when the armistice
was signed all but 116 had returned
to the United States by June 80. 1920.
OF these sixty-six were in Poland.
forty-six in the Balkans, two in
France and two in Bohemia. Six
scholarships to prepare nurse, for
foreign service have been established
At Kings college.
Enrolment in the Red Cross nurs-
ing service increased during the
year from 35. 426 to 38,705. On June
90 there were in active service 5O4
in the army, 321 in the navy and 943
in the public health corps.
In order to increase the number of
qualified public health nurses, for
which there Is urgent demand, 2sS
scholarships have been established
and sixty-seven loans have been made
from national fund to public health
nursing In addition, approximately
$50 scholarships have been awarded
by the various chapters. the Metro
poiitan Chapter of Boston alone ap-
propriating fund sufficient for siy-
~. while the New York County Chap
ter appropriated $4,000 toward the
preparation Of public health nurses
at the Henry street Settlement. Funds
have also been given to the Univer-
city of Minnesota, Peabody College,