The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-06-17
HEALTH IN
HOME AND SCHOOL

WAShINGTON, June ~, i92I--
American women and girls are dis
playing an unprecedented interest in
home care OF the sick. How wide
spread Is the increase of their en-
thusiasm IL shown by the announce
ment hy the American Red Cross that
enrolment in It's chapter classes In
home hygiene and care of the sick Il
growing at the rate of more than 800
per cent annually. Eighteen hundred
Red Cross instructors. in urban and
rural communities throughout the
country, are now engaged In teaching
home hygiene and care of the sick.
While figures for the current year
are not yet available, reports reach
ing national headquarters from the
Held indicate that the total number
completing the course for this year
viii far exceed that of the fiscal year
ending June 30. 1880, which was o.
US5. Even this figure for the year.
large as II is, By no means represents
the total number that received In
Stfuction, for thousands more were
enrolled and received instruction but
for various reasons did not compete
for the certificate. For the fiscal year
.l9is-lgiD. the number awarded GER
tizeates was 3i,033.
Virtually every type of school in
the United States has embraced the
opportunity to give instruction In the
proper methods OF safeguarding
health In the home and minimi xinY
the dangers OF disease and epidemics.
High schools, grade schools, vocation
al schools. bible schools, Americanix-
tlf
schools for the deaf and schools for
the blind are offering Red Cross
courses In home hygiene and care of
the sick. Universities and colleges
have also made such courses "A part
of their curricua.
In girls camps, in industrial plants,
commercial organizations, churches
and in neighborhood groups, wherever
located, the effect OF such teaching /.
making itself apparent In the broad
tning interest in community health
problems.
The types Of class rooms in which
the instruction h given vary greatly
as the character OF the groups seirsn-
selves. From the university, college
and city school rooms To the attic OF
u country school, AN unused quarter
OF u county jail or small community
IRE department are 10 be found the
teaching centere.
In addition To the national charar-
ter of the work. there Is the interna-
tionai aspect. In the disrup,d nations
of Europe. wherever the minist rations
Of the American Red Cross have been
felt, there follows instruction in home
hygiene. In the inxular possessions
OF the United States, in Alaska and
elsewhere reports come 10 national
headquarters of the completion of
courses and the institution Of new
new classes.
The Red Cross textbook used In
the course. Home Hygiene and Care
of III Sick. already has been translate
ed into Russian and Korean. Copies
Of the manual. in these tongues form
an interesting exhibit in the museum
at national headquarters. In addition
portions of the textbook have been
translated in pamphlet form into Jap
anese, Spanish. Polish and Slovak and
bohemian dialects.
A. IA direct result OF the opportun-
ity for service to humanity revealed
BY such classes. many young women
are pursuing their studies further
with the intention OF becoming nurses.