The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1921-11-16
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Red Cross
Roll Call Now is Going Or
Throughout the Nation.

It's annual ron Gait, November ! /
10 November ~, will ask The
American people for continued
allegiance and support during the
current year through renewal of
membership.
This rccor,l includes relief
rushed in disaster, food furnised
to famine district, actual service
Of ministration in thousands of
homes afflicted by sickness, cam
paigns of education in home by
gicnc and care of the sick, sal
wage Of life and property in in
dusirial accidents, and labor for
thousands and thousands of cX-
service men and members of their
families i'll their fight To meet
the new problems of every day
life.
Forty three disasters resulting
in the death in the United States
Of $50 persons aud the injury of
1900 called for emergency re-
lief measures and the expendl-
turc of $I,S71, 900 by the Red
Cross during the year.
A summary of the years dis
astcrs shows they were of vary
ing types, including several
which have never been regarded
as falling within the disaster
classification. Red Gross relief
was furnished in II fires five
Hoods; seven tornadocs or cy-
clones; one devastating storm;
three explosions, including the
one in Wall Street one building
accident: two typhoid epidemics,
the most serious being that at
salem, Ohio, which affected nine
per cent. of the population one
smallpox epidemic in the repub-
lie of Haiti; one train wreck :;
the race riot ut Tulsa, Okla. !;
The famine i'll China, affecting
millions of persons; emergency
relief in famine among the In
dians of Alaska the grassioppcr
plague in North Dakota and an
earthquake in Italy.
ABy far the most severe of the
disasters in the United States
during the period covered by the
annual report, was the Pueblo
flood early in June. The rehab-
llltation problem here was the
most serious encountered by the
Red Cross in recent years. The
terrible havoc wrought by the
flood waters is a matter OF rec
ord. More than 1890 homes
we're affected and 1851 persons
were left homeless.
In connection with the admin
istration of disaster relief meas
ures, an increase effectiveness on
the part of the Red Cross to deal
with emergencies was manifest
during the year. Through its
chain of chapters, linking vir-
tually every county in the coun.
try with national headquarters
At Washington, the Red Cross
has established Il network OF
communication through which
instantaneous relief may be dis
patched to any part of the Unit
ed States.
Through its home hygiene and
care of the sick, nutrition, first
AID and life-saving classes and
health centers, and in numerous
other ways designed to acquaint
masses of citizens with proper
methods of living, the Red Gross
carried its message of health into
all parts of the country. The
American Red Cross nursing ser
vice, the reserve of the army,
navy and public health service,
today has enrolled 37,7S7 nurses,
an increase of 1,0Sl over last
year.
in the United States last year,
i6,432 persons were killed and
$500, 900 injured i'll industrial
accidents. To prevent this enor-
nous waste of human life, the
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