The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-11-22
What The Red Cross
 Did During Last Year

| care, and in Florida there are 50,- DOC persons looking to it for assist ance as a result of the tropical hur- rieane which swept out of the Carib bean sea in September and cut path of destruction over fifteen-hundred mile course. A relief fund of about $5,500,000 has been raised with which the organization is preventing intense suffering and in many cases actual starvation.
 2. During the organizations ifs cal year which closed June 30th, it gave assistance following SS disas- ters, 66 of which were in this country and 22 abroad.
 8. It's workers in nearly 5000 chapters in the United States have assisted an average of 40.500 serv- ice and ex-serviee men each month, helping them to settle government claims and procure hospital treat ment and seeing that their families | did not suffer while these claims were pending. At the same time Red Cross workers in camps and hospi- tals assisted an average of nearly | during the year more than 2z,000 recreation and entertainment events. 4. Carrying on civilian relief ac- tiFities only where there is no other agency to do it-mostly in small towns and rural sections-the Red Cross has assisted more than 10000 families during the year. l 5. In communities throughout the United States and in our Insular and Foreign possessions, it's 745 Public Health nurses have been fighting dis ease and suffering and improving the health standards of the nation. They have made more than a million visits to homes during the year to care for the sick and protect the well. Eight hundred and seventy-four thousand school children have been inspected and given assistance in having their pnySlcdl ueIecJS corrected.
 6. Nearly 6O,0OO women and girls have been taught, in the organiza- tion's Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick classes, how to give home care to the sick in their homes and how to prevent sickness by the proper care of the home and the family.
 2. In their fight against malnutri- tion, the cause of many physical de fleets in children and adults, the or ganization has given nutrition in- jtruction to 12S,000 persons of whom 122 900 were children.
 8. With 90,000 persons year dy- ing as result of accidents, the American Red Cross is waging a na- tion-wide campaign to reduce this annual loss of life. In the last twelve months it has instructed more than 150, ,000 persons in the United States in first aid for the injured, while the number of persons enrolled in its life saving corps after receiving in-
 
 rescuing and reviving the drowning persons, has reached nearly 174,000. During the year it has also given more than 1000 lectures and demon strations for the furtherance of this campaign.
 g. In addition to helping with the administrative and other phases of the work, Red Cross volunteers have during the year, produced more than quarter of a million garments and two and quarter million surgical dressings for use in disaster relief work and other contingencies They have also transcribed 1916 volumes into Braille, a system of raised let tering whereby the blind are enabled to read. Practically all Braille tran scribing in this country is done by Red Cross volunteers.
 10. The American Red Cross makes no appeals for funds during the year except following great na- tional disasters in which cases all funds contributed are spent for relief work in the disaster for which the appeal is made. This entire program of service is financed from member ship dues obtained during the Roll Call. In addition to this the mem bership funds finance many relief operations following relatively small disasters in which no special appeal is made.