The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-11-16
WHAT AMERICAN RED CROSS
HAS ACCOMPLISHED DUR
ING THE LAST YEAR

ING THE LAST YEAR
In Porto Rico the American Red
Cross has a half million homeless
and destitute persons under Its care,
and in Florida there are $4,000 per-
sons looking to it for assistance as a
result of the tropical hurricane
which swept out of the Caribbean
Sea in September and cut path OF
destruction over a fifteen hundred
mile course. A relief fund of about
$5,500,00O has been raised with
which the organization is preventing
intense suffering and in many in
stances actual starvation.
During the organizations fiscal
year which closed June goth it gave
assistance following SO disasters,
Sc of which were in this country
and % abroad
Its workers in nearly 5000 chap
ters in the United States have assist
ed an average of 4O,5OO service and
ex-serivce men each month, helping
them to settle government claims
and procure hospital treatment and
seeing that their families did not
suffer while these claims were pend
ing At the same time Red Cross
workers in camps and hospitals as
sisted an average of nearly $1,000
men each month and arranged dur
ing the year more than $4,000 rec
reation and entertainment events.
Carrying on civilian relief ac-
tivities only where there is no other
agency to do it-mostly in small
towns and rural sections-the Red
Cross has assisted more than 10,-
900 families during the year.
In communities throughout the
United States and in our Insular and
Foreign possessions, it's 745 Public
Health nurses have been fighting di-
sease 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 to protect
the well. $4,000 school children
have been inspected and given as
sistance in having their physical de-
fects corrected.
Nearly $4,000 women and girls
have been taught in organizations
Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick
classes, how to give home care to the
sick in their homes and how to pre-
vent sickness by the proper care of
the home and the family.
In their fight against malnutri-
ton, the cause of many physical de-
fects in children and adults, the or
ganization has given nutrition in
struction to 128,0O0 persons of
whom 10000 were children.
With 10000 persons year dying
as result of accidents, the Ameri-
can Red Cross is waging a nation
wide campaign to reduce this annual
loss of life. In the last twelve
months it has instructed more than
10000 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
tensive instruction in methods for
rescuing and reviving the drowning
| persons, has reached nearly $4,000.
During the year it has also given
more than 1000 lectures and dem
constructions for the furtherance of
this campaign,
In addition to helping with the
administrative and other phases of
the work, Red Cross volunteers have
during the year, produced more than
a 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. & system of
raised lettering whereby The blind
are enabled to read. Practically all
Braille transcribing in this country
is done by Red Cross volunteers.
The American Red Cross makes
no appeals for funds during the year
except following gfeat national di-
sasters in which cases al funds con-
tributed are spent for relief work in
the disaster for which the appeal
is made. This entire program OF
service is financed from membership
dues obtained during the Roll Call
In addition to this the membership
funds anance many relief operations
following relatively small disasters
in which no speeiSI appeal is made.