The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-11-04
RED CROSS HAS INCREASED ITS
 SCOPE OF WORK
Annual Report Shows Ma terial Increase in Facili-
 ties for Giving Aid

Cross has been materially enlarged during the past year, according to the annual report of that great or ganization, recently made public from national headquarters at Washington, D. O., an abstract of which has just been received by the local Chapter. The Thirteenth An nual Roll Call of the organization will open here next Monday and ex- tend until Thanksgiving.
 The local Chapters canvass for memberships will be made under the direction of Capt. John New marker. He will appoint commit- tees for Juneau and other com munities included in the Chapter jurisdiction.
 Two Notable Increases
 A material increase in the public health and life saving activities of the Red Cross is recorded in the annual report. The enrolment of nurses by the Red Cross now num- bers 49,153. In the past year 1851 nurses also were engaged in giving instruction courses in home hy- giene and care of the sick. Nutri- tionists conducted 4,739 classes. The home hygiene instructors gave 42,- 234 certificates to adults and mi nors, making total of 543,337 who have graduated since 1914.
 The life saving and first aid courses, which were inaugurated in 1910, reached a greater number of persons than in any former year, and life savers entitled to wear the insigna of the Red Cross, showing that they were trained in resuscita- tion and other means of life sav- ing, now number 220, 0,404. First aid advanced courses have graduated 350, 0,491.
 One of the purposes of these courses is to teach instructors so that they may in turn give classes Nursing Service Made Permanent
 The vital need in at least 45 per cent of the counties of the United States for public health work has caused a change in Red Cross pol icy. Formerly Red Cross public health nursing was for demonstra- tion purposes, to interest munich palities or communities in providing this care for citizens.
 During the past year, however the Red Cross public health nursing service has been organized to re- main permanently in this field, with particular attention to extending nursing care in rural communities
 Vice President James L. Fieser stated that surveys show approxi- mately 45 per cent of all counties have no hospital for general com munity use that the supply of doc tors is steadily decreasing in rural areas, and that there are probably at least 1000 counties without any 
 public health nursing.
 Red Cross chapters now have 76t public health nurses in active ser vice, and during the past year the national organization and it's chap ters expended $747,477 for this work
 In 413 counties the Red Cross is in partnership with the public au- thirities in the nursing service, and the organization hopes to increase materially the itinerant, or part time, nursing service in the 500 or more counties where resources o1 the chapter or the authorities dc not permit engaging nurse on a yearly basis. This itinerant service proposes employment of nurse fol three or six months.
 Tells of Diphtheria War "School nursing on country wide basis still remains the primary activity in great majority of the Middle Western and Far Western States, while visiting nursing holds first place in the town services ir the Eastern States" MT. Fieser said Among the lesser activities, two stand out in particular: the slogan to free our children from diphtheris has been spread all over the natior by State health departments, ane many Red Cross nurses have hac much to do with the actual worl of getting the children immuned. l Another activity is the Summer roundup. Everywhere our nurse. have joined with the authorities ir making physically fit as many a. possible of the younger children be. fore their entry into school. A smal beginning has been, made in hourly | onI ,,,o +or,,;tx, ro,,,;oo I,xy z