The Omaha guide., 1946-03-30

cabbage, bread, cole slaw, and APP
pies. Some of the schools did not
serve milk because of lack of sto-
rage space or difficulty Of deliv-
cry. Mrs. Williams, however, said
that she was ahle to develop in
terest in milk drinkink and in the
use of evaporated milk.
HOME VISIT
Among her visits to a variety
of homes, comfortable as Well as
poor, was one to an isolated farm,
described as not unusual in it's
nutrition needs.
1t was necessary to park my car
at the end of the lane, the ruts
forbidding-and to proceed
on foot to a house that Seemed
held together by hope-hope that
it would not tumble in.
1t was not neccary to knock, as
five pairs of eyes had watched my
approach; the door was flung open
as l stepped gingerly on what was
supposed to be a porch. The baby
a too fat youngster of IL months
was on the floor of a room identi-
fled as a bedroom only by the fact
that it had a bed in one corner
as balance for the stove in an OPP
posite one. Otherwise, the room
was bare
There were IL heads besides
the father and mother, with three
absent ones, 2 children working
out, and a son in the Army. He
talked about the baby, what he
ate and how well he ate, because
1 could e that he was a Perfect
picture of under n~ourishment. He
didn't like oranges or tomatoe Jul
&c, and the mother saw no sense
in giving him cod liver OIL Two
sick children had always been
spindly and with good cause, for
one had had rheumatic fever, the
other a spot On her lung.
The only announcement Tfound
in the home was the Oldest dau-
gheter, who eyed me furtively and
called me the food lady who came
TO her school. The mother relaxed
then, and l saw a ray Of hope.
From the north area of PhiIa-
delphia where, she says 10000
Negroes are living, and a new
house hoT rot Nac~. built in so
years, :. Y - writes that
interest in nU-r tio-1 is gradually
growing Sc tcls Ct interviewing
a little old man, weighing 70 lbs.
who wouldn't eat. He had no one
to take care of his food needs, and
Mrs. Williams visited the restau-
rants in the vicinity to investigate
the price and quality of foods She
is preparing material concerning
minimum adequate meals served
IN restaurants in Negro areas
where families on relief, or on
marginal incomes, are living. This
material will be used to establish
standards for minimum food al
lowance o adults eating their
meals in restaurants or living on
exceptionally low incomes. She
gives an example of a man with
ulcers, who lives with his family
wife and IL children in 3 rooms.
Trying to make nutrition educa-
ton practical in situations of this
kind is n of her problems.
NEW HOME NURSING UNIT
Last month in Kansas City, 5
Negro practice classes were wen
taught by Red Cross Home Muir
sing instructors in Unit II, Mother
and Baby Care and amily Health,
which is in the process of being
perfected Suggestions from actu-
al class problems have been fol-
lowed by the master training SUI
pervsors at national headquarters
of the Red Cross.
Unit I in Home Nursing, the
Care of the Sick, is gaining thru
! out the country in the numbers Of
Negroes, both men and women.
who are attending classes. In the
city of Greenwich, Conn, recently
a group of men from the Crispus
Attacks Association received Ger
tficates for completing this unit
and requested a class for their
wives.
A course in home nursing for
colleges is to be ready for use
next fall, and it is expected that il,
Will be installed in a large number
of Negro colleges. A high school
course IS being widely used, and
effects are seen in community and
: standards of bedside care
sickness prevention.
( ;iDENTS ARE HEALTH
ARDS
The Red Cross program in acct
.ent prevention combats the fact
lat accidents present one of the
most serious hazards to the health
and safety of the American people
today
Taking the lives of nearly 100,
600 persons every year, accidents
rank fifth as a cause of death in
the United States. And among
persons from 1 to 10 Years Of age
accidents arethe chief cause OF
death.
The accident death rates are
somewhat higher among nonwhite
groups than among white, accor-
ding to recent statistics published