formed their own groups to donate blood. Regularity of
donation, high-lighted by the formation of Gallon Clubs,
contributed heavily to the final score.

During the year, four new blood donor centers were
added to those located in the other 31 cities which are near
enough to laboratories for the processing to begin within
the required 24-hour time limit. The number of mobile
units increased from 39 to 63, extending the privilege of
giving to hundreds of additional cities and towns.

THAT MEN MAY LIVE, gga
OT since the first Red Cross workers ‘"f

N succored the wounded on the battle-

field itself, in the days when the organiza-

tion was first founded in 1864, have mili-

tary nurses been so greatly needed as today.

The recruitment and selection of nurses for the Army
and Navy Nurse Corps is a Red Cross function.

Response to American Red Cross appeals for nurses made
through official recruiting stations in large chapters across
the nation met a need unparalleled in history. ,

The problem—in the acute manpower sphere—was com:
plicated by the necessity to interrupt long-established rela-
tionships of nurses as members of hospital organizations or
other integral parts of the community’s health machinery.
This problem was eased by general recognition of army and
navy needs as a master priority. This is a self-imposed pri-
ority, for the nurses voluntarily enrolled in the Red Cross
War Reserve from which the Army and Navy Nurse Corps
filled their requirements month by month.

A war-born Red Cross Student Reserve enrolled seniors
in schools of nursing for military duty after graduation.

Back of the War Reserve were the First and Second Re-
serves of nurses. These served as called upon by the Red
Cross in case of disaster and epidemics, as instructors of
home nursing and volunteer nurse’s aides and for nonmili-
tary duty outside the country. Many of these were nurses
who came from retirement for full- or part-time duty to
help in the nursing crisis.

  

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