During the past year an average, each month, of 425 Red
Cross public health nurses assisted with the care of the civil-
ian population. Forty-five of that number served in camp
communities on an emergency and supplementary basis,
providing bedside nursing, prenatal, maternity, and infant
care for the wives of soldiers and sailors.

HOME NURSING

Face to face with the shortage of doctors and nurses, and
moved by the instinct to protect their homes, women and
girls on a mass scale qualified for Red Cross Home Nursing
certificates after a course of study. Taught by many thou-
sands of graduate nurses and home economists, the students
learned to give simple bedside care to sick loved ones, and
to promote family health through prevention of illness, and
proper sanitation and food. This informal home guard
also has encouraged community health and helped protect
the nation against the threats of wartime epidemics.

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