Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1919 — NURSES FIGHT DISEASE [ARTICLE]

NURSES FIGHT DISEASE

RED Cross nurses discharged from overseas work are choosing public health nursing and positions as Instructors in home hygiene and dietetics as their peacetime occupation. “The germ army killed more Americans in the last four years than the German ermy,” is their slogan. Four have been assigned during the past month to public health service in the Lake Division. Fifty Red Cross nurses —instructors of classes for women and girts outside the nursing profession—are meeting in Cleveland September 18-20 to discuss means of teaching the general public how to avoid disease*.