Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1919 — $270,000 NEEDED FOR INDIANA [ARTICLE]

$270,000 NEEDED FOR INDIANA

Plan Red Cross Campaign for 1920 —the Financial Slogan. A careful survey determines “that a Red Cross budget of at least $270,000 for Indiana is necessary to carry on the work successfully during the next year. This budget is several times larger than that of any previous year but even now far from being proportionately large to the cause in which the money 'will be spent. It is the plan to secure this budget by the very popular sale of Red- Cross Christmas Seals and Health Bonds. Therefore to the extent that anyone purchases seals or health bonds to that measure will the purchaser become a part to the great army that will compel tuberculosis to go. Every county will have a definite program based on the immediate need- But the one general slogan for the state is a community tuberculosis nurse in every county of Indiana fdr 1920. This nurse will be the center of all tuberculosis prevention and curative activity in the community, such as giving aid and direction to tuberculous persons, bringing about sanitary conditions which prevent infection and spread of disease, public health education, carrying on dhild health work in the school, including medical Inspection, correction of defects, nutrition for underweight children. It Is the intention to build a county tuberculosis hospital in Jasper county and it is hoped to sell enough bonds in thls campaign to build the first unit of same. . The funds with which to fight

tuberculosis are secured by the sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals and -Health Bonds Dec. 1 to 10.