Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1920 — RED CROSS ANNOUNCEMENT [ARTICLE]

RED CROSS ANNOUNCEMENT

The Rensselaer chapter of the American Red Cross will offer a course of instruction in home hygiene and care of the sick beginning about January first. This course consists of fifteen lessons and will be given once or twice a week to suit the convenience of the most people. It Is a recognized tact that the prevention of contagious disease and the responsibility of the maintenance of civilian health must be borne in the future more and more by the women in the home, and it has been only too evident in the recent influenza epidemics that the majority of women are not adequately prepared to care for their families in the absence of professional care. This course In home hygiene and care of the sick is Intended to give instruction in elementary procedure so that the women may not only be better prepared to care for members of their families during sickness, but to give instruction in the prevention of contagious diseases and minor illnesses. The course Is open to women and girls over sixteen years of age and the only requirements are that the students be members of the Red Cross and that each one buy her own text book, which is sixty cents. It is the purpose of the chapter to organize classes lb various parts of the county, and any community desiring to do so may have a class If ten women enroll. Further information may be had by writing or calling the Red Cross office, Rensselaer, Indiana.