Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 50, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 November 1939 — ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE MEETS XAVIER SUNDAY AFTERNOON [ARTICLE]

ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE MEETS XAVIER SUNDAY AFTERNOON

There’s going to be plenty oX. action when Xavier of Cincinnati, meets St. Joe College Sunday afternoon on the Pumas’ gridiron at Rensselaer. Xavier, who plays Such

regularly engaged in visiting the sick, aiding physicians in examining school children, conducting inoculation pro grams to stamp jout contagious Illness, launching trial nursing services in out-of-the-way communities, and carrying on important health education work to Qualify family groups to care for sickness at homeAll nurses who are needed for Red ! Cross nursing activities are drawn from the Red Cross reserve of qualified nurses, Miss Beard said. Last year Red Cross public health nurses made more than one million visits on behalf of the sick and gave skilled care to 272,729 persons. Last year, in schools and clinics, nurses cooperated with physicians in examining 595,575 children, and aided in the task of correcting defects. Children examined were enrolled for the most part in rural schools where this type of preventive service is rare. There are 655 Red Cross nurses engaged In this work in 477 communities. In the field of health education. Red Cross nurses'have instructed more than 1,000,000 family members since 1914 in how to care for the sick at home and have set new standards of hygiene for the family. Last year the Nursing Service held 4,505 classes in home hygiene and care of the sick and awarded certificates to 61,296 persons who passed examinations on the subjects taught. “Because the nucleus of all Red - Cross nursing activity is our nurses' reserve, it is a source of great satisfaction that each month the list of applicants Miss Beard said. This service to the public is supported by the men and women who join as members of the Red Cross, through their local Chapters, during the Roll Call, November 11 to 30. teams as Kentucky, Tennessee and St. Mary’s, is the most important team St. Joe has ever faced. Every business man and every farmer should have printed stationery to use -n writing orders and for other correspondence. The cost is low\ Ask us.—The Post.