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The Weber County Chapter of the Red Cross began in December 1915 when a small group of individuals gathered to begin organizing a chapter of the Red Cross. In 1962, the name was changed to the Bonneville chapter, and in 1969, the chapter merged with other chapters in Northern Utah to become the Northern Utah Chapter, with its headquarters located in Ogden, Utah. The scrapbooks range from 1940 to 2003 and highlight some of the important work of the Red Cross. The books include photographs, newspaper clippings, and other materials. |
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Show SERVICES TO VETERANS The Red Cross has approximately 550 stationed in 84 Veterans Administration offices. Working closely with chapter Home Service staffs, they assisted in 1,151,00 claims cases for veterans. Their aid included the review and presentation of claims and appeals made by veterans and their dependents to the Veterans Administration. More than 1,250,000 veterans and their dependents have authorized the Red Cross to represent them in this way. In Veterans Administration hospitals – once considered remote islands of suffering by communities – a decided reversal of attitude has occurred since World War II. Now the community is being brought to hospitalized veterans through volunteers. Doctors now look to volunteers for help in many phases of the treatment process. More than 400 chapters are providing VA hospitals with thousands of trained volunteers whose service is coordinated by full-time Red cross staff assigned to the hospitals. Those volunteers, working with those of other organizations, include members of Volunteer Services, Safety Services, Junior Red Cross and College Activities: During the 1948-49 fiscal year: Cases of veterans and their dependents assisted by chapter Home Service totaled 1,315,00; veterans and their dependents received financial assistance totally $3,431,000. Veterans’ claims case handled by Veterans Claims Liaison Service numbered 1,151,000. A monthly average of approximately 20,000 chapter volunteers gave a yearly total of 1,902,000 hours of service in Veterans Administration hospitals. 12 National Blood Program One of the outstanding health programs of the century, the Red Cross National Blood Program in its first 2 years of operation is already supplying blood and blood derivatives to hospitals and clinics in approximately half the states of the nation. Through more than 30 regional programs “today’s most amazing medicine,” whole blood, has been made available to thousands of patients suffering from injury or disease. The Red Cross National Blood Program does more than that. Through distribution of blood derivatives, thousands of children have benefited from injections of immune serum globulin during measles epidemics; other patients suffering from shock, certain chronic circulatory ailments, and kidney diseases have helped by serum albumin; still others have been aided by fibrinogen, thrombin, antihemophilic globulin, as well as red cells and plasma. One of the most important Red Cross contributions is a continuing supply of blood for research, which through each succeed year, has revealed more and more uses for blood and its products. Building toward the ultimate goal of supply enough blood and its derivatives for all who may need them, the Red Cross program has made steady progress. During the fiscal year 1948-49, 19 new regional centers were opened. An additional 312 chapters became participants, and 836 more hospitals, as well as 36 clinics, were supplied with blood. During the current fiscal year, 13 more are planned. All center operations 13 |
