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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 SAFETY SERVICES In addition, instruction in swimming and life- saving at bathing places throughout the nation reached an all-time high, with 789,000 certifi¬cates issued. Swimming for the physically handicapped was expanded through increased cooperation between Red Cross chapters and associations for the blind and handicapped and Veterans Administration hospitals. To aid chapters in such programs, Safety Services instructors were trained in 36 Red Cross aquatic and small craft schools. Operators of Red Cross highway first aid stations, detachments, mobile units, and special facilities gave first aid to 58,200 injured persons. NURSING SERVICES A LITTLE OVER a year ago Red Cross Nursing Services launched the biggest peacetime expan¬sion program in its recent history. Today that program has boosted Nursing Services to their top peak of activity since World War II. And those lines on the statistics charts still soar. A total of 269,325 certificates were given to persons completing courses in Red Cross home nursing last year, a 50 percent increase over the previous year. Persons completing nurse's aide courses totaled 5,995, as compared with 1,341 the year before. And the number of nurse's aide instructors authorized to teach reached 880, eight times as many as in 1950. There was also a 170 percent increase in instructor-trainers, which means that Red Cross is prepared to train many more people in home nursing this coming year. 16 NURSING SERVICES What's the purpose of all this expansion? It's two-fold. First, the federal government called on the Red Cross to step up its nursing program sharply as a civil defense measure. Second, to help offset the growing shortage of nurses, it is necessary that homemakers learn nursing skills so that they can take care of their own families. It is already frequently difficult to obtain nurs¬ing services on short notice. And it doesn't take a lot of imagination to picture how scarce nurses would be in an area where an atom bomb hit. To keep informed of latest developments in treatment of atomic bomb injuries, the Red Cross included special supplementary material in its home nursing courses. A principal part of the day-in and day-out nursing program is maintaining a reservoir of professional nurses. Last year an average of 5,740 nurses each month volunteered service to Red Cross chapters. They served as instructors, as¬sisted in disasters and epidemics, helped in im¬munization programs, served at first aid stations during parades and fairs, assisted civil defense officials in making surveys, and in countless other 17 |
