TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 1941 BED CROSS OF COUNTY SIGHS MORE NURSES Fifteen Ready for Service If Crisis Arises In This Area Disasters and epidemics frequent¬ly tax the regular nursing facilities of a community beyond their strength, and war brings terrible suffering that may in a measure be alleviated by proper nursing serv-ice. From these two facts has arisen the service which made the name of the American Red Cross famous throughout the world long before the public generally became ac¬quainted with the manifold activi¬ties of the organization. The Red Cross nursing service in¬cludes all enrolled Red Cross nurses—that large group of nurses who are engaged in various types of nursing throughout the country and who have indicated their will-ingness to serve under the Red Cross if needed, and the relatively small group who are regularly em-ployed by the Red Cross as field and headquarters staffs, or by the chapters as public health " nurses and instructors of home hygiene and care of the sick. It includes also the local and state committees on Red Cross nursing service, which as volunteers serve such an important part both in enrolling and in supplying nurses for Red Cross activities. There are in general three types of service carried on by the Red Cross nursing service. There are the emergency nurses, the instruc-tors and the small number em¬ployed as public health nurses. Not every disaster requires the services of nurses, but in some dis-asters health problems are of im-mediate and major importance. In¬juries, exposure, strain, communic- able diseases, births, deaths, must be cared for the health of moth¬ers, children, old people must be safeguarded. Nurses are needed to staff emergency hospitals, to assist in medical stations and to aid in public health programs. It is then that there is need for temporary nursing service supple¬mental to that of the community. It is then that the Red Cross re-sponds. The Red Cross nursing service maintains a roll of qualified nurses, who have signified their willing-ness to serve under the Red Cross when emergencies arise. The Red Cross was brought into existence to alleviate the war-time-pain of fighters and injured non- combatants. This is the major re-sponsibility of the organization, although its other services have grown to mammoth proportions, A proclamation of the United States' president in 1911 designated the Red Cross as the only volunteer agency permitted to render aid to; the U. S. land and naval forces in' As Weber Red Cross Enlists Nurses for Emergency ENROLLED . . . Nurse Lucille Taylor is shown above being enrolled in the American Red Cross nurs¬ing service by the local nursing committee of Weber county chapter. Mrs. L. S. Merrill, Mrs. Katherine Echenbrecht and Mrs. Lucille Brown (left to right) comprise the nursing service committee. When a local disaster occurs and nurses are needed for immediate duty, they are reached through the' local committee on Red Cross nurs-ing service. That committee in Weber county chapter is comprised of Mrs. L. S. Merrill, Mrs. Kather-ine Echenbrecht and Mrs. Lucille Brown, chairman. It is a state committee subsidiary. It is essential that every nurse immediately report any change in address or telephone number so that she may be reached upon an instant's notice. Must Be Graduate The nurse who enrolls must be a graduate of an approved nursing school and preparation in the nurs-ing care of communicable diseases is highly desirable. Certain hos¬pital experience may be replaced with certain postgraduate study, but this is determined in individual cases by the service. Citizenship is another require¬ment. The applicant must be at least 21 and not over 40 years of age, single, widowed or divorced, and she must be affiliated with the American Nurses' association. She must also meet physical require¬ments and be immunized against typhoid, paratyphoid, diphtheria and smallpox, She must also be endorsed by the school from which she graduated. Ogden's nursing service has about 15 trained-to-the-minute women registered for immediate duty if needed, either as army or navy nurses or at home or in the vicin¬ity in case of catastrophe. Others who might want to register may do so by contacting any of the