and gave them shelter... As people waded out of their homes or stepped out of rescue boats, you offered them shelter in schools, churches, city auditoriums, and tent cities. In Manhattan, where mud and water reached a depth of 6 feet in the downtown section, 1,500 flood victims came to the field house of Kansas State College. They brought more than 100 pets along to the veterinary clinic to be cared for until the waters receded. Meals were served at the college cafeteria. Topeka opened its auditorium and some 15 schools and churches as floodwaters crumbled the levees protecting North Topeka and left 20,000 homeless. In the Greater Kansas City area 26 Red Cross shelters provided beds, meals, clothing, and medical care after water 15 to 30 feet deep surged across homes and industries. In Lawrence, Marion, Ottawa, Miami, Cedar City, Alton, St. Louis, and other towns, Red Cross set up 85 shelters for the care of 14,200 flood victims during the emergency. Shelters were miniature communities that offered meals, sleeping facilities, recreation, baby sitters, services of doctors and nurses, medicine, first aid, and counseling day and night. Every family having disaster-caused needs that couldn't be met unaided was encouraged to apply to the Red Cross for assistance. More than 26,000 of the 52,275 families who suffered loss registered. Trained caseworkers talked with the families and visited their homes or the remains of their homes as the water went down. Doctors and nurses from medical societies, health departments, and nurses associations served voluntarily during the emergency and, in some areas, long after. Each shelter pro¬vided a medical aid station, and most of them had a supply room complete with disposable diapers for the hundreds of babies in the larger shelters. Volunteer nurse's aides as- Nurses from health departments, hospitals, and doctors' offices worked around the clock to assist Red Cross nurses in caring for people in 85 shelters. sisted with immunizations by health depart¬ment doctors, setting up isolation wards, and giving special care to children, the aged, and the crippled. The seriously ill and injured who came to the shelters were taken to local hospitals and cared for at Red Cross expense. Patients who were released from hospitals after the flood were visited in their homes or temporary living quarters. Retired nurses volunteered to supervise baby formulas; nurses turned housewives worked every day. Student and hospital nurses served full shifts after their regular hours were over. Everywhere volunteers did a thousand jobs to comfort and aid the flood victims. You provided medicine, hospitalization, and first aid in shelters for all refugees who were ill or injured. Doctors and nurses served voluntarily during the emergency that lasted for more than two weeks. You had formulas and special food ready for hundreds of babies in the shelters. Almost a half million dis¬posable diapers were given mothers to ease laundry problems. Nurses supervised the formula making.