American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick

DELANO
BY JANE A. DELANO, R. N. Chairman of the National Committee, Red Cross Nursing Service; Director, Department of Nursing, American Red Cross; Late Superintendent of the Nurse Corps, U. S. A.; of the Training Schools for Nurses, Bellevue Hospital, New York City; and of the Training School for Nurses, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
REVISED AND REWRITTEN BY ANNE HERVEY STRONG, R. N. Professor of Public Health Nursing, Simmons College, Boston
This is the Second Edition of the American Red Cross Text-book in Elementary Hygiene and Home Care of the Sick by Jane A. Delano and Isabel McIsaac.
PREPARED FOR AND ENDORSED BY THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
PHILADELPHIA P. BLAKISTON'S SON & CO. 1012 WALNUT STREET
Copyright, 1918, by American Red Cross
THE MAPLE PRESS YORK PA

To the woman who wishes to protect her family from preventable diseases and is anxious to fit herself in the absence of a trained nurse to give intelligent care to those who are sick, this revision of the Red Cross text-book on Elementary Hygiene and Home Care of the Sick is particularly directed. It should appeal to men and to women who are interested in maintaining the health of their neighborhoods and communities and in affording effective coöperation to the public health authorities. To teachers wishing to impart protective health information to high school pupils, the book also should be useful as a class text as well as a guide.
The war, which has caused the withdrawal from private practice of thousands of physicians and graduate nurses, makes it peculiarly important to the nation for every adult to have sound knowledge as to how to prevent contagion and epidemics, especially by precautionary attention to home and local sanitation. With nurses becoming more difficult to secure, the safety of the family demands that some member in each household know enough about elementary nursing to make a patient comfortable and to carry out accurately the instructions of the physician.