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

Author: Jane A. Delano
Anne Hervey Strong
American Red Cross

Release Date: May 4, 2010 [EBook #32250]

Language: English

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AMERICAN RED CROSS TEXT-BOOK

ON

HOME CARE OF THE SICK

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DELANO

AMERICAN RED CROSS

TEXT-BOOK

ON

HOME HYGIENE

AND

CARE OF THE SICK

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

PREFACE

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 cooperation to the public health
authorities. To teachers