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These things, though they seem small in themselves, as your experience will doubtless demonstrate, are of such importance that I cannot place too much weight upon them; and I think that a very early and close study of these questions will assist you to a material extent in meeting the problems that will confront you, and enable you to overcome many of your difficulties.”

434MISS RUTH EMERSON, of the American Red Cross, taking Mr. Pearson’s place on the program, stated that it was because the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service turned to the Red Cross that they came into being in this particular connection.

She stated that certain fundamental principles had been written down between the Public Health Service and the Red Cross, which had been abided by, and that it had been a great problem which was taken up with the Commanding Officer to keep out the things that were undesirable and to bring to each hospital the best things for that hospital, not only for the patients but for the personnel. She stated further that on the information side the Red Cross had been a great aid in bringing to the patients knowledge about various government regulations, but that now as more and more attempts are made by the various departments to get this information to the man the need for the Red Cross in this regard becomes less. Another important function of the social service worker is to find out the home conditions to which a man with tuberculosis is going when discharged from the hospital.

CAPT. BLACKWOOD: stated that as the hour was late he moved that the discussion of this important subject be postponed until tomorrow morning.

The motion was carried and the meeting adjourned at 4:45 P.M.

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