AMERICAN RED CROSS TEXT-BOOK
ON
HOME CARE OF THE SICK
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 familyfrom preventable diseases and is anxious to fitherself in the absence of a trained nurse to giveintelligent care to those who are sick, this revisionof the Red Cross text-book on Elementary Hygieneand Home Care of the Sick is particularly directed.It should appeal to men and to women who areinterested in maintaining the health of theirneighborhoods and communities and in affordingeffective coöperation to the public health authorities.To teachers wishing to impart protectivehealth information to high school pupils, the bookalso should be useful as a class text as well as aguide.
The war, which has caused the withdrawal fromprivate practice of thousands of physicians andgraduate nurses, makes it peculiarly important tothe nation for every adult to have sound knowledgeas to how to prevent contagion and epidemics,especially by precautionary attention to home andlocal sanitation. With nurses becoming moredifficult to secure, the safety of the family demandsthat some member in each household know enoughabout elementary nursing to make a patientcomfortable and to carry out accurately the instructionsof the physician.
[vi]The work of revision, based upon the latestknowledge of hygiene, sanitation and methods ofhome-nursing has been done by Miss Anne HerveyStrong, Professor of Public Health Nursing,Simmons College, under the personal direction ofthe author and the National Committee on RedCross Nursing Service. The material has beenpainstakingly read by Dr. H. W. Rucker and Dr.Taliaferro Cla