What the Local Red Cross Did During the Epidemic

• Nashville Red Cross made various types of hospital garments and surgical dressings• Mrs. R. H. Lacey, chairman of Nursing Service Committee reports that a nursing registration office was opened Oct 7, and remained open every day until 9:30 pm or later• Nurses aided physicians and families who called, and were assigned to hospitals and local universities and institutions• Nurses were placed with 131 families• Red Cross accepted donations of money and materials for distribution• Emergency kitchen was organized which fed an average of 121 families daily• Mrs. Cheek offers report on Motor Corps with listing of organizations served and the hours and mileage devoted to each of them• Motor Corps transported medical personnel, the ill, food, and supplies• A letter reprinted in the article outlines how the emergency kitchen was runNewspaper article