Red Cross Wants 1,000 Nurses; Mother and Daughter Ill in Bed; Many Other Cases Cry for Help

• Red Cross is calling for 1,000 nurses in SF – trained and untrained, they just need the help• Local family stories used to appeal to women to volunteer• “The treatment for influenza is not difficult. Any woman with common sense can carry out the doctor’s orders. It doesn’t take expert nursing at all, and if it did, there are no expert nurses to be had…”Newspaper article1