The Amazing Women Who Tend the Sick, 1918

“The Amazing Women Who Tend the Sick,” from The Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C., October 25, 1918

There has been some comment as to the work of the Red Cross during the influenza epidemic. Every case that has been reported by physicians, relatives or friends has been attended to by the women who have so gallantly thrown aside fear and consideration for self and gone forth to help the suffering as much as possible.

The doctors advised the workers not to nurse the sick as it would tend to spread the disease by contact and carrying into homes where every member of the family was helping the suffering. They have administered every comfort possible and helped in every way the physicians have advised.

The work of the Red Cross is to help those who cannot help themselves and naturally the poor who have more needs because of their few opportunities get the largest consideration, many families have been found in which there were no members able to wait upon themselves to say nothing about ministering to others. In such cases, wealth is without value and the Red Cross aids to the best of its ability.