4 per 1,000; Baltimore with 6.7 per 1,000
showed the next greatest mortality.
The record of the Red Cross in this epidemic was one of instant service.
Hundreds of thousands of masks were made in Red Cross workrooms, and
these were worn by nurses and by members of families in afflicted homes.
On May 1, 1917, just before the appointment of the War Council, the
American Red Cross had 486,194 members working through 562 chapters. On
July 31, 1918, the organization numbered 20,648,103 annual members,
besides 8,000,000 members of the Junior Red Cross--a total enrollment of
over one-fourth the population of the United States. These members
carried on their Red Cross work through 3,854 chapters, which again
divided themselves into some 30,000 branches and auxiliaries.
The total actual collections from the first war fund amounted to more
than $115,000,000. The subscriptions to the second war fund amounted to
upward of $176,000,000. From membership dues the collections
approximated $24,500,000.
The Home Service of the Red Cross with its more than 40,000 workers,
extended its ministrations of sympathy and counsel each month to upward
of 100,000 families left behind by soldiers at the front.
Supplementing, but not duplicating, the work of the American Red Cross,
were the services of the Y.
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