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From Red Cross
Courier.
January 7, 1922
MISS DOUGLAS LEAVES
AFTER 4-YEAR SERVICE
Mrs. Baker Succeeds Her
As Home Hygiene
Director.
Miss Harriette Sheldon Douglas,
for four years a member of the
National Headquarters staff, has
resigned her post as Director of
Instruction in Home Hygiene and
Care of the Sick. She will be
succeeded by Mrs. Isabelle Wilbur
Baker, of Worcester, Mass., who
comes New England to of where from Instruc- she the
Washington
Division
has served as Director
tion in Home Hygiene and Care
of the Sick.
Douglas, a graduate of
entered Roosevelt Miss upon Hospital, New Cross York, work
her Red
in Washington in December, 1917.
She was appointed director of the
of Nurse's Aides in Jan-
uary, until Bureau July 1918, that when capacity she
serving in
of that year
became Elementary Care of the Sick, succeeding and Bureau Home Miss of
Director of the
Hygiene
Helen Scott Hay. Upon the re-
organization of the departments of
National Headquarters in March,
1921, Miss Douglas was appointed .
to the position from which she
has just resigned.
Under Miss Douglas' adminis-
tration, Instruction in Home
31,188, grown Hygiene rapidly. given of the certificates Sick total has of
and Care
From a
who were
in for 1917, completing aggregate this valuable number of
course
the
such certificates awarded more
than doubled in I92I when 73,592
were awarded. Thousands of
others have taken instruction in
the subject who did not compete
for the certificate.
Home Hygiene and Care of the
Sick courses have been given in
every type of school, in girls'
camps, in industrial plants, in uni-
versities and in Americanization
centers. Even deaf mutes and the
blind have profited by the instruc-
tion.
The popularity the course en-
joys internationally is shown by
the fact that the text book has
been translated in whole or in
part into five languages, Russian,
Korean, Polish, Japanese and
Cr ho-Slovak.
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