American nurse an oracle in Albania. Albanian mother seeking advice at the Junior Red Cross of America children's clinic in Tirana and Miss Mabel Steel, of San Francisco, the chief nurse, making a blood test on the five months old infant. Due to a prolonged diet of rice and flour the child is a victim of malnutrition and in the advanced stages of anemia. Education that will equip native mothers with a knowledge of baby hygiene and feeding is the great cry of the hour in Albania as in other Balkan countries for with a threatened scourge of tuberculosis and wasting diseases the thousand of underfed and neglected children are said to be in great danger of succumbing almost 'en masse'

American health measures for Balkan babies. Miss Blanche Grundy of San Francisco, nurse in the Junior Red Cross of America Children's clinic at Elbasan with her interpreter and one of the many children who have undergone treatment there. Junior Red Cross propoganda in the cause of child welfare is slowly enlightening the fogged minds of native mothers in several of the Balkan countries on the subject of hygiene and home care of their babies and growing children

Albanian nurses trained by Americans. Head nurse, Miss Lucy Joachim (at right of picture) of New York City, and Miss Agnes Eubank, American Red Cross nurse to the Balkans from South Charleston, West Virginia, and four native Albanian nurses who are under their instruction in the Tirana, Albania hospital. Red Cross hospitals throughout the Balkan countries are tending to stimlate the medical and nursing professions. As in many other countries of Europe, where hospital relief work has been carried on extensively, the scientific surgical and general nurses of America have become the models for foreign women who see the possibilities of raising this profession in their countries to the American standard

American 'girl' on the job in Albania. In the course of a day Miss Agnes Drummond of Alton, Ill., (at the desk) member of the American Red Cross in charge of relief distribution in Scutari, Albania, considers the needs of scores of destitute and poverty stricken natives, many of them once prosperous or at least far from beggary. The picture shows a corner of one of the warehouses rooms and the shelves of American clothing contributed to the ragged, almost naked people by Red Cross Chapters in the United States. The mother and child have been aided

Companionship of Misery. At least these Albanian mothers are not alone in their heartaches; each can look at other mothers whose children are also sufferers. They believe devoutly in the power of the Junior Red Cross of America Baby Clinic some miracle to perform and for that reason they sit patiently long hours awaiting opportunity to see the doctor or nurse in charge. In this country the pennies and dimes of American school children not only assuage momentary anxiety and suffering; they are raising helpless mothers up out of a fog of ignorance of modern hygiene and child welfare

Albanians Wait Curiously For Medical Aid. Awaiting their turn at the Red Cross hospital-clinic in Tirana, Albania the strange people of the Balkin state exhibit a strange fear of what might be in store for them. They are unaccustomed to scientific care of the sick as it is known in the western world so the strange things that are accomplished by American doctors and nurses in alleviation of paid and in actual cures is to them the result of some supernatural influence. The combined efforts of the Junior Red Cross and the American Red Cross are aiming largely at the treatment of sick and neglected children. At present the death toll from tuberculosis and other wasting diseases grow larger every month

At a junior baby clinic in Albania. Mrs. Phoebe C. Steet, of Baltimore, MD., head of the Junior Red Cross of America child clinic in Elbasan, Albania, is about to treat one of the native gypsy children. He arrived at the clinic powdered and smeared with burned horn according to the custom of his people but will be seen bathed, powdered with talcum and put into fresh, clean clothing that American children have ready at all their clinics and orphanages for the helpless and naked who so frequently come swathed in filthy rags like this little fellow

American nurse an oracle in Albania. Albanian mother seeking advice at the Junior Red Cross of America children's clinic in Tirana and Miss Mabel Steel, of San Francisco, the chief nurse, making a blood test on the five months old infant. Due to a prolonged diet of rice and flour the child is a victim of malnutrition and in the advanced stages of anemia. Education that will equip native mothers with a knowledge of baby hygiene and feeding is the great cry of the hour in Albania as in other Balkan countries for with a threatened scourge of tuberculosis and wasting diseases the thousand of underfed and neglected children are said to be in great danger of succumbing almost 'en masse'

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Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office.
Data: Pacific Div. Junior Red Cross.Group title: Dispensary. Albania.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
Temp note: Batch 25

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