Certificates were distributed Wednesday to 10 graduates of a medical self-help course sponsored by the Louisiana state board of health, the Orleans Parish Medical Society and the New Orleans chapter of the American Red Cross.
The eight-week course, given in the offices of the local Red Cross chapter, were conducted under the direction of the Louisiana Civil Defense organization and the Public Health Service of the United States department of health, education and welfare.
The local class, which was supervised by Mrs. J. B. Hick-: ey, director of the Red Cross' chapter's nursing services, was one of several pilot studies conducted across the nation by the health, education and welfare department concerning the feasibility of giving similar classes To various medical, health, civil defense and education organizations.
The overall program will serve the function of teaching American families how to survive a national emergency and how to meet their own health needs if deprived of a physician's services.
The course consists of instruction on such subjects as, radioactive fallout and shelter, hygiene, sanitation, vermin control, water and food, artificial respiration, bleeding and bandaging, fractures and splinting, burns and shocks, and infant and child care.
Receiving certificates Wednesday afternoon at the Red Cross offices were Mrs. Dorothy Tal» bot of the Louisiana State university nursing department; Mrs. Emerald Baudier, Mrs. Ol|ga Lawson, Mrs. Freda Hildebrand, Mrs. Camille Lang and Mrs. Zola M. Barras, Red Cross workers; Mrs. Mildred Zelden, representing Parent-Teacher Associations; Robert Memory, director of training for civil defense in New Orleans; Mrs. Peggy Richards, educational projects officer for state civil defense; and Elliott G. Conkling, chief of the New Orleans auxililary fire department.
The certificates were signed! by Dr. Adolph A. Flores of the parish medical -.society, who served as medical sponsor for the class. PHOTO: SOME OF THE GRADUATES of a medical self-help course sponsored by the Louisiana state board of health, the Orleans Parish Medical Society and the New Orleans chapter of the American Red Cross, admire their certificates Wednesday. They are (from left) Mrs. Peggy Richards, Mrs. Dorothy Talbot and Mrs. J. B. Hickey, who supervised the course.
