The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

December, 1951 The Health Bulletin 131. To formulate a program for nursesin Civil Defense that is coordinatedwith medical and allied services.2. To plan for the instruction ofnurses to carry out the program.3. To secure from the twenty-twodistricts a complete roster ofnurses, both active and inactive.4. To stimulate the recruitment ofinactive nurses and arrange for refreshercourses for them.5. Recruitment of nurses for Militarynursing needs.Civil Defense is here to stay!Without Civil Defense our State andNation would be helpless should warcome.NUTRITION AND FOOD IN THE CIVILDEFENSE PROGRAM*Bertlyn BosleyChief, Nutrition SectionN. C. State Board of HealthNutrition services are defined in theUnited States Civil Defense Manualand in the Health Services and SpecialWeapons Defense Manual as being "responsiblefor planning emergency dietsand food priority systems. These dietsand food priority systems would be visedas guides for that branch of the welfareservice responsible for supply foodin an emergency period, following acivilian wartime disaster. Milk rationingwould be the most urgent consideration.""The duty of the nutrition servicesis to recommend types and amounts offood whch should be available foremergency feeding of the general populationand of special groups such asinfants, children, pregnant women, theaged and patients with illnesses requiringspecial diets. The nutrition servicewould also recommend emergency dietsfor essential Civil Defense workers."The Manual suggests further thatthe type of food served provide 2,000 to2,200 calories a day, that it "be designedto allay himger and maintain morals,that it be cheap, easy to prepare, of thekind customarily eaten by the populationand that at least one food beserved hot.These general instructions providedthe basis for the formation of a Foodand Nutrition Advisory Committee ofthe State Civil Defense Program withthe approval of the State Civil DefenseDirector.There are many groups In NorthCarolina that can contribute to nutritionand particularly to food service.The Advisory Committee was formedto permit all such organized groups interestedin Nutrition and Food to plantogether for this phase of the Civil DefenseProgram. The Committee consistschiefly of state associations, witha few exceptions. These exceptions aremade to include persons who couldprovide valuable assistance but whomight not be members of a state associationallied with food interests. Representativesappointed from the followingstate associations and agenciesare members of the Advisory Committee:Home Economics AssociationHospital AssociationHotel AssociationDietetic AssociationRestaurant AssociationSchool Food Service AssociationState Home Demonstration ServiceState Board of WelfareState Board of HealthThe American Red CrossPresented at the North CarolinaPublic Health Association Meeting onSeptember 13, 1951.