ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the extremely valuable work done by National Red Cross organisations, both before and since the Great War. The main conception for the proposed organisation was that in the maintenance of health on a national scale there was scope in each country for devoted Red Cross work and support, which would be not less valuable than work to reduce physical suffering during war. The main proposal of an international Conference was the establishment of an International Health Bureau, which would focus information and give guidance respecting various branches of public health administration in each country. The organisation was to be supported by subscriptions from national societies. It should be added that the efforts in America to incorporate direct health work under the aegis of the American Red Cross were gradually dropped, and a few years later their direct health programme almost entirely ceased.
