New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-22
GREAT CALL FOR IMMUNES.
THE WAR DEPARTMENT ASKS FOR HELP
IN CARING FOR FEVER PATIENTS.
THE TRAINED NURSE MAINTENANCE AUXILIARY
HEARS IMPORTANT LETTERS READ AT
-rrt- rvFCr-TrVF MEETING.
ONLY

HEARS IMPORTANT LETTERS READ AT
THE EXECUTIVE MEETING.
well-attended meeting Of the associate mem
bers Of the Auxiliary for the Maintenance OF
Trained Nurses preceded by meeting Of the
rxecutive Committee was held at the home of Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid. No 46 Madison-ave.. at 2SO
O'clock Yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Winthrop Cow
din presided Those present were Mrs. w. E.
Strong Mrs Reid. Mrs. G. F shrady jr. Mrs W.
Lanman Bull and Mrs. Marion Story
The following letters from the Surgeon-General OF
the Army read:
War Department. surgeon-Generars once.
Washington. D. c.. July II:
Mrs. Whiteaw Reid No Al Madison-ave'' New
Dear Gr" Madam: I take pleasure in confirming ty
letter the arrangements made at our ih'erVe" III
Yew-York the 18th inst.
l am quite willing 70 employ female nurses rseS
v,uched for nv Yourself as secretary OF the Red
C,oss Society for the Maintenance of Trained
Nurses. I had previously made satisfactory ar ar
r1rgements for the employment Of trained nurses
through committee Of the Daughters OF me
merean Revolution As sqd TO- you in our Il, inter- ter
general hospitals. and expect 10 make use OF
heir services to such an xS a o senn 70 eG
lurses with troops in the field or to camps OF IN
msly sick from our field hospitals TO the gen
rai hospitals as soon as practicable, ana we Wlsl
are OF the sick in the division field hospitals and
n camps of instruction. so that they may be fuy
prepared to perform the same duties when NE
roops are engaged in active operations. Among
hese privates Of the Hospital Corps VINO con,, ,i
ute the Red Cross organization Of the regular Mill
E service ana who dr2 are re no, gonna IN
We have many medical students ana even graduates
m medicine 49,
inc the female nurses to Cuba. In view of the out
break of yellow fever at Santiago, and am now
seriing immune nurses both male and female Tor
duy at the yellow fever hospitals.
n accordance with our agreement. you are au-
yofrself. to the Letter Hospital at Camp Thomas
Georgia: ten TO the United States General Hosp-
LAT at Fort Wadsworth New-YoTk the understand
ing being that those at Fort Monroe and at f2 1
WadswOrth shall be boarded and lodged outsoe the
hospital ...... a,.oo.o,,. .or ,o,,r aorres, o.
forts in behalf Of our sick and wounded soMers'
d" very ''"'' GEORGE NJ sTERNBBRG.
Surgeon General, United States Army.
War Department, surgeon-Generars Office.
Washington. July 90 1898.
Mrs whitelaw Reid, No. i5l Madison-ave' New
Dear Madam: have just received the following
.Charleston s. c. July 20. 1895
"The surgeon-General. United States Army WASH
dered to this station for duty in St Francis xavier
and City hospitals. Impossible for hospitals 10 oo-
''''' '1i'''''''' '''''' CLAYTON PARKHIIL;
major and Chief Surgeon. L. > W,
"Chef Surgeon First Division, First Corps pr 3. 4
II you fit to FIJI this requisiton shall De siau
10 nave you 90 So C GEoR RSE H. Ms sTERNBERG.
Surgeon General. United States Army.
Mrs Reid and Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin as q
Committee Of Conference. reported having nan
interviews with President Mckinley. the secretary
Of War and the Surgeon-Generals Of both the Army
and The Navy Departments They were assured
that the aid they offered would be cordially well
coined.
In response 10 the letters from the Surgeon-Gen-
eral and TO subsequent dispatches II was reported
mat three Mills Training School male nurses had
been sent Wednesday morning 10 the Marine Hos
pita Clifton, Staten Island. and that six male
nurses. graduated from the same traning-school
had been sent Wednesday evening to Portsmouth
y H.. to help with the care o. the Spanish prison
ers During the meeting ,ther telegram came
ASKING mat four trained be sent Immediately
10 the hospital at Fort WaoswOrth. Staten Island
'or serious typhoid fever Two nurses were
sent Immediately ir response TO this. and two more
VIII 90 20 the hospital tomorrow morning. Durinl
The discussion it was mentioned that before these
last nurses were started the auxiliary had already
put in the field eighty-eight nurses. male and fe
male, Of whom more tn n one-haf are now in Cuba
An male nurses now sent out nave ilrst 10 submit
heir credentials and record of professional service
70 Drs. Carpenter and Hubbard, at their office al
the Aston. Thirty-ei, hth-st and MadiSOn-aVe. be
lore being accepted the Committee Trained
Nurses. The female nurses will be selected by thc
Committee on Trained Nurses, Mrs. Reid Mrs
W. Lanman Bull and Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin
from the lists supplied by the Red Cross and other
hospitals