The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-20
A RED CROSS NURSE AT RAILROAD STATION.

marian organization in Germany. The
training of such men should be OF the
most practical nature, including the
transportation OF sick and wounded,
first aid dress, the art of working and
cooking, with special reference to diet
for the sick. An education of this kind
would be of the. greatest value and
profit to the pupils as we'll as to the
respective communities and would be
the means of furnishing desirable ma
terial for the hospital corps in case of
war and efficientsaid in case of acct
dents and national catastrophes neces-
stating a sudden call for competent
nurses.
WONDERFUL WORK OF SISTERS.
The Sisters of Charity stood in the
front rank of volunteer nurses in the
Spanish war. as well as in nearly all
of the great wars during the last ZOO
years. 1t is the oldest and best work
ing order in thea tholic church Tres
ident Mckinley became familiar with
their efficient and faithful services dur
ing the civil war and gladly accepted
the offer of the order to furnish nurses
made soon after the war broke out
All of the principal hospitals in charge
of the Sisters of Charity sent repre-
sentatives to the front. The first SIX
sisters were sent to the naval hospltal,
Portsmouth, Va, July 16. The whole
number of Sisters on duty Sept. a was
232. The annex and surgical wards and
operating tent at Montauk were eX-
clusively in charge of 100 members OF
the order. Their work in that great
camp was a source of gratlncatlon ana
admiration to the medical officers and
of all the visitors and relatives OF the
sick. Several Of these brave sisters
have gone to their final reward IN the
service of their country and others are
lying dangerously i'll in the different
hospitals.
MISSES WHEELER AND CHAMBER.
Among the distinguished lay nurses
special mention must be made OF MISS
Chanler of New York. l met Miss
Chanler in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where
she did most excellent service in the
military hospitals. Her numerous pa
tents will always remember with deep
est gratitude her arduous, unselt1sh
work. The Misses Wheeler daughters
of Major General Wheeler, accom-
panied their heroic father to Cuba,
nursed him when he was i'll and Ia
bored earnestly among the sick OF ms
command They continued their labor
of love at Camp Wikoff, where many a
sick soldier owed his restoration to
kitchens were established at Camp WI
koff under the supervision of Mrs. M.
H. Willard of New York, which proved
of the greatest benefit for the sick and
convalescent soldiers. l take the llp-
erty of quoting from letter recently
received from Mrs. Willard, dealing
with this subject:
SUCCESS OF DIET KITCHENS.
For six weeks / was at Montauk,
representing the Red Cross society,
which, together with the Massachusetts
Volunteer Aid association, established
diet kitchens in connection with the
general and division hospitals. On my
arrival at Camp Wikof | found the
kitchen department in a very serious
condition. The officers, doctors, nurses,
orderlies and employees, as we'll as the
patients, were procuring their food
from a small building, presided over
by an army cook, and everything, IN
and around the mess hail. was in a
dirty condition. Rice and oatmeal
were the principal diet for the sick,
and this was so often burned and badly
cooked that the patients were unable
to relish or retain it. The first dlet
kitchen was established Aug. 81, and
those at the three division hospitals
soon followed, and this, with one at the
detention hospital, made a system OF
. five kitchens, covering a radius OF three
miles, with a force of, fifteen cooks,
several dieticians, ten volunteers, and
twelve detailed men. These kitchens
supplied carefully and scientifically pre-
pared food for the sick and GONZALES
cent and the physicians and nurses
were able to procure for their patients
not only liquid diets, but light and
special diets as well. One of our promi-
nent physicians remarked that his pa
tients were better fed at Camp Wikoff
than in any hospital in New York City,
with which he had been connected. The
government soon realized the value of
| the work, and two weeks after the
opening of the kitchens, they were
| turned over to the officials, and from
| that, with no cost to private enterprise,
the sick soldiers of all the hospitals
were served, not only with homemade
| broths of beef, mutton and chicken, but
also with oysters, broiled chicken, ten
derloin steaks, chops, jellies, custards,
etc.
This new enterprise in caring for sick
soldiers deserves to be brought to the
attention Of the general public, and
should receive the strongest encourage
ment in the event of another war;
OTHER NOBLE WOMEN.
| The different relief societies, national
state and local, did noble work in aid
ing the government in properly caring
| for the sick and wounded. The names