The San Francisco call., 1898-12-03
GOOD WORK 0F THE RED GROSS AT MANILA Much Done for Sick Soldiers. NEEDED MEDICINE FURNISHED COMFORTABLE BUILDINGS HAVE BEEN SECURED. -
 
NEEDED MEDICINE FURNISHED
COMFORTABLE BUILDINGS HAVE s BEEN SECURED.
There Has been Great and Com
 mendable Change in the Man :'~ .agement of Affairs Since . -: Schlott's Arrival.
BY SOL IN. SHERIDAN.
Special Correspondence of The Call.


 ,.. MANILA, Oct: 21.-There has been a great and most commendable change in the mana cement of Red Cross affairs since Mir. Schlott came to Manila. I have come to believe that grave in justice has been done to this gentleman, due in part to his own misunderstood :. ing. of the situation here and in part : also to the fact that he was not directly accredited by somebody at home to the California Regiment. Schlott : shows a determination now, at all : events, to aid the Californians by every means in: his. power, and he has been the cause of. a great lessening in the sickness. among the lads of the regi- ment:.. Of course his work has taken a: broader scope than that. The sick of the. whole army has been made to feel that the Red Cross is merciful organi- zation, although .Schlott has been ham pered not a little by the arrant stu. pidity, to call it by no milder name, which has characterized the manage ment of the medical department of the Eighth Army Corps.
 In the first place. after he had gained some knowledge of the situation and set his original mistakes right, MT. eSchlott rented new house on the Calle Conception which he fitted up originally as a hospital for the Californians, but which was taken as a hospital for off cers. This place is still partly under MT. Schlott's direction, and as a re- suit is the best managed institution of the kind in Manila. In this place there are accommodations for sixteen officers and twenty men, and the place is full all the time. The friends of officers will not permitstheIn to chance the hor- TOTS of the brigade hospital, and the men who can get under the wing of the Red Cross esteem themselves for :tunate.~ :: : s:::@...:.
 The taking over of this concern by the army authorities made it necessary, of couTsei for. Schlott to seek new out. let for the energies of the society-and, this time, it was deemed better to do something for the " CalifOrnianS that could not be taken away from. them. Majcr Mccarthy of the First California acted as director of the movement this time and as a starter obtained his own appointment as director of a ward es- .pecially for CalifornianS in the brigade Hospital. This was the opportunity MT. 'Schlott had secured for the accommo- dation: of: his nurses, a house on Calle Concepcionj one block from his original hospital. In this house several rooms were. fitted up as wards, and besides this the Red Cross manager put up in the yard-a large :one-four big, roomy tents, with floors raised from the ground and accommodations in each for forty. eight patients. These tents have com- .fortable cots; each with its mosquito netting, tables, camp chairs, all the accessories designed to lessen as much as possible the evils of sickness in camp life Between. the tents a large floor = has been laid, roofed over with thatched nd lfei6 fa11 ffA' IeS rain and the: sun, and here the male. nurses eat with such of the patients as are able to be out of bed. It is a most complete arrangement ; all through. There is a. tent, also, used exclusively for sick Filipinos. - ...< . have described, in q previous letter, the California convalescent hospital at Ermita: This place, with two large tents for officers and attendants, MT. SchlOtt fitted up from the Red Cross fund-and he. likewise furnished the tents. Seventy five cots. all those orig inally. brought: out from San Francisco, went into this hospital.
 The smallpox. patients, toe. would have suffered very much more, than they did if 1t had not been for the Red Cross.... The army. medical authorities did not provide for any such contin- gency as the outbreak of plague. The. army medical authorities did not pro- vide for any contingency whatever. It was Schlott who gave the tents for the pesthouse and who had them floored 1t was Schlott who furnished pr. O'Brien the drugs needed to combat the disease-as he has furnished the Cali fornia medical officers with drugs to take the place of inferior articles pro- vided by the Government, thereby ma terially decreasing the sick list of the regiment. It was Schlott who. fur ''nished the alcohol in which the pest. house attendants bathed themselves to avoid contagion and to the use of which Dr. Lippincott objected. as too expen- sive". for the purpose. ..
 In fact. in his new character Schlott has come: to be-the saving angel of the: troops here. He is generous where gem. erosity is of value in dealing with the sick: He has shown admirable .execu- tive ability, and he has sought the best . of advice Nobody in, the army is bet. ter fitted to advise with intelligence in a matter ofsthis kind than Dr. Me Carthy of the First California, and pr. Mccarthy is Schlotts best friend here now: .. =.
 Mir. Schlott yesterday. rented still an- other house, which he will at once fit up in his grounds in :Calle .Concepcion, but there Is a need for more women nurses than he has here now, and the need is growing. 1t would. do your heart good to go among the sick men here and see how the preSence~of a deft-fin- gered woman at the bedside brightens them. There are eleven of these women here now, all doing noble work. The society should send no more married. couples, as nurses, the couple that came with Schlott having turned out a. dis. appointment, and men who come to nurse are, unfortunately, not to be re- lied upon. Two of those who came with Schlott, Hyle and Ross, deserted him after their arrival here. He has four male nurses now, all doing good work, but the women are very much better on the whole They work harder, are conscientious, and infinitely painstak- ing.
 There is need for money, too, and here is a chance for arpeal to the gen. erosity of Calfornians. It is a spirit which, as all men know, is not invoked in vain. Drugs are needed constantly, and can only be bought for cash. Sup plies are needed, and delicacies. There is need for even more hospitals than the army has now, and should Manila be permanently occupied should the vol unteers unfortunately be kept here, then the need will be greater instead or less. The donors can rest perfectly well assured that the money will be- ex- pended for the purposes to which 1t has