New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-26
u. s. RED CROSS
WORK In EUROPE
TO STOP OCT. /
Doctors and Nurses Will
Be Withdrawn Owing
TO Lack of Funds.

Washington, July 25.-American Red
Cross doctors and nurses will be with
drawn from the European battlefelds
on October l because of lack of funds
to maintain them longer at their
stations.
1t is possible that the two units in
Belgium, where the greatest need ex-
lists, will be continued. but the other
fourteen detachmtnts will return 10
the United States.
The Serbian Sanitary Commission
and other work supported by special
contributions will go on as long as
those contributions are available, but
the general fund collected in the
United States, amounting to S1,56O,OOO,
will be exhausted on October l.
One Years Work.
"The American Red Cross by Octo-
Der l will have maintained its per
sonnet in each country a year. with
the exception Of the Belgian units and
the sanitary commission, says The
statement made public to-day by Miss
Mabel T. Boardman, chairman of the
Red Cross Relief Commission. The
statement continues:
"The tour Of duty required Of each
surgeon and nurse does not exceed
six months, so that a number have
already returned and substitutes have
been sent. By October a large num-
her Of those now in Europe will re-
turn. The cost of the transportation
Of these surgeons and nurses going
and coming makes a constant and con-
L 81 1 al n
Red Cross treasury. The monthly pay
roll is also a large item of expense.
an view Of these facts. and because
its funds are RAPIDLY becoming ex-
hausted the American Red Cross has
decided by October 1 of the present
wear 10 withdraw the personnel now in
Europe. possibly with the exception Of
the units in Belgium. Much as il re-
grets this necessity, it realizes that no
Red Cross of a neutral country ever
before rendered so long and extensive
service in the way of personnel to ma
tions engaged in war.
Typhus Suppressed.
"The work Of the American Red
Cross Sanitary Commission under DR..
Richard p. Strong, for which the Rocke-
Teller Foundation has made generous
contributions, has been most success
full. DR.. Strong was appointed director
of the international Health Board, COM
posed of Serbian health officers and the
heads Of the English, French and Rus
sian missions. The American minister
at Bucharest reports 10 the State De-
partment that the epidemic of typhus
has been suppressed.
"a large number of persons also
have been vaccinated against cholera,
and so far no epidemic of that disease,
which was very serious during the
Balkan wars, has been reported.
THE American Red Cross is now ar
ranging for physicians, nurses and
equipment for a baby hospital in Ser
bia, for which special contributions
have been received through Nine.
Crouch"
367 Persons Sent.
The Red Cross, the report shows,
sent TO the warning countries 3bI per-
sons engaged in humanitarian enter
prises. OF that number II were sur
geons and 253 nurses, while as were
members Of the Serbian sanitary com
mission. England, France, Russia, Ger
many, Austro-Ilungary, Serbia and Bel
GUM each received one or more units,
which means one or more complete nos
pitfalls, with doctors, nurses and other
attendants. ana with all necessary sup
plies and equipment.
Thousands of wounded and sick have
been cared for Financial aid was sent
also to hospitals and other institutions
in many countries, and supplies of
bandages and drugs have been rushed
to the war zones by every steamer The
administrative expenses of the huge
undertaking have already amounted to
Sl1.291, and this has been paid by the
Red Cross itself and not taken from
the fund contributed for relief