Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-26
AMERICAN RED CROSS
FORCED TO WITHDRAW
After October There Will BE Nc
Funds to Maintain Work on
Europe's Battle Fields.
UNITS IN BELGIUM TO REMAIN
Other Fourteen Detachments OF Doc
tors and Nurses VIII Return to
L. S.-Statement OF Miss Board
man Gives Resume OF Labors.

WASHINGTON. July 25.-American
Rod Cross doctors and nurses will be
withdrawn on October I from the Eu-
topcan battle fields because OF lack OF
funds to maintain them at their sta
lions.
greatest need exists. NAV he contin
'cd. but the other fourteen dctach-
lhehtS VIII return TO the United States
ne Serbian sanitary commission and
o'hcr work supported by special contri-
button VIII 20 on AS long as those con-
tribntions are available. but the gem
erhi fund collected in the United States
amounting to Sl.500.o0O Will be ex-
hausted by October l.
The American Red Cross By Oc-
'oocr l. VIII have maintained it's per-
sonnet In each country "A year, with
the exception Of the Belgian Units and
inc sanitary commission" says the
statemcn, made public to-day by Miss
Mabel I. Boardman. chairman of the
fcd cross relief committee.
The tour Of duty required of each
surgeon and nurse does not exceed six
months, so that a number have al
ready returned and substitutes been
sent. The cost OF the transportation OF
these surgeons and nurses makes con-
siderable financial demand upon the
Red Cross treasury. The monthly pay
roll is also a large item of expense In
view of these facts. and because It's
FUNDS are RAPIDLY becoming exhausted,
the American Red Cross has decided by
october TO withdraw the personnel
now in Europe possibly with the ex-
ccption Of the units in Belgium Much
as IT regrets this necessity, il real
ICES that no Red Cross of n neutral
country ever before rendered so long
and extensive service in the way Of
personnel 10 nations engaged in war
The work OF the American Red Cross
sanitary commission. under Or. Richard
y. strong, for which the Rock cfcller
'foundaiion has made generous CON
tributions. has been most successful
Inc American minister at Bucharest re-
ports TO the State Department that the
epidemic Of typhus has been sup
pressed"
The Red Cross. the report shows sent
10 IN" warning countries $50 persons en-
gagged In humanitarian ENTERPRISES or
that number Il were surgeons and
253 nurses, while ~ were members
o. me Serbian sanitary commission
- England, France, Russia GERMANY
Austro- Hungary. Serbia and Belgian
chch received one or more complct.
hospitals with doctors. nurses and
"iher attendants and with all neccs-
sary supplies and equipment Thou
SANDS OF wounded and sick have been
cared for Financial aid was sent also
10 hospitals ana other institutions In
many countries and supplies of band
ages ana rugs have been rushed to the
war zones by every steamer. The ad-
mtnistrativc expenses Of the high un-
d"r,aking have already amounted TO
Sll.2yl. and this has been paid by the
licd Cross itself and not taken from the
t-nd contributed for relief
GREAT MASS OF SUPPLIES
SENT INTO WAR ZONE
The report shows that the Red Cross
has sent into the war zone almost
100000 pounds OF cotton for the hos
80 dc x,F
$4,000 yards OF crenoline, 727 900 as
sorted bandagcs, 5000 yards Of adj
hesive plaster. 2.2iG s,rctchers. l0,257
blankets and 10 motor aulbuiances for
The Red Cross personnel. Besides
great quantities Of various kinds of
antitoNins and vaccine, disinfcctants
surgical instruments and anaesthetics
and medicines. there We're four army
field hospital outfits. fifty army hospi-
tai tents and thirty field medical tents
Following is a summary Of services
rendered be!ligcrcnt countries: Aus
tria. eleven shipments, value sa7.6S3:
Belgium. twelve shipments. Sa67os:
England, thirteen shipments. Ss7S,5:
France. twcnty-four shipments S2lC,-
iS5; Germany. eight Shipments. value
SlS2.'25: Italy. two shipments $l4.45I:
Montenegro. three shipments. Sl5.52s;
Poland. ono shipment. 5000. Russia.
nine shipments. sSa,sl3; Serbia, eight
ments. $3.50.
In the work Of cleaning up Serbia.
the Red Cross has used 35S1S3 pounds
of sulphur. 100000 bichloride tahlets
1000 gallons of Kerosene oil. 5000
pounds OF formaldchyde. 1920 dozen
of cholera vaccine, 800 whitewash
brushes. 700 bath tubs 80 step ladders
and ii automobile trucks
The financial statement shows ex-
penditures Of Sl,450,305. leaving n bal
ancc Of Si74.SlS on hand. for which the
demands already are heavy.
OF the expenditures. the cash re-
nitted toialled Si23.SS2; salaries of
surgeons and nurses, sol6.0IS: travel
and supply transportation, Sl4S,472:
war insurance, Sl0,l32; equipments and
orttits, SS6,e3s: appropriated out of the
contingent fund for widows of sur
cons who sacrificed their lives In the
work. $4,000; for the American sani-
t"iH commission for TRANSFORMATION
"nlies. salaries and equipment,
$1,000.