The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-11-27
AMERICAN NURSE
IN WAR CAMPS
SISTER OF GOLDFIELD MAN AC-
CEPTS OFFER FROM GER
MAN GOVERNMENT

Miss Katherine Hertzer, who has
been with the American Red Cross
nurses at Budapest, Hungary. until
recently. has accepted an appoint
ment by the German government as
sanitary inspector in the prison
camps of Russia. Miss Hertzer is a
sister of Frank Hertzer of this city
and a member of the Tribune force.
Miss Hertzer, with other American
nurses, will aid German prisoners in
Russian concentration camps. They
will cover a large part of European
Russia in their work. The offer was
rendered her after she had practi-
cally determined to return to the
United States after successful work
in the military hospital at Budaest.
1T was my intention to return
to America this fall" writes Miss
Hertzer, but l was induced to &C
cept the offer made by the German
government of sanitary inspection
service in the prison camps of Rus
sia.
1T is to be in the nature of an ex-
change service-Germany sending
surgeons and nurses from a neutral
country to the Germans, Austrians
and Hungarians who are prisoners,
either military or civil, in Russia,
while Russia has the opportunity OF
sending neutral surgeons and nurses
to look after the Russians who are
prisoners in Germany and Austria
Hungary.
Plans for our work have not been
completed, but we are expecting to
be divided into groups of four or five
and be assigned in turn to various
prison camps, and it is not expected
that we do much individual nursing,
but rather devote our time to segre-
eating the sick and wounded from
the well. arranging special food for
the sick, ~isOlating the contagious
cases and supplying the prisoners
with material, such as utensils ano
disinfentants for cleaning up their
camps.
I'VE will probably have several
bathing and disinfecting plants on
wheels, and as soon as our work is
well under way in one camp, go on
to the next. We will also visit the
hospital transports. or transports for
wounded in the vicinity of Moscow,
dress the cases which need it and
have removed from the trains serious
cases needing immediate operation.
First we expect to begin work in
Moscow, as the greater number of
transports for wounded pass through
that city. In Moscow are about 49,
900 wounded prisoners. The con-
centratiOn camps are scattered
throughout European Russia. In
Serbia the civil prisoners live in viii
lagos. AS we have all the prison
camps of European Russia and the
western half of Serbia, you may we'll
imagine there will be a vast territory
to cover, and | imagine Our number
will seem very small when we once
begin work.
There is one camp south OF the
Ural mountains and east of the Aral
sea to which one detachment will be
sent. Another will go to Transk, in
central Serbia, and work from that
as a center. Eastern Serbia will be
covered by another group of Ameri-
can surgeons and nurses under the
direction of DR.. Strang, who was
sent by the American Red Cross and
the Rockefeller foundation to sup
press the epidemic of typhus in
Serbia.
"In Berlin we met an American
doctor, returning from Serbia, who
states there were about 100 cases Of
typhus in early September in Serbia.
I'VE left Budapest Sept. 10 on d
special car and went to Berlin via
Vienna and Dresden. Throughout
Hungary, Austria and Germany We
travelled on military passes. We re-
NAMED in Berlin a week as the
guests of the Kriege Ministerinn, or
ministry of war, and were at the
Adon hotel, Inter den Linden, near
the royal palace.
I'VE met the crown princess at the
palace and were entertained by the
German Red Cross and the United
States ambassador, Mr.. Gerard. Al
these functions we met many of the
officials in high government posi-
tions.
From Berlin via SassuitZ across
the Baltic to Trolleborg, Sweden, then
by sleeper to Stockholm took us "a
hours. We have a three days stay
here. had tea yesterday at the
United States legation. Mr.. Mares
of Chicago is United States minister
to Sweden. They have the most mag
nificent residence, the terraced
grounds reaching down to the inlet OF
the Baltic. 1t was built by the
youngest son of the king. and he
lived there Tor a while.
Tonight we will leave overland
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