Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-23
ALLIED RED ROSS
 ARMY HAS IMMENSE
 NUMBER 0F FEMALES
Two Hundred and Eighty eight Buildings in Paris, Alone, Now Fly the Red Cross Flag.


 PARIS, Jan. 2S.-(Correspondence of The Associated Press)-There are now 66,449 women in the French Red Cross volunteer army. equipping 150O hospitals with an aggregate of 11S,- beds. The Red Cross flag tow flies over 2SS buildings in Paris alone The Society for Aid to Wounded | Soldiers, the largest of the three Red i Cross organizations and the originat or of the work in France in 1864, spent thirty-two million francs during the first r months oi the year. The SO ciety has operated 796 hospitals. con sisting of 67,0S1 beds. and given a total of 21 million days care to wound ed soldiers. Besides these hospitals. the society maintains hospital of 500 beds at Saloniki, 93 refuges estab- lished in the 9th and 29th military regious in France, 70 infrmaries in railroad stations and 45 railroad can teens.
 The cost of maintainance of hos pitals varies so much that it is diff ficult to establish average cost per capita per diem, but as near as can be calculated this society has brought it's cost down to a little over three francs day.
 The Union des Femmes de France, the second in importacne of the Red Gross Societies, has now 2S,446 nurses equipping 355 hospitals, with 29,OOO beds, while the Association des Danes Francasises has 16,0OO nurses, in $50 hospitals, with 22,OOO beds.
 The mortality among the Red Cross nurses has been remarkably heavy considering the character of their work and the immunity they are sup posed to enjoy under the International regulations. Twenty-two members O. the society for Aid to the wounded sol diers have given their lives to the cause, some of them killed under shell fire, others carried of by contagious diseases. The nurses of this society have received 63 epidemic medals, 50 war crosses and one Cross of the Le' zion of Honor. Tine first Red Cross victim of the war was Mademoiselle Susanne Giles, who fell at Luneville with her chest torn by the fragments of a shell that burst inside the ho5pi tai ward where she was attending the ! wounded. The next was Mademoi selle Cagnard at CambIai, who is de clared to have been shot point blank by a Prussian soldier firing into the hospital through the whospital through the window. During the lombard ment of Rheims seven women of the Red Cross became victims of the bom bardment, including Madame FontainI Faudier, Msdemosiselle Causse ant Fl five sisters of charity
 Many women of the Red Cross giy, : attention to men at the front who hay ! no one to remember them at home One member, Madame Richelot, the wife of Dr. L. c. RicEelot, is god
 mother to 900 soldiers. which const! tutes a record to date.
 l Regarding the state of mind o 1 wounded soldiers now in the hospital after 16 months Of war, Madame Pc
 rouse, President of the Union de. . Femmes de France, says: They sup ! port their sufferings admirably an, are much more anxious to return the front than were the wounded i the hospitals last year at this tim, ;l They talk about active service with q. ] enthusiasm that is contagious q Monsieur Justin Godart, Under-sec l retary for War in charge of the san tary department of the army. has jus I replaced the society women of the Re s, Cross serving as nurses in some of tn
 military hospitals by paid indepenC ent nurses. The choice of nurses ou. side the three Red Cross organization. | developed considerable comment, bL 4 there was in this no reflection on tn. , devotion of Red Cross nurses; neithe. does it bring their efficiency into que + tion. Paid. trained nurses are mo-
 adaptable to military discipline whic
 must prevail in all military establish mentS
 il Most of the women who de:ct
 themselves to hospital work are fro: the easy classes they are necessarily so since they are required to give nCi only their time and sometimes the lives, but also their money to the cause. Some of them pay largely ic- the privilege ol serving the country as sorts of maids of ali work; other
 pay more dearly for the privilege ,i working as surgeons aids and as nu ses. Few Of them were, before tE
 var. accustomed to the hard work (. housekeeping, and some of them h2'
 learned its most elementary principle II in the hospitals.