New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20
Lack of Equipment Pre-
vents Sanitary Treatment
in Frontier Bases.
PRESIDENT INVITED
TO TEUTON BENEFIT
Whitman and Won Bernstorff
Asked to Attend Fair for Cen
trail Powers Sufferers.

Since 7 o'clock this morning I'VE OIL
us nurses have been trying 70 look
after 100 typhoid patients Every nan
is on the brink OF death. II is simply
awful TO see them suffering and to be
able to do nothing to lessen the suf-
fering.
when man is brought from the
field he is dumped into cold water ana
then placed on straw mattress. Twice
a deg they are taken up and put INTO =
bath. where twenty use the same bath
four times. They are quite naked; no
slippers, no towels. They get into bed
wet. They either die or get we'll IN a
few days
This is an extract from letter de-
scriptive Of conditions IN the Hospital
Rcbeval i'm Neufchateau, Nosges, writ
ten by Miss Irene Mandy. an Engli sh
nurse, 10 friends I'm New York. After
nursing in war hospitals IN France Tor
year Miss MANLY was stricken III.
and owes her recovery. she says, TO DIR
de Bauchet attached 10 the American
Ambulance Corps.
These men have TO live and cat and
die like pigs the letter contir ues
"Nauy have been IN the trenches for
months and have never washed during
all that time. All are infectious cases,
typhoid, typhus. scarlet fever, dlph-
liberia. etc | am quite near Nancy: the
firing line is about thirty miles away
There are all barracks here rooms
or wards ike stables. with stone floors
iron beds. straw mattresses and straw
pillows for us all. No chairs a. all.
one table on which and under which
everything goes. milk. brooms. shoes.
etc. One tin mug for everything. We
try 20 be careful. but it is impossible
10 dis.nfect, because we have not the
right things to do the work"
The exhibition OF Lafayette rei'cs,
including personal effecrs of the mar
quis. loaned by the French government
and recently exhibited at the Panama
Pacific Exposition. will open ct the old
Knickerbocker Club. 3l9 Fifth Avenue
February %. A Marie Antoinette eX-
hibtion will be held in conjunction
with IT, Proceeds are FOR the Lafa-
yette Fund for the benefit Of French
soldiers and orphans. Recitals viii
be given each afternoon.
4 new fund for United States mile
tary relief has been started hr me
New York Chapter of the AmeIi,a,. Red
'.
was made by Mrs Whitelaw Reid the
second, from Mrs f.. II. Hartman,
amounted 20 $4,000. II Is 10 equip a
Red Cross base hospital OF 900 beds, in
connection with the Bellevue unit.
Contributions received yesterday. by
Mrs. whitney Warren, treasurer Of the
Socours National Fund, is East Forty
seventh Street. amounted 20 si7f,
bringing the total 10 Sl43. 96s.2e. An
nouncement j. made by the treasure
OF the American Jewish Relief Com
mittee that up TO February 70. he had
received ir cash. s2.38022j. and in
pledges S72l.79s.
President Wilson. Governor Whit
man. Count Won Bernstorf and other
nigh officials have been asked TO attend
the bazaar FOR the benefit Of war suf
ferers in the countries % the Central
Powers. 1t will be held in Madison
Square Garden from March II 20
March %.
The Vacation War Relief Committee
80 West Thirty-ninth Street. announces
contributions Of 1869 during the week.
bringing the grand total 20 1924, 085.
The American Fund for French Wound
ed announces the receipt o. 81 .03S dur
ing the week, bringing the total 20 SID
3S9. The American Girls Aid. $50 Fifth
Avenue. for the collection Of clothing
for victims OF the European war in
France. has received contributions
amounting to S57A62 during the week
II. total now is ll.296.12 The central
committee for the Relief of Jews Suf-
fcring through the War. G3 Park Row.
as a result Of the collection made on
Proclamation Day January -. an
nounces twenty-four contributions OF
more than coo. the largest Of which
was $4,000 received from Detroit,
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