Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-08
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Many Swearing in as Assistants in Pennsylvania
Base Hospital No. 1O-Younger Men Are Sign
ing Up in Great Numbers for All Departments

CON. know that Rnddy Wister.
e,onhon Downs. Howard Seavcr and
host OF others have signed up with
,,rit from the Pennsylvania Hospital.
w. is 10 leave under sealed orders at
w." time soon, but not designated. |
sV" rr,v how it strikes you. but it
W. IN me a splendid thing that the
s.s,,yania Hospital, the q dest cstab.
~, bospital in the United states and
p'" ,uc,ed through private means with
,,. state contributions for nearly
..o bundlei years, should be the first
/. 80 hospital called upon to go, ana
.,,uld he the first one in TINS city
- orders came asst week for the
'.s,, IN report and he sworn in ready to
,,,bin n weeks time. And when they
so none of us viii know, but it nay
he as soon as next week
AS the minutes of the yearly report of
,,o hospital, which were read yesterday
'n,rroon. said. When war seemed
,,,,,inent with Mexico last summer and
.-.ons were ordered to the border, the
b ..-,ices of the Pennsylvania Hospital
~, ,he practice IN every war with which
,rr country has been confronted since
4, became a nation. Since then Richard
q uarte. as director, has been author
tod tn form for the American Red Cross
.un, for Il base hospital, to be known
=, Tho perusylvania Hospital Unit of the
Red Cross, No. TO-"
. l.,s
,lvania Hospital Unit of the Red Cross,
M 10. has been called for 10y the Gov
eminent for service in France and will
soon leave for duty. The unit consists of
o. musicians and surgeons, 65 trained
head nurses and $50 other persons as
assistants orderlies, etc. Though large
majority of the doctors and nurses have
boen connected at some time with the
Pennsylvania Hospital. ten doctors and
eight nurses are takea from the active
staff Of today Miss Dunlop. the head
nurse. is going with them.
The doctors of the staff who are going
arc DR.. Richard II. Harte, Dr. George w.
Norris. Dr. Arthur Newln, Dr. Charles
Mitchell, Or. Francis X. Packard DR..
Arthur II. Gerhard, DR.. John Bernard
Flick, DR.. Henry X. Dillard and Or. Will
liam Drayton. Dr. William Taylor and
his two sons as assistants have also
joined the unit. as has Dr Charles s.
Jack. Young Doctor Flick, who is n son
Of Doctor Flick, the tuberculosis spe-
ciast. was married only last Thursday
10 Ards Tanguay,
So, with a personnel of some two hum
dred and fifty the "pennsylvania Base
Hospital will start for somewhere in
France" very shortly. May they arrive
safe and sound. with their wonderful,
thoroughly equipped hospital.
Incidentally do YOU know what base
hospital means? Well, it means 500 beds,
seven or eight portable hospital wards,
surgeons, practitioners. nurses and about
two hundred assistants. all sorts and
kinds Of bandages, surgical dressings,
bed clothes, garments. pillows, spiints,
needles, surgical instruments of al
kinds, everything possible to think Of.
And I'm sure the poor sick soldiers
abroad who are actually wanting for
medical attention and care will welcome
them with open arms. It's a great work
and the hospital should he congratulated
that it is the first in this State called
upon to send it's unit.