Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-12
RED CROSS TO OUTFIT
MCGUIRE HOSPITAL UNIT
Local Chapter Will Supply 1900
Garments for Its Equipment
and Operation.
ALL SYSTEMATICALLY PLANNED
Articles Will BE Ready, Assorted and
Packed, by Time Doctors and
Nurses OF 1,O0O-Bed Hospital Are
Ready to Sail for France.

an Inspiring sight is the newly
htted-up Red Cross workroom on the
second floor of the big concrete build
ing at Fourth and Grace Streets. which
formerly housed the congregation OF
Grace Street Presbyterian Church.
Still in place are the great stained
glass windows and the pipe organ back
OF the pulpit. at the far end OF the
room. but instead OF the ptws. where
many congregations listened in times
OF peace to sermons in which there was
no hint OF war. there are long tables
OF unstained pine. fresh and clean.
and ranging along the sides are big
presses. with many shelves for the
storing of supplies. and row of sew
ing machines on either side.
Under the pulpit Is a businessiike
desk and telephone. and to the left
is the knitting department.. with
separate press for the immense guam
tity OF wool used in the knitting Of
sweaters. socks. muTers. helmets and
the like. Business Offices are down
stairs. where formerly the Sunday
school room was located. Here are the
desks Of State and city officers OF the
Red Cross organization packing-rooms
and storcrooms. but except for the
busy click of typcwritcrs and confer
cnces between heads OF departments
and visitors. there is no indication OF
the immense amount OF work that is
being accomplished in the building.
WILL SUPPLY NEEDS
or INQUIRE UNIT
In charge Of the workroom upstairs
is Mrs. Charles L. Williams. Jr.. who
is chairman of the committee on hos
pital supplies. Her good right hand
is Mrs. Robert w. Vincent. who is al
ways ION the desk" as they say in
newspaper offices. Confronting the
Richmond chapter Of the Red Cross
Just now is the enormous task OF
cquipping the Medical College OF Vir-
Einia hospital unit known the Nc
CURE unit, or, officially, as base hos
pital No. As. II must be remembered
that this is l000-bed hospital. and
TO the uninitiatcd. il is almost incon-
ccivable to be able to estimate down
TO the last dust cloth and towel what
= Will be needed somewhere i'll France"
by the personnel OF such Il hospital to
keep II going even for a month.
Now. at this minute, there are al
ready packed and ready for instant
shipment at the Red Cross headqunr-
tors cases containing 1880 garments,
part of the base hospital equipment.
There are also four cases full Of
muslin bandages. and cases contain
ing gauze bandages as follows:
Gauge congresses. 3Xo inches. 256;
Eauze congresses, ANA inches, 39l;
gauZe wipes, 2x2 inches. los: gauze
wipes. Ana inches. c02. gauze rolls, 3
yards long. %: sauze rolls. yard long.
81 l-2: gauZe drains. inches, IA: gauzc
drains / inch. IA; EauZc drains. l-2
inch. Is: gauZc laporotomy pads, l2&l2
inches. l3: Sau.e laporotomy pads, exc
inches. "a: gauze laporotomy pads. 4Xl5
inches. 1912.
In several instances the workers
have gone beyond the requirements in
gauze bandagcs: in others. the equip
ment is short OF the regulation num-
Der. For instance. eighty dozen pairs
of pajamas are required. and there
are only siXtY-fve dozen on hand. The
Richmond chapter OF Colonial DANES
is pledged to furnish the equipment
for $50 beds. But for the remaining
$50 beds. the Richmond chapter OF the
American Red Cross is responsible.
Can you do it," Mrs. Williams was
asked. by the middle of October. at
, the latest" she replied, smilirgly, tho
equipment will be ready to go for
ward with the personnel OF the Nc
CURE unit to France"