Evening journal., 1917-12-03
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RED Cross RELIEF
Semi.Annual Report Shows
How Money is Being
Srent
BASE HOSPITAL
UNITS EQUIPPED

American Red Cross, appointed by
President Wilson May 10. Henry p.
Dawson, chairman. today makes pub
lie the report to the American people
on the present state Of the War Fund
and the work which IS being done by
the American Red Cross in this coun-
try and different parts Of the world.
The report, In part, is as follows:
The American Red Cross is at
tempting to respond TO the most be
seeching and far-reachins appeal ever
made for mercy and relief.
The American people are today the
richest people In the world, the rich
est In resources, richest in obliga-
tions and in opportunities. The Red
Cross aims to mobilize the hearts and
souls Of America toward binding up
the wounds Of a bleeding world.
Up to date approximately sSS00O-
600 In cash has been collected for the
War Fund. The demands, however,
in Europe are increasing with great
rapldity and on tho present basis Of
expenditure the siOOOOOOoO War Fund
cannot last much beyond Spring.
Following the preliminary report
recently made on the work In Europe
Of the American Red Gross, the War
Council presents herewith a sum
mary Of the work Of the Red Cross,
both in the United states and in Eur
ope from May 80, 1917, TO November
4, 1917.
During this period the War Council
sppropriaied from the War Fund lin
ciuding SI659.OO0 advanced TO chap
ters for purchase Of material and to
be returned to the War Fund, Si' '69,-
2i660. for work In the United les.
as contrasted with the appropriation
of S27. .SS5 1886 for worn abroad, Of
which s20.6Oi ,24047 was for use in
France.
There have been appropriated from
funds restricted to specific purposes
si.il7695.7 As S7659O00 advanced hy
the War Council Is to be returned TO
the War Fund the net appropriations
smount to S326i36592O,
The total expenses Of raising and
collecting the War Fund are proving
30 be less than one per cent The War
Fund Is deposited locally by the chap
ters and campaign committees. About
$500 banks now hold these deposits,
in the namo Of William G. McAdoo,
Treasurer.
Forty-nine Army base hospital units
and Ave for the Navy have been re-
cruited. organized and equipped by
the Red Cross. More than twelve Of
the Army units and two OF the Navy
units have now been mustered into
their respective Medical Corps and
are seeing service. These units can
care for a 5O0-bed hospital each, and
-F fn
enable them 10 take over larger hos
pitfalls.
The Red Cross has also organized
s. ambulance companies, with total
personnel Of $3.50 all OF which have
been taken into the Army Medical
Corps, some for service abroad, others
for the camps and cantonments. 4
General Hospital, FOR the use Of the
Navy. has been established at Fhila-
delphla. ConValescent homes have
been built at Fort Oglethorpe and
Fort Mcpherson. Georgia, and mobile
laboratory cars are to be provided for
use in case Of emergencies at the
lamps.
Through its Sanitary Service, the
Red Cross is cooperating with local
health authorities IN maintaining the
best possible sanitary conditions in
The zone just outside military juris-
liction at the training camps and can
tonments. Twenty sanitary units have
been organized for this purposes
The Red Cross has placed field direc-
.ors Of Camp Service at thirty-elght
ramps, cantonments and naval sta
lions. The purpose Of the Camp Ser
vice is to cooperate with all the
agencies that are advancing the well
fare Of the enlisted men.
The Red Cross has continued its
work of disaster relief during the war,
and has rendered aid in 6i calamities.
Recently a call for help for flood
victims in Tien-tsin was answered by
he dispatch Of q relief expert TO the
,ity and the sending Of Si25,000.
Fourteen thousand Red Cross nur-
.es have been enrolled for duty. and
approximately 5000 have already been
called into active nursing service, Of
whom 1000 are working abroad
a program for increasing the re-
serve Of fully trained nurses for war
service has been adopted 10 concert
with the Committee on Nursing Of
The Council Of National Defense and
other nursing authorities.
Appropriations in the L. s.
The direct appropriations from the
war fund for work in the United
states are divided as follows:
Hospitals, etc ............ S503. $1,000
Sanitary service ....... lsi.500O0
Camp service, etc. ......... 2,52s. .729lO0
Miscellaneous ........... 93.4S1.6O
s3,3i02i6.60
The Work in Europe.
The work Of the Red Cross in Eur
ope centers necessarily in France and
Major Grayson Mp. Murphy, a mem
Der Of the War Council, is head Of the
commission to France and Commits
ioner for Europe. Headquarters are
Paris. in a building furnished free
OF the current year for the use Of the