New Britain herald., 1917-03-08
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 Extract of letter from Madame GrOuitch.
 February 2, 1917. Dear Mrs. Mead:
 have just received a letter which contains such Q compliment for your surgical dressings that felt I must tell you about 1t. Miss Mary B. Glad win, who has been for some years connected with the Beverly hospital. and during one year head nurse of the first American Red Cross hospital at Belgrade, is now the representa- tive of my Serbian hospitals fund at the headquarters of the Serbian army hospitals. When starting for the Serbian front she wrote from Paris.
 '''I am taking with me, (because they are already sterilized and ready for immediate use) cases given by the surgical dressings committed. con taining dressings. bandages. and padded splints.''
 As told you and the ladies of your committee (the day I had the honor of speaking before you recently at the Peter Bent Brigham.) the conditions at the Serbian front are very differ ent from those on other fronts. The men are fighting up in the mountains completely removed from civilization, where there is often no means of even setting up a tent in which to care for the wounded, whose wounds are dressed while they are lying on the ground in the shelter of g rock or mud embankment. Under such con ditions it is quite impossible for sterilizing Asor any other preparation besides a nasty application of what ever dressings the surgeon has inn mediately at hand. The tin cases in which your dressings are packed, and which can be carried on horseback or by hand, without suffering any con-. are certainly the most preparation for such con- ditions as these that can be made.
 I am most grateful for the cases you have already sent me, some of which have been included in. the Red Cross shipment recently sent to Sa- lonica via Marseilles, and thank you most heartily for the promise of more. I wish they were already on their way to Serbia, for the condition of the Serbian army, which occupies the most advanced positions on that front. Is more desperate than that of any of the others.
 Believe me, with cordial greetings and heartfelt thanks to you. and all the members of the surgical dressings 
 Yours sincerely.
 Re Hospital Miiitaife { No. 23, Houlsate. My. Dear .Mxs. dead: ll
 Sister 'asrFites me, from sf1e HosS pital p, that you and your commit! tee, have kindly sent us another lot of your useful dressings, as certified by the American clearing house. We are extremely grateful and but for the kindness of our American friends, the work of doing good to our French soldiers could not have gone on. wish I could express to you my grate- full appreciation, and I hope when this war is over I may be able to do so in person and then could tell you of the real gratitude of our brave sol- diers who understand in France quite we'll what all your. kindness has done  for them. a
 I am home on few months rest very tired after a severe four months work but hope to return soon.
 With grateful appreciation on be- half of No. 23. and the staff and the suffering.
 Yours very sincerely.
 FRANCES DuPUY FLETCHER.
 Mrs. Frederick s. Mead, to whom these letters are addressed, is chair man of the New England committee, which is represented locally by a branch, whose headquarters are at 16s Vine street. ,<
 Those who are willing to volunteer for the work are referred to Mrs. H. B. Humason. chairman. POI Vine street, or Mrs. G..S. Talcott. secre-