Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-05-10
ALLIES STAND
IN NEED 1000
MEDICAL MEN
FIVE THOUSAND AMBULANCE At.
PENDANTS ALSO WANTED BY ENG
LANQ. AND FRANCE. ANNOUNCE
MENT COUNCIL OF DEFENSE.
WITH. UNITED STATES ENTERING WAR
RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHICH THE
DOCTORS. HAVE BEEN PREPAR-
ING HAS NOW ARRIVED.

CHICAGO. May lo.-Engand and
France are in immediate need of two
thousand medical Officers and five thous-
and ambulance attendants.
This statement was made May by DIR.
Franklin Martin. head Of the medical di-
vision of the council of national defense,
in an appeal addressed " to the doctors of
America The appeal follows:
with our country entering the war. the
responsibility for which we a. doctors
have hcen preparing i now upon II. The
Encli~ ~hmcn and FrcnchIncn now onr al-
lies have come To confer with IL and tell
IL their problems. Their need for medical
Officers i acutc. Their civil population
i left without adequate medical protec-
ton and the rayagc> 81 war IN the fight
ing line have been unusually severe in the
destruction Of medical Officers and ambu-
lance attendants. Two thousand medical
officers for France ard England and five
thousand ambulance attendants. ii immc-
diatelv available would scarcely fill their
requirements.
I'VE have listened 10 their appeal and
the council j. ~eekig to help them %
promptly a possible. The SECRETARY Qt
war. the chief Of staff and the surgeon
general have authorized and are now eycat
ing the following plan:
"tal Surgeon General Gorgas i, muhl-
izing and oluipping in groups of two hun
dred doctors who are now members Of the
medical Officers reserve corps to support
the depleted medical forces of Egland and
France. These groups Of two hundred
will sail every months the first leaving
within the next three weeks.
"tb) Six Red Cross base hospital
units with twenty four doctors. fifty
nurses, and supporting personnel, az
grogating 196 each. have been ordered by
the war department to France for imme-
diate service.
"(c) One hundred and ten hospital
units with approximately three thousand
automobile ambulances and 5000 men ask
cd for by France. will be dispatched within
the next three weeks.
"TheSe are modest requests. The medi-
cal profession l. prepared to meet the call
and treble or quadrnple it if need be-. Ev-
cry doctor under fifty-fivc years Of age
who has not responded to the call TO en-
roll in the medical officers reserve corps
should do 80 at once. Every doctor who
i already member Of the medical off
GERS reserve corps or an applicant should
place himself nj the disposal Of the gov
ernment through the surgeon generals Of
flee for service with our allies, the English
and the French. This will enable The sur
geon general who has discretionary powers
in the distribution of members of the medi-
cal Officers reserve corps for service ID
utilize the Younger mon for service on ac-
| tive duty at the front and assign the elder
men now engaged in teaching students and
in the care Of civilian population at home
10 pursue the work for which they are he-t
fitted and maintain normal supply 81
medical GRADUATES.
The medical profession has been honor
cd with the first call bv those who hav,
been lighting our cause Let IL respon'
generously and fill their cup Of dcman,
10 ovcrtlowlng