The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-10-10
American Red
Cross Notes

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to the public:
Fifty public health nurses
nave been assigned to the zones
around the National Army can
tonlnents, Naval bases and Ma
tional Guard camps. All visit
ing nurses in the rural territory
and cities adjoining the camps,
the ted Cross nurses will en-
deavor to prevent the spread of
tuberculosis and malaria and
strengthen the local infant
welfare programs.
Sept. 20.-rhe Red Cross is
sending DR.. Charles Ulysses
Moore, of Portland, Oregon,
with lG nurses, who have had
special training in children's
diseases and social welfare
work, to France to reinforce the
Infant Welfare Uni6. They
Will endeusor to decrease the
present high death rate among
children under two years OF
age. The Red Cross has estab
lished Il childreu's refuge, near
Loul, where 100 boys and girls
from nearby villages, which
have been under bombardment,
are being kept safe from gas
attacks under expert medical
care. In Belgium, the Red
Cross, together with the Rookie
Teller Foundation, is preparing
for between five and six thous-
and children.
Sept. 2l-Permanent build.
ings To supplunt the tents and
temporary structures now oc-
cupied by Red Cross base hos
pitfalls IN France are needed be.
fore winter sets in. The build
ing problem is so serious in
France, owing to the scarcity
of timber, that Major Murphy
cabled for two million feet of
fir Giant fir trees are now be
ing cut in Oregon and Wash.
'ngton and loaded on ship
waiting to carry the lumber
to New York, where two com
plete portable saw mills, four
concrete mixers, four portable
rock crushers, engines and two
gasoline tractors will be taken
on. The American Red Cross
now has more than a dozen
base hospitals in France with
500 beds each, aud each in
charge of 30 physicians, two
dentists, 65 Red Cross nurses
and $50 enlisted men of the
medical corps.
Sept. 23.-The desoiate path
of ruin behind the French and
British lines from Belgium to
Switzerland, is being relieved
by the American Red Gross,
which has located its relief
warehouses at strategic points
just behind the lines. 1t is
shipping in food, clothes, beds,
blankets, mattresses, binders,
moving machines, threshing
machines, garden tools and
hundreds of other articles of
Importance to people who were
prosperous and contented only
three years ago.
Sept. 2i.-The Red Cross Com.
misaion in France received an
appeal from Nesle for aid among
the children of their districts
and villages. y specialist from
a hospital was sent immed-
lately To investigate the con
ditions. He found the villages
looted and burned, more than
1000 children with no medical
care, all miserably dirty and
half Of whom were infected
with skin diseases. The Chill
dren's Bureau began work by
installing n central depot at
Nesle, with ten beds as clear
ing house for the district, and
by equipping an automobile as
a travelling dispensary with
shower baths. The cars visit
the villages on a daily round
with one nurse and two assist
ants.
Sept. 25.-Ihe American Red
Cross has completed plans for
securing frequent standardized
reports from all of it's 1900
Chapters as to their financial
transaction and membership.
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