Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-03
WORK NOW BEING DONE
BY AMERICAN RED CROSS
Henry DAWSON Chairman Makes First Semiannual Re-
port of War Councl-Detas as to Collections on Ac-
count of War Fund Made Up to November |.

" ith ehC SoHIHitilee OH nursing OF lnc
Council of National Defense and other
nursing authorities.
MILLIONS of women have been mobil-
lied for work on surgical dressings,
hospital garments. refugee clothing,
knitting garments and comfort kits.
II liz estimated that the value OF their
work during the next twelve months
VIII amount to nearly $4,000, 900.
Since April 1. 1917, the Red Cross has
sent abroad 1896 cases OF surgical
dressings. hospital supplies and cloth
ing' containing approximately 13!oOO.-
600 separate articles. The Red Cross
has promised to send 100000 surgical
Or essinGs to Franco every month for
tho next six months.
courses OF instruction In elementary
hygiene and home care of the sick.
nome dietetics and first aid have been
given throughout the United States.
more than $4,000 women have COM
pleted tho first OF these courses, and
$4,000 certificates of proficiency in erst
nil have been issued during tho past
yea; alone.
This work in the United States has
been directed from national hea Jnuar-
fers by completely reorFa1:zed ad-
the war Council. a general manager,
harvey d. Gibson. president OF the
Liberty National Bank. has been given
general charge OF the work in this
country. He has delegated the direct
oversight OF the chapters, of which
there are now 3,2s7. TO division man
ayers.
RED CROSS SALARY LIST
REDUCED FROM 200 TO 4c3
At national headquarters In WASH
ington STAFF has been built up which
included. on November l, 1917, sixty
three officials. most of them business
men and women of great experience
In large affairs. who are working with
out payment OF either salary or living
expenses.
Numerous others are either giving
their time or are working for nom
inal pay. The membership has grown
since the war from about 100000 to
more than 5oo.o0o,ooo. The salary list
has been reduced since last July from
about 100 to about 425. Salaries have
decreased also in average amount.
Had the Red Cross been obliged to pay
salaries to all the heads of departments
at national headquarters. the present
organization would have been impos-
sible.
a now class OF members. the Junior
Red Cross. has been created for school
children. who are admitted by school
units. to q share in Red Cross member
ship and relief work upon payment of
a membership fee of 25 cents per pupil.
The direct appropriations from the
war fund for work in the United States
are divided as follows:
Hospitals, etc. ..........$ 503,500 90
Sanitary service ......... 1S45oO 90
Camp service. etc. ...... 2,52S,729 90
Miscellaneous . 934S7 60
s3.3l0,216 GO
The work Of the Red Cross in Europe
Major Grayson NJ. p. Murphy mem
Der of the War Council. is head OF the
commission to France and commits
sioner for Europe. Headquarters are
in Paris. in building furnished free
for the current year for the use Of the
Red Cross. The working staff in
France numbers S64 persons, of whom
only 347 are paid by the Red Cross
The others are volunteers, or are paid
by their former employers or from
funds privately subscribed. so that the
average cost to the Red Cross is only
about 1890 per year for each worker
PRINCIPAL RED CROSS
AIMS ABROAD SUMMARIZED
OF the American Red Cross abroad may
be summarized thus:
l. To do everything possible to as
sist our army and navy In insuring
the health and comfort of American
soldiers and sailors abroad. and
. To relieve suffering among the
armies and restitution among the
civilian populations among our allies
The establishment and maintenance
in France Of canteens, rest houses.
recreation huts and other means Of
supplying comforts in the armies of
our allies have been the means of
heartening them and keeping their
become fully effective.
The details which follow here are
Supplemental, to those given in the re-
port issued in September.
Work for the American Army is the
Red Cross program in France. More
than twelve tase hospitals organized
by the Red Cross. and now mustered
into the army medical corps. are In
service in France The Red Cross is
also administering. under army con-
troll, tho hospital at Neuilly formerly
known as the American ambulance.
together with DIR. Joseph A. Blake's
hospital i'm Paris
The Red Cross is serving 3.423 mill
tary hospitals, 10th French and Ameri
an, thro. iii :he hospital supply ser
vice. which operates sixteen ware
houses and a motor transport system.
Approximately $4,000 tons of material
hospital and general relief supplies
ARC distributed monthly from these
warehouses. Tho surgical dressings
service reaches 1000 hospitals. Ameri-
can workshops in France will manu-
facturc nitrous oxide. repair hospital
apparatus, make splints and hospital
appliances.
FUND FOR MILITARY
MEDICAL RESEARCH
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