Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-08
LAUDS RED CROSS
FOR LEND|D WORK
AMONG THE TROOPS
DR.. Jessie w. Fisher, Daughter OF
One Time Local Pastor, Tells
of Great Achievements.
FRITZ AFTER HOSPITALS

Writing from the front in France, where
she is in active service with the American
Expeditionary Force as member OF the
Red Cross Medical Staff, DIR. Jessie w.
Fisher, daughter of the late Rev. J. W.
Weston, onc-time pastor OF Mt. Saiefn
Nj, f. Church, showers great praise on the
Red Cross organization and the work IT is
doing in helping to win the war. :.
In letter dated somewhere in Franc"
and received yesterday she said:
eve are within sound of the guns, which
are heard plainly at night We are IN no
danger from that source but the air raids
are terrible, and are doing much damage
and killing many people. Frit2 is evident
lv after the hospital as that seems to be
his long suit.
"Thc Red Cross is doing the most mag
nificent work ever attempted IN the his
tory of the world. Their policy over here
is to fill in the gaps, be they civil or
military, SO whenever the other organiza-
tions break down the Red Cross r,ishcs to
the rescue. So well have they planned,
that their warehouses were full before the
troops began TO come ovcr-full of every
conceivable thing-so that it has beeome
an axiom, The Red Cross will give 1T to
you.' and give il without the maddening
red tape and DELAYS which are so deadly
in this game
so well have they managed that
France has had all assistance and 1t has
been given freely and France has been
made to feel that she is confering favor
on us. not us on her Every army, every
organization, every hospital, etc. | think,
In France has been assisted or Its work
slipplemcntcd BY the Red Cross. At the
front the workers are the last 20 leave the
evacuated towns and first to receive the
refugees, etc
Without the Red Cross can't imagine
how thcv have been able 10 get along.
Surely the organization Ie fairy God
mother to the war,
There is. in spite Of it all, very little
waste. The people at home can be sure
that their money is being spent to a tire
mendous advantage There Is nothing but
praise for the Red Cross
HOSPITAL WORK.
Some interesting details of the hospital
work arc gwen in another part OF Or
Fishers letter in which she says:
"The bows, both French and American,
come to us either direct from the front
line dressing stations or through the
field hospitals when things are active
from the former where nothing has been
done except imperative dressings and
antitetanic serum gwen. In periods OF
calm they have usually been operated
upon in the field hospital. In either case,
whatever is needed is done here and the
lad moved on in day or two 10 the next
and the next till he finds himself In South
ern France in a base hospital TO recuperate
or on his way home.
when things are active they seldom
stav more than two days. Even big
arnputations have to be evacuated. 1t
seems hard but necessary and as rule no
i'll effects are noticed, although, OF course,
they suffer But never whlmper. They
really are the pluckiest lads | ever saw.
THE X-ray machine Is absolutely Indls-
pensible. Every lad after having cigar
cite, a bath, if his surgical condition per
mits of that delay, goes direct to the
X-rav room where bullets and all foreign
bodies are located so when he goes next TO
the surgeon he knows exactly where to
cut.
Believe me they do cut too. 1t is
absolutely necessary TO avoid gas gangrene
TO lay everything wide open and remove
all debris or torn tissue, etc. Then we
come in, taking cultures. II these show
clean wound next day the surgeon closes
the wound, if not he opens II up wider.