New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-05-22
For Tots Too Young to Wear Gas
Masks Ssh

For Tots Too Young to Wear Gas
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We have homes at Toule for the ini-
tiation of which we owe great debt
of gratitude to the "Home for French
! Wounded" L.&s
These tots are brought back from the
districts where they are under gas fire.
They are too small to wear gas masks
and consequently they would be killed.
We have 500 from there. From Toule
our ambulances move around in the
country, and we hold clinics where our
doctors and nurses care for the sick,
particularly children, but also for the
civilian sick who happen to be in that
district and who cannot otherwise get
treatment because all the doctors have
been called into the service.
At Neuilly we have 1000 children
from Belgium, children on the point OF
breaking down owing to the lack Of
nourishment and care. In conjunction
with the Belgian Government we have
taken them out and have placed them
in homes established and supported by
us. One thousand more are coming as
soon as arrangements can be made to
repatriate them.
! The French Government has turned
over to us for examination and care the
little children repatriated through Avi-
gnon. These children when they come
there are broken down in health through
lack of nourishment. We give them
treatment at Avignon and at Lyons.
If they have contagious diseases or
are in conditions of contagion, we con-
centrate them at our contagious hospital,
which is near Lyons. -,
Decent Housing for the Refugees
With the refugees we are carrying
through, again in strict cooperation with
the French Government, great work,
namely to get these people out of the
wretched concentrated condition Of life
which has been forced upon them, and
to give them decent housing conditions:
And the French Government has res
Gently requested us to establish with
their representative at Avignon central
committee, and asked us to have branch
committees cooperating with the French
officials throughout France, so that when
the repatriated people come in, our COM
mittee and the French Government s
representatives decide on where they
can be best taken care of, with mind
to their future condition.
They are sent there, and then the
French Government and our committee
there take hold Of them, and we arrange
with the French Government for furni-
ture, supplies, tools, or something, so
that the poor people can take care OF
themselves in respectable way and not
be drag on country suffering as no
other country in the history of the
world has ever suffered, unless it is a
country which has been overrun like
Serbia
Checking Tuberculosis
We are conducting work against
! tuberculosis which is unparalleled in the
history of the world. You know how
France has suffered from tuberculosis,
from their people living in these unwhole-
some dugouts and the other conditions
they now live in. Tuberculosis has
developed in the trenches, too; and the
troops are sent back to their homes,
carrying the germs Of these dread dis
eases with them.
We have been able, working with the
Rockefeller Foundation, to put into
effect a system of education in France,
a system to care for bad cases in sana-
forums, and a system which will lead to
the establishment of great system OF
300 dispensaries throughout France
with visiting nurses attached, which in
the opinion of DR.. Farrand, who is pre-
eminent in the world in the fight against
tuberculosis, is going to lead to the gain,