Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-21
HOSPITAL UNITS
FOR AMERICANS
Women Overseas Erect Build.
ings to Provide Care
for Soldiers.
WILL TREAT GAS CASES Asses
Doctors, Nurses and Aids Are,
Needed to Handle
the Work.

NEW YORK, July ga recent cable
from France. received at the headquarrS
ters of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, announces that
the French Government has assigned a.
30O-bcd hospital for gas cases, 10 the
Womens oversee Hospitals. U. S. A.
The French Service de Sante Will 5;
maintain the beds. -f sf
A second cable. more recent stilt,s
asks for doctors. nurses and nurses's
aids for an extension OF the LabouTsp
heyre refugee unit. These units. with
two already established in France, will q
make four hospitals backed by the
American national sufragists. There
are nine of the Scottish Women's Hos-
pitfalls. sustained by British suftragists,
and the executive committee Of theH
women's oversee Hospitals, whose
chairman is Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany,
does not expect that sister suffragistsS
in the United States will do less wellsiss
Dr. Mabel Seagrave. surgeon from
Seattle, Wash. left recently for the
unit at Labouheyrc, Landes, in south-5
ern France, where 500 refugees arc
now being cared for in barracks
erected by German prisoners in. the
Mayors own grounds. In this section
few French doctors are left to care .forS
the civilian population, and tho access
OF hundreds of refugees gives these
women doctors an Overwhelming task.N
One of the new units will be stationeds;
in the same province and will be- rum
as an extension OF that to which DR., 4
Seagrave is billeted. ls9sfs
She is surgeon of fifteen years.
active experience. Johns Hopkins .
graduate. alumna of Wellesley
1905. While her special desire is for
surgery, she has enlisted as patriot.
and will serve in any medical position
to which she is assigned. SO
DOCTOR DEEPLY INTERESTED N Ss
IN SUCCESS OF WORK.;
DR.. Scagrave is one of the intensest
Of Americans. She has felt ever since:
Belgium was invaded that the United
States should take part in the world
struggle for democracy tT,s
'All the male members Of my fam.
lily who could serve the country in
the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars
did So" she told a reporter just be-
fore she sailed. LAS there were few
men in my family able to enlist in
this war. it was plainly up to me to-
carry on" or the Women's oversee
Hospital units now in the field, oneris
an evacuation hospital at Chateau
Ognon. 1t was reported from Paris
to the Washington I'd. C.) daily press
that when Nillers -Cotterets was
bombed. the American unit at Chateau
OGnon took over the wounded from
their British sisters OF the Scottish
Women's Hospitals who were operate
ing at Viliers Cotterets during the
raids until they were ordered outebyi
the military authorities on May a0.&
They had been receiving wounded from
the forest lighting in which Americans
were engaged. and fifty American
wounded. among others, were reported
as evacuated safely by the American.
Red Cross and an American twelveS
stretcher car. -s
The Womens Oversee Hospitals unit
AT Chateau Ognon has become so useful
to the French Service de Sante. with
whom 1t is working. that it Is being
retained indefinitely as an evacuation
hospitai stair. Among those at Cha
teau Ognon are DR.. Anna Sholly and
DR.. Povitsky. with nurses and aids.
A communication received from MISS
Anne Hirst Curry. official correspond.
dent of the Women's oversee Hospttais.
Landes, France says: 1919
ENTER THROUGH FIELD
kNEEDEEP IN BUTTERCUPS
we are in our barracks We araS
working. Nothing else matters. Somesl
or the barra cks are visible through thesi
trees. and until our own motor road is Il
built we enter through n field kneedcep8
IN buttcrcups-they grow a foot high
over mere. The personnel barracks are
grouped together. the sale a manager f
ana Kitchen. Meters away. by path
through the trees. perched on :. sand
hiii' stand our hospital and adminis-5
tration buildings.
we have sanitary officer and in.
spector. part of our local board of &
heaith' we have fire commissioner I
10 protect us from danger We have
sets OF rules too And we make our
own beds every morning. Hours arei
SCI ior regular duties, and the hours
are kept.
The government sent an inspector
to-day 10 see our cantonment, and he +
was escorted by no less personaRe 4;
than the Project himself. They weraS
much interested in the details of con.
struction. and tho changes we had
made from the usual plan of such barn
r"chs' Iheir approval was good ID =
see me Prefect is anXiously awaiting
the arrival of the refugees I'm this I
town, for they are yet quartered among y
the people at the seat of governments
IN ms own small city. He Is doing
a" he can to hasten the completion 4
OF the refugee barracks that they may
oe furnished and occupied by the 500
refugees who Will be under our care. sS
We have committed our frat op-
eration. Last Sunday on table has-M
iiS htted In room OF the hospitai.s
pare OF furnishings. DR.. Formal y
opened cerrical abscess In q young yas
ster OF five. under chloroform. Wa ais q
most framed him as Exhibit a.
And our dentist, DR.. Nevin, mass
pulled her first tooth.