The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-09-12
BIG JOBS ARE Done
we'll BY RED CROSS
Manufacture of Surgical Dress,
ing and Other Hospital Sup
plies One of First Tasks.

London (by mail)-One of the earn.
est forms of war activity undertakes
by the American Red Cross in Great
Britain was the manufacture of surgf-
cal dressings and other hospital re-
quirements. From modest beginnings
this work has increased until it now
employs more than 1000 workers in
30 branches throughout Great Britain.
The monthly output of these work
shops averages 300 900 separate a~rticlea
per month, n the outpuI has recently
risen to nearly twice that total.
The center of this activity is in q
large building at SO Grosvenor Gar
dens, adjoining the administration Of
fices Of the American Red Cross. Fif-
teen rooms in the building are devoted
to various branche of this work, which
is in charge Of Mrs. Fl. S. Waite as
chairman. All the rooms occupied in
the manufacture Of surgical dressings
are large, light and airy, and the mos.
modern appliances are at the disposal
of the workers. At this central station
$50 workers are employed, of whom
250 are volunteers while 100 are paid a
moderate allowance. The paid workers
are all women who have suffered fl
nancially owing to the wa@ and to
whom the small payments given them
by the Red Cross are a great boon
The out work branches IN various
parts OF England are mostly under
British administration but the Ameri-
can Red Cross furnishes all the ma
terials n patterns, which are sent
out in large hampers. Fifty hampers
are in constant circulation for this pur-
pose. The supplies, Then gathered into
the central warehouse, are sent out
through II regular system OF distribu-
ton, to six principal hospitals In Great
Britain, and to a great number Of hos
pitfalls on the British, French and
American fronts in France.
a few weeks ago the central work
rooms received an urgent appeal from
the American army FOR 100000 first aid
packages 10 be supplied to American
soldiers. Each OF these packages was
To contain - articles, the whole order
thus involving the manufacture OF
2, 400, GOO separate dressings. togethec
with an enormous amount of labor in
connection with the careful packing
md shipment OF the packages. This
work, moreover, was 10 be carried on
without Interfering with the regular
duties Of the work rooms IN supplying
their usual hospital supplies. 1t was q
big order: but the executive committee
tclcgraphed its answer jmmediately:
I've will deliver first aid packages az
requested at rate of $4,000 per week.,
beginning Immediately" From h
ftrSt week, this rate has been exceeded,
Rrd the entire order has now been filled
and is in the hands of the American
army authorities.
Some time ago, the work rooms made
arrangements with Nine. Carton de
Wharf of the Belgian relief COMMITTEES
for a large number OF hospital gar
ments to he made By Belgian women
refugees in Great Britain. These gar
meiits are made in their homes in va
ri0I,S partS of Great Eritain. tho Clit~
nut garments being sent i'll hampers to
lie War and returned fin
ished TO the work rooms. Payment for
the work is made to Madame de Wharf
In bulk and distributed by her to h
individual workers.