The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-13
M1t1ens Var Work

erS gather there every evening with the
exception OF the Sabbath and work
goes on from o o'clock until $50
The St. Joseph unit which meet a,
the Knights of Columbus hall scws
every week day from $50 until
o'clock.
An urgent call is issued by Mrs. W.
:. Hansen, chairman OF the hospital
garments department at central Red
TCross work rooms for all finished gar
ments TO be turned in by working units
throughout the city. as il is purposed
TO ship every finished article before the
great moving day some time the latter
part OF next week
AS soon as definite date is known
the hospital garment department will be
installed at 303 West Main street. third
floor Of Mason Little & company build
ing
Hospital garments packed and
shipped yesterday at central Red Cross
work rooms were: Four hundred and
ninety pairs Of paiama suits, 800 under
shirts and 400 bed shirts.
haywood Presbyterian church mem
bers who work in the surgical dress
ingS department of central Red Cross
work rooms every Wednesday comprise
a faithful unit and thci work is worthy
OF mention, Mrs Villa Nee, chairman
Of the department, announced ycStcr-
day
One hundred and forty s-yard rolls
were completed in the surgical dress
lngS Red Cross work at central work
rooms yesterday One box was shipped
Tuesday and another yesterday and a
third will be ready within brief
period
Housed in tents. eating from a mess
furnished from field kitchen are some
Of the experiences which the field Red
Cross nurses are experiencing, this be-
ing especially true OF those nurses as
signed TO travel with the United States
mobile hospital units
Each section of the unit contains a
complete operating room outfit on mo-
tor trucks and accompanied by ten army
nurses. Five OF these sections form a
unit.
Twenty thousand men a month have
patronized the canteen at the training
camp at League Island navy yard since
its opening in January by the national
league for womcn'S service In connec-
tion with the refreshment service a
recrcational cantcen, furnished with
writing tables, paper, pens and ink,
comfortable chairs, a piano and talk
ing machine
Miss Miriam f. Caroy, institutional
librarian of Minnesota. has been ap-
pointed first divisional director OF H.
brary work in camp hospitals with
headquarters at Atlanta, Ga.
Eighty women are now acting as
laboratory assistants, having received
their appointments under the army
medical department More are needed
in pathological and chemical laborator-
les. Those who are attached to base
hospitals will go overseas.
Advanced work in first aid class work
is becoming popular, according to the
future outlook for this branch of Red
Cross activity.
Last W, DR.. Smith lectured on
tuberculosis to his first aid class and
will continue his lectures to the class,
which completes the elementary work
tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock, under
DR.. L. B. Meek.
Pupils who have previously belonged
to classes whose instructor has gone
to the front may enter these advanced
classes and continue their work for
Dr. J. f. HARRISON, Dr. W. J. Jolly and
Dr. N +. Lawson will give lectures on
advanced work If classes of sufficient
size are organized
Eleven classes were finished last
week Another series will begin today,
with the first regular class work be-
ginning this evening at 7:30 in the
Carnegie library north room. This
class is not complete and those who
desire to take first aid should attend
this evening, is the announcement OF
Mrs c. L. Daughterty.
While the day classes in home nurs-