The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-10


 "I of all army hospitals shows
 that an American woman--
 Mrs. Palma Bradley Lee. formerly of Baltimore and
 New York-operates hos kl pital having the lowest
 mortality rate of all the in- stitutions in France. Although the hospital of Mrs. brad- ,.r Loo at Creil Is for contagious oosss-ond m nearly every patient Is also suYering from wound or from gas hesides-the death rate Is only little more than per cent.
 Having received the bronze and sill yer medals of honor for services for ,a patrie. Mrs. Bradley Lee has now been proposed for the gold medal anu will be decorated with 1t when she takes possesson of her new hospital. French army engineers are building this hospital with capacity of 5OO beds, on the hill just south of this town which Is the principal base and depot of the Army of the North and Centre.
 Nearly 5000 men have passed through Mrs. Bradley Lees hospital during the three years she has had 1t. and the beautiful American woman has been seen at the bedside of every one of the hundred-odd men who have died there, ministering to him until the end.
 Mrs Bradley Lee Is the widow of David Bradley. and a descendant of Gen. Robert E. Lee. She has lived in France for some years, owning hand some chateau near Chantilly. At the beginning of the war she served as nurse and assistant on on army au- tomobile carrying portable X-ray machine.
 In those early days of the great struggle the hospital arrangements Tor wounded had not been organized. and few X.ray machines were availa- pie anywhere near the front. So they were taken from hospitals and labora- tories in Paris mounted in big high powered cars and sent tearing along tue front from place to place, where photographS were made of wounded soldiers.
 The A'ray ambulance squad to which Mrs. Bradley Lee was attached worked along the Flanders front dur mg. the terrible battle of the Yser, "heh The Germans were trying to O'eak through to the Channel ports, anu turing the first battle of Ypres, "neh attempts were made to drive q "euge between the French army and A'e nritlsh expedltionary force.
 wounded by She'll Splinter. i, in November of 1914 Mrs. Bradley es ;"'. was wounded by shell splinter, sas' oehlnd the Yser line, as her K s ,s automobile convoy was approach nps, ms held hospital, to photograph a r. smoer Of Belgian, British and man uen soldiers In whom were frag- ps su.s or bullets and steel. After Mrs. o.sy auey Lee was wounded general s.uer Was issued by the allied armies fron, fins women in Red Cross work nc .a sung so near the fighting area
 'o De under fire.
 on,, 's ,. Bradley Lees wound proved opsoaa asn'' and in January, 1915, she casas eu her hospital for contagious cha.o.re nere only a few miles from her au at Chantilly. Tn tho ,hraa s s,sn, that have elapsed she has not has ' once under her own roof md time. my visited her home a score of new a Year to inspect 1t and obt,in necess.ts "u,nts of clothing and other oulv ols'saries' sa,I She has been to Paris years 'a,i a dozen times in the three the 'S m,a, and was then on business es 'tte mIts taken ministry for health. She has % no, pltsl ,a single day off" since ths ' hos. "s' hry s hs. to its importance as n mill. sloar u ,s. IS one of the hardest s'd,ss,S, towns to ssss.i sss front for any civilian 'S"~s ,o 1o ton saHre pa,~, the war 1t was the, flu ,unc. so Asland, who ,s haa cd~,s passensers from