Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-04-12
Descendant of Robert
E. Lee Has Famous
Hospital in France ::

44CSptLdL az lcse~~ AS
r---1 HE publication of statistics
of all army hospitals shows
Isl that an American woman
Mrs. Zalma Bradley Lee,
formerly of Baltimore and
New York-operates hos
s"S~sss pital having the lowest
mortality rate of all the in
sdtutions in France.
Although the hospital Of Mrs. Brad
Nv Lee at Creil Is for contagious
esses-and nearly every patient is also
suffering from a wound or from gas
besides death rate is only little
aere than 3 per cent.
Having received the bronze and sill
yer medals OF honor for services for
Il Pstrle, Mrs. Bradley Lee has now
seen proposed for the gold medal and
Eul he decorated with it when she
takes possession of her new hospital.
french army engineers are building
ss,is hospital with a capacity Of 500
BIRDS. on the hill just south of this
sewn. 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
sinr,ng the three years she has had It.
aud the beautiful American woman
mas been seen at the bedside of every
sae of the hundged-odd men who have
died there, ministering 10 him until
toe end.
Mrs. Bradley Lee is the widow Of
David Bradley, and a descendant of
Gen Robert f. 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 an army au-
tmnobile carrying portable X-ray
uachine.
IN those early days OF the great
struggle the hospital arrangements
sor wounded had not been organized,
sud few X-ray machines were ayaila-
Die anywhere near the front. SO they
we're taken from hospitals and labora-
tories In Paris. mounted in big high
powered cars and sent tearing along
the front from place 10 place, where
photographs were made of wounded
soldiers.
The X-ray ambulance squad to
which Mrs. Bradley Lee was attached
worked along the Flanders front dur
Ing the terrible battle of the User
when the Germans were trying TO
heeak through to the Channel ports,
end during the first battle of Ypres,
when attempts were made to drive a
wedge between the French army and
the British expeditionary force.
Wounded by Shell Splinter.
In November of 1914 Mrs. Bradley
Lee was wounded by a shell spin err.
just behind the User line, as her X
ray automobile convoy was approach
ing field hospital, to photograph a
number Of Belgian, British and
French soldiers in whom were feag-
ments of bullets and steel. After Mrs.
Bredlay Lee was wounded general
"rder was issued by the allied armies
prohibiting women in Red Cross work
from going so near the fighting area
ss to be under fire.
Mrs Bradley Lees wound proved
ealy slight aud in January, 1915, she
opened her hospital for contagious
cases here, only a few miles from her
ehatean at Chantilly. In the three
years that have elapsed she has not
iSiept once under her own roof, and
mas only visited her home a score of
itimes year to Inspect it and obtain
NEW outfits of clothing and other
necessaries. She has been to Paris
lealy half a dozen times in the three
years. and was then on business with
the ministry for health. Shs has not
taken single day off, since the hos
pital was opened.
OwIng TO its Importance as mill
tary base and army Headquarters.
teeil is one of the hardest towns
'aiong the front for any civilian to go
TO. Before the war it was the June
tien point where passengers from
England, who had come down by rail
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