The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-22
RED CROSS TELLS OF
WORK IN U. S..ARMY
Twenty-four Hospitals and ~
Convalescent Homes Oper-
ated in France.
100 /CANTEENS OPENED
Is, 1868 Men Served With
6,153,595 Meals and 49,
701,850 Drinks.
Special Despetch to TnE sux.


WASHINGTON, Oct. 81. - The War
Council of the American Red Cross made
to-day its report to the American people
of the work done with the American
army.
Twenty-four military hospitals, twelve
convalescent homes. eight infrmaries
and thirteen dispensaries were operated
by the Red Cross in France to assist the
medical service of the United States
Army.
Most OF these hospitals were con-
Quoted for sick and wounded American
soldiers. but French and other allied
troops were also admitted. One hospi-
tai was operated for the American navy
one for Czecho-Slovak troops. and one
for army auxiliary personnel, such as
the Y. NJ, c. A. Knights of Columbus
and the Red Gross. and one for neigh
boring civilian personnel whose health
had become menace to American sol
diers
Emergencies had to be met. A COM
plete 1000 bed hospital was made ready
in forty-cight hours. requests for every
thing from surgical supplies to portabla
laundries had to be carried out.
An aspect of the standard of effec-
tiveness of the organization was pre-
sented briefly in the report:
"A request for $4,000 articles OF va
rious kinds, including medical supplies,
! food and comforts. required for immedi-
ate use on the American front was re
ceived in Paris at p. NJ The goods
were assembled from three warehouses
and delivered at the front at midnight
ION one day. at the start of the ST.
htnl 1NN .s.axv 4
gical dressings were shipped to the
i American front"
Red Cross convalescent homes cared
for 1852 American soldiers who no
longer required active hospital care but
| were not yet recovered from sickness or
wounds.
During the period covered by the re-
port 52.S09 cases were treated in the in
frmaries and 12S.736 by the dispense
ries. Emergency depots OF hospital sup
plies were always held by the Red Cross
at the call of the army. Nitrous oxide, a
new and improved anasthetic, valuable
in cases where patients were too weak
to take ether, was supplied the army en-
tirely by the Red Cross.
| Possibly the best known and most ap-
| preclated work done by the Red Cross
| and remembered by every member OF
| the A. f. F.. whether he fought the wal
| in the s. O. S. or on any part of the
| front from the Vosges to the Somme
was that done by the Red Cross can
teens, However, the report merely states
| that for twenty months ended February
| IS, 1919, 100 canteens were operated
| 15,376,224 men served. 6,153,595 meals
provided and 12,701, $50 drinks furnished
| The chocolate, cigarettes. hot drinks
and what not handed out free to troops
| under fire or sitting in their tin hats or
a muddy road coming out are summed
up like this:
| There were twenty-five of these can
teens and six outposts through which
5.7SS,110 hot drinks were given away
Seventy-five cante-ns on the railroa
lines connecting French cities with the
front added to the comfort of the Amer.
lean and allied troops in transit.
| Financial troubles of the soldiers. gift;
for the soldiers and a home communica
ton service were taken care Of by tbs
Red Cross Seventy thousand graves
were photographed. Prisoners were aided
with food and clothing.
More than a million Americans passed
through Great Britain. There the Rec
Cross had thirteen hospitals and 5000
patients were treated in its institutions
out of the $4,000 American patients wht
were in hospitals in Great Britain.
The Red Cross in Great Britain cared
for shipwrecked persons. The epidemic
| OF influenza was Combated
Italy and Switzerland received the at
tention of the Red Cross. -Four hospi
tails were operated for Americans ii
Italy In Switzerland most of the worl
was to aid American soldiers in German
prison camps. Food and clothing wer,
distributed to $500 American and $40
italian prisoners repatriated through
Switzerland.