Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-04
RED CROSS HISTORY
Continued From Page Eleven.

Another boy, ill with measles, was
carried from troop train to the hos,
pital by the Captain Of the Canteer
Service, furnished with night-shirtE
and underclothing, and visited otter
by our Red Cross women, who kept
him supplied with chewing gum, can.
dy and cigarettes, during the time he
was in quarantine, about two months
Still another boy was found on 8
troop train, suffering great pain. He
was taken to the hospital, where q
slight, needed operation was perform
ed, and he was ready for duty again
in about two weeks. He, also, was
visited and mothered.
A woman with three children was
found by one of our Canteen Captains
in the station, without money and in
despair, not knowing what to do. Her
husband was in the service, but in
some way she had missed her allot-
ments and allowances, and was try
ing to get to Florida to relatives. She
and her children were fed and given
q room in the hotel near, where they
could rest until their train left. The
Rel Cross bought her ticket, and
some soldiers who We're in The Can
teen. took 10 collection among
theasclyes for her, and she was sent
cn Iar way rejoicing over having
foard friends.
There was a distressing case of two
seanion, who in overstaying their
leave little, found their boat gone
when they got back to their port. Not
knowing what else to do they started
back home, when they were taken off
the train as deserters, and carried to
our county jail to await the return
of their boat. They were not desert
ers Intentionally, and having our SYM
pathy in their trouble were visited
by some of our Red Cross women,
who kept them supplied with candy,
chewing gum and cigarettes.
In the Influenza epidemic our Red
Cross visited and rendered first aid
services to dozens of families, colored
as we'll as white, wherever it was nee
essary furnishing food, milk, bed-lin-
en-, and blankets, and nurses, or care
takers. In four families all the ex-
penses, including those attending two
deaths, were borne by the Red Cross.
No record of the number Of cases
cared for was kept, so it is impossi-
BILE to do more than give covering
general report, but no call was left
unattended to, and no need, unsup-
piled. There were families cared for,
where there were from three to eight
cases i'll at once; when often every
member was quite i'll, some with pneu-
monia which frequently developed
from influenza.
In the Civilian Relief department,
we find the case of the wife of SOL
der, who not having received the al
lotment and alloance due the family
under the War Risk Insurance Law,
was loaned $4,000 by the Home Sec
ton Office, till her affairs could be
Strengthened out, when she promised
to return it.
In connection with the W. o. w., a
nurse was provided for several weeks
for the sick father of one soldier. He
was visited often and supplied with
fruits and delicacies.
One colored tuberculosis case was
visited, the soldiers reinstatement
secured, as was also his admission te
the hospital at Camp Hancock, Ga.
Another soldier, who had been IL
camp only ten days, developed tuoer
culosis. This case is pending, effor
being made to secure compensation
for him, that he may be able to %
away for treatment, his family no
being financially able to afford it TO
him.
Compensation is being sought TO
another soldier suffering from the eft
fects of having been gassed, that h
may be able to go for the treatnlen
he needs.
Many families have been given al
in securing allotments and allowance
that had not been received, and over
nav checks to which families were no
entitled, have been successfully trace
and returned to Washington. Thes
are merely types of the many case
attended to.
General.-While the work done b
the Branches is embraced in the rec
ord of the whole Chapter, it is desire
especially to mention the work dor
financially and materially under tx
supervision of Mr.. league, Chail
man, Miss Dora Butler, Secretar
and Mrs, Baldwin, Of the Hoffma