The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-06-16

OF the New England Baptist Hospita
in Brookline, in cooperation with the
Division Department OF Nursing, has
their work.
The surgeons Of the Unit are Dr.
Hugh Williams and DR.. Franklin O.
Balch; the assistant surgeons are Dr.
James NJ. Gallison and Dr.. A. W. Reg
gio; the physicians are DR.. William w
Howell and DR.. &. H. LawT?nca.
Alternates are enrolled to take the
places of these men il they are unable
to go.
The nurses enrolled are: Irma Al
bee, Mrs. Maud Andrews Leona A.
Bent, Jessie Bentley, Zena Christie,
Florence Clark, Mrs. HAIRY f. Chase,
Donahue, Margaret L. Doyle, Evelyn
Fletcher Minnie Kurdish, Marie Cir
roux. Jennie Hanson, Helen Jordan
Katherine Kingman, Laura Loushery
Mary Monch, Edth Monroe, Cornelia
Macpherson, Ann Rofway, l.. Bernioe
Sprague, Dorothy Smith. Ro5ina
Smith, Etiie ShoCren. Ruth Sheldon,
Ruth S. Tyler, Katherine Wiseman,
Frances Murray. Margaret Anderson,
of the Infants Hospital. Boston is
dietitian.
Miss Katherine Mcmahon, of the
New England Division headquarters,
and Miss Ida Cannon will be resyon
s!ble for the med cal social service
workers.
Supply Dept. Prepared Equipment
Llewellyn Rowland of Waldo
is business manager of the Unit. and
the assistant business managers are
Samuel H. Wolcott, OF the State
Street Trust Company, and Elton
Clark, Of Clark, Payson & Company,
OF Boston.
The equipment for the Unit was
prepared under the direction OF the
Division Department OF Supplies, of
which H. f. Waterhouse is Director,
and f. S. BanEon OF the Department
of Supplies is the quartermaster OF
the Unit and is actively in charge OF
the equipment.
Red Cross disaster relief work
comes under the direction OF its De
partment OF Civilian Relief, and Roy
NJ. Cushman is Director OF this
Department in the New England Divi-
sion.
Complete instructions for getting
out the Unit, together with LIST
OF names Of all the off ceHs connected
with it, list OF every article in the
equipment, master keys that Will open
all the cases in which the equipment
is packed and orders made out il the
name of each one Of the principal
Division officers to permit getting the
equipment out of the Army Base
are on file at Division
headquarters.
Mattresses Fill 20 Big Cases.
The equipment for the Unit in
cludes 200 cots, 200 mattresses, GO
blankets. 100 folding bedside tables,
80 folding chairs, ~ stretches and 80
cases Of medical, surgical and hospital
supplies and table and kitchen equip
ment. The inventory OF the equip
nent covers some IA typed pages.
The 200 mattresses are packed in
10 wooden cases six feet long. four
feet wide and four feet deep, five mat
In, n Thara &c fnr
avery mattress The boxes are lined
With heavy paper and the mattresses
are. sprinkled with camphor dust. The
lovers are fastened with heavy pad
ocks A master key unlocks all these
)adlocks. and, in fact, all the other
containers in the unit.
In 26 smaller cases are packed ESQ
blankets, % to a box. Twenty crates
contain 200 folding cots, 100 folding
bedside tables are packed in 10 crates,
md so folding chairs in five crates.
rhe miscellaneous supplies. called
and there are several hundred OF
hem are contained in so standard +
packing cases. A dozen stretchers
Ire Ill tHTee CANVAS DdSS.
All these containers are painted
lark olive green and all numbered.
each is marked viii. the emblem OF
he Red Cross and labelled: "Ameri
AN Red Cross Mobile Disaster Unit.
Jew England Division" Each case OF
supplies has attached
o the inside of the cover a copper
,late into which will be slipped a
ard, under celluloid cover, with a
ist of the contents of the case.
Ward Room Equipment
Besides the cots. mattresses, blan-
,ets, chairs and bedside tables, there
5 the ward room equipment, which in
ludes such items as 4S9 bathrobes,
Ola paiamas, 500 pillow cases. 700
men sheets 400 draw sheets, Az
,airs OF slippers, assorted sizes. 1913
'airs of stockings and towels, napkins
nd face cloths. There are also sup
lies for babies and children-diapers,
ath robes, pajamas. slippers
In the operating room equipment
re folding operating tables, tourni-
uets, surgical gloves, chooroform
and inhalers, variousa kinds
I bandages, catheters, sings and
lany other items. Several hundred
ollars worth OF drugs, with the va
u IN nf on ri IN