Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-04-08


in Brookline, in cooperation with the
Division Department of Nursing, has
enrolled the nurses and will direct
their work.
The surgeons of the Unit are DR.
Hugh Williams and Dr. Franklin G.
Balch; the assistant surgeons are Dr.
James M. Gallison and Dr. A. W. Reg
gio; the physicians are DR.. William W.
Howell and DR.. G. H. Lawrence.
Alternates are enrolled to take the
places of these men if 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. Harry E. Chase,
Mary Cullen, Edna B. Davis Ellen
Donahue, Margaret E. Doyle, Evelyn
Fletcher, Minnie Furnish, Marie Cir
rOuX, Jennie Hanson, Helen Jordan,
Katherine Kingman, Laura LouGhery,
Mary MOnch, Edith Monroe, COInelia
Macpherson, Ann Rofway, l.. Bernice
Sprague, Dorothy Smith, Robina
Smith, Fife Shogren, Ruth Sheldon,
Suth 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 respon
sible for the medical social service
workers.
Supply Dept. Prepared Equipment
Llewellyn Rowland of Waldo
Brothers & Bond Company of Boston,
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. E. Warehouse is Director
and F. 8. Bannon 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 it's De-
partment of Civilian Relief, and Roy
M. Cushman is Director OF this
Department in the New England Divi-
sion.
Complete instructions for getting
out the Unit, together with a list
Of names Of all the officers 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 in the
name Of each ono Of the principal
Division officers to permit getting the
equipment out OF the Army Base
warehouse, are on nle at Division
headquarters
Mattresses Fill 20 BIG Cases.
Tho equipment for the Unit in
Guides 200 cots, 100 mattresses, $50
blankets, 100 folding bedside tables,
80 folding chairs, II stretches and 30
cases Of medical, surgical and hospital
supplies and table aud kitchen equip
meat Tho inventory Of the equip
Ae.k csvs1s some II typed pages.
ne 100 mattresses are packed tn
% wooden cAsos nix feet hong, four
feet wide and four feet deep, ave mat
treases In . box. fhess Is . cover for
e~ory Mattress. Tho boxes arc lined
with heavy paper and tho mattresses
are spstHklsd With eamphor dust The
covers Arc fastened with heavy pad
loeks. 4 master KY unloeks all these
padloeks, and, in tact, al The other
containers In the unit.
In Is smaller cases are packed $50
blankets. Is to . box. Twenty crates
contain 200 folding cots. 100 folding
and 80 folding chairs in five crates.
The miscellaneous supplies, so-called
and there are several hundred OF
them are contained in 30 standard
packing cases. A dozen stretchers
are in three canvas bags.
All these containers are painted
dark olive green and all numbered.
Each Is marked with the emblem Of
the Red Cross and labelled: "Ameri-
can Red Cross Mobile Disaster Unit.
New England Division" Each case OF
miscellaneous supplies has attached
TO the inside of the cover a copper
plate into which will be slipped a
card, under celluioid cover. with
list Of the contents of the case.
Ward Room Equipment
Besides the cots, mattresses, blan-
kets, chairs and bedside tables, there
is the ward room equipment which in
cludes such items as 4S9 bathrobes,
1O14 pajamas, 500 pillow cases, TOO
linen sheets, 400 draw sheets, AT
pairs OF slippers. assorted sizes, 1919
pairs OF stockings and towels, napkins
and face cloths. There are also sup
plies for babies and children-diapers,
bath robes, pajamas, slippers.
In the operating room equipment
are folding operating tables, tourni-
quets. surgical gloves, choloroform