The New York herald., 1921-02-20
REDCROSS WOMEN
RESPOND TO CALL
OF CITY HOSPITALS
Two Hundred Volunteers
Already Assisting in
Care of Patients.
NEED OF AID GROWING
New York County Chapter
Sends Out IL Units to Meet
Emergency.
NEED OF AID GROWING


Women OF the New York County
Chapter. American Red Cross. once more
sre proving their ever ready efficiency
and tireless devotion In time OF stress.
Two hundred volunteers. many OF
them women well known socially. have
como TO the rescue OF the city hospitals,
which have been overwhelmed with m
creasing numbers Of patients at a time
when they found themselves already in
sore straits because OF the inadequate
supply of professional nurses. The vol
unteers have been organized into units
under the direction OF Mrs. Lucy w
Phister, who was active in the organiza-
ton or tho Red Cross Overseas Service
and who is supervisor OF the hospital
department OF the Auxiliary Service.
New York County Chapter. American
Red Cross. and president OF the Over
seas Service League.
Releasing Professionals.
Again. as In war time. women gently
bred and reared are on duty in fifteen
city hospitals. including Bellevue.
Flower Hospital. St Luke's and Roose-
velt. Clad in their gray working
CARDS emblazoned with the red cross
Of Geneva, they may be seen washing
patients, wheeling them to and from
tho Operating rooms, making beds,
checking laundry and recording the
clincial histories Of cases they are help
Ing care for. BY taking over these and
similar services they arc releasing
scores or professional nurses for more
difficult duties. Among the women
volunteers are many who during the
war received Red Cross training In
homo nursing and who now are quail
fled to do practically all the less tech
nical tasks Of the trained professional
There arc seventeen volunteer units
now In operation, all under the au-
spices OF the New York County Chap
ter. and each unit Is under the direct
command of q chairman. Mrs. Ella
Haggin OF S74 Fifth avenue is chair.
man OF the unit on duty In the Man
haitian Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital,
which Is composed OF women drawn
from the Overseas Service League. Mrs.
Haggin devotes -four afternoons OF each
week personally to this hospital work
Mrs. Frederick Coy Sendall OF / West
Seventy-second street is at the head OF
the Post Graduate unit consisting of
ten women. who assist doctors and
nurses IN the clinics OF the Post Grad
uate Hospital.
Serving as chairman for the Red
Cross unit in Roosevelt Hospital is
Mrs. II. V. G. Fish Of OIL Park avenue.
who is assiduous In her devotion TO her
self imposed duties.
Great Demand Evident.
In st. Mary's Free Hospital for Chill
dren the Red Cross women volunteers
are actually nursing patients in the hos
pital wards. Eight OF them constitute
that unit at present under tho chair
lnanship OF Mrs. Z. c. Zabriskie OF So
West Ninety-third street Yet the de-
rnand was greater than the supply OF
aid. and last Thursday Mrs. Phister re-
ceived word that the institution. unless
1t could get more nurses or nurses
helpers, was in danger OF closing its
doors. Tho demand was met but many
more aids could be used.
Miss Sarah Butler daughter OF DIR.
Nicholas Murray Butler, is chairman OF
the Red Cross unit working in St.
Luke's Hospital and Mrs. Jacob Mosx
of 56g West 15oth street. OF that in the
New York Nursery and Child's Hospital.
Miss Ninetta Cause Of Az West End
avenue, who served over seas with tho
America Fed Cross. heads the volunteer
unit in the New York Inflrmary for
Women and Children, and Mrs. Walter
Graeme Eliot Of IA East End avenue
that In the Yorkville District Dispensary,
which Is a FREQ dental clinic for chill
dren.
In the Broad Street Hospital. which
dH such valiant service at tho time OF
tho Wall Street explosion. Is stationed
4 Red Cross unit, under the leadership
of Mrs. j. G. Kerr Of Is East Fifty
fourth street. while Mrs. c. II. Layton
Of 132 East Nineteenth street commands
q unit whose duty 1t is to look after the
respectively in Christadora House.
Greenwich House and AIorningside
House, all OF which are under tho direc-
tion OF the New York County Chapter.
In Bellevue there are two Red Cross
units now at work. One. under the
ci,airrnanship OF Miss Emily l. Norrie
of 145 East Thirty-hfth street. is made
tIp OF volunteers, who serve as clinical
isecretaries and assistants, while the
other. under the command OF Miss Annie
s. wiltse or 81 Central Park West. COM
prises young women volunteers who do
work In tho hospital wards.
More Volunteers Needed.
The Now York Chapters four produce
tlcn workrooms, one OF which is located
IN the Yale Club, also have been re-
opened for service during the present
emergency period, and IN these scores OF
women are busy, as they were during
tho days or the war. making surgical
dressings. Units are being formed for
doing this kind OF work In the hospitals
also. Such units already are operating
IN Roosevelt. Flower Hospital. tho New
York Nursery and Chiid's Hospital and
other institutions.
Although the response mad. by New
York women has been worthy OF their
splendid record. appeals for more volun-
feer workers are constantly being re-
ceived BY the County Chapter. American
Rel Cross, from hospitals which are not
yot adequately supplied. Mrs. Phster.
who is directing mis- movement with all
the energy she put into her war time
work overseas, told a reporter for THE
NEW YORK HERALD that ten times as
many volunteers could be profitably used
40 there are hospitals In the city, and
ihero are more than 100. She asks that
women who can give part or full time to
, his service communicate with the County
Chapter headquarters. 119 West Fortieth
street. There Is need not only for
women qualified 70 help In the clinic and
hospital wards. but also for those willing
10 help make surgical supplies and gar
mcnts as members Of units stationed in
ne hospitals.
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