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 II Units to Meet
Emergency.
NEED OF AID GROWING

Women Of the New York County
Chapter. American Red Cross. once more
are proving their ever ready efficiency
and tireless devotion in time of stress.
Two hundred volunteers. many Of
them women we'll known socially. have
come to the rescue of the city hospitals,
which have been overwhelmed with IN
ereasing numbers of patients at time
when they found themselves already in
sore straits because of the inadequate
supply Of professional nurses. The VOL
untcers have been organized into units
under the direction of Mrs. Lucy w.
Phister. who was active In the organiza-
tion of the Red Cross Overseas Service
and who is supervisor OF the hospital
department of tho 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
>&oSPtS~AAos AIiSluOlIlB bellcYue,
Flower Hospital. st. Lukes and Roose-
Welt. Clad in their gray working
garbs emblazoned with the red cross
Or Geneva, they may be seen washing
patients, wheeling them to and from
the operating rooms, making beds,
cnecking laundry and recording the
clincial histories Of cases they are help
ing care for. BY taking over these and
similar services they are releasing
scores OF professional nurses for more
difficult duties. Among the women
volunteers are many. who during the
war received Red Cross training in
home nursing and who now are quail
ined to do practically all the less tech
nical tasks of the trained professional.
There are 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 chairman. Mrs. Ella
Haggin of STA 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
4 tho 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. c. 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
hn pad rvo VrIn0faerq
are actually nursing patients In the hos
pital wards. Eight OF them constitute
that unit at present under the chair
manship Of Mrs. L. c. ZabrislSie OF 36
West Ninety-third street. Yet the de-
r,and was greater than the supply of
aid. and last Thursday Mrs. Phister re-
ceived word that the institution, unless
IL could get more nurses or nurses
helpers. was In danger Of closing its
doors. The demand was met, but many
more aids could be used.
Miss Sarah Butler, daughter OF DR..
Nicholas Murray Butler. is chairman of
the Red Cross unit working in st.
Lule's Hospital. and Mrs. Jacob Moss
OF $50 West 15oth street, of that in the
New York Nursery and Child's Hospital.
Miss Minetta Cause of 472 West End
avenue, who served over seas with the
America Red Cross. heads the volunteer
unit in the New York Infirmary for
Women and Children. and Mrs. Walter
Graeme Eliot of 144 East End avenue
that In the Yorkville District Dispensary.
which Ia q free dental clinic for chill
dren.
In the Broad Street Hospital, which
did such valiant service at the time OF
the Wall Street explosion. is stationed
a Red Cross unit, under the leadership
az Mrs. j. c. Kerr of 10 East Fifty
fourth street, while Mrs. G. II. Layton
Of 132 East Nineteenth street commands
u unit whose duty It is to look after the
Red Cross child health centres. located
respectively in Christadora House,
Greenwich House and Morningside
House, all OF which are under the direc~
tion of the New York County Chapter.
In Bellevue there are two Red Cross
units now at work. One, under the
chairrnanship OF Miss Emily l. Eorrie
Of 145 East Thirty-ffth street. is made
up OF volunteers, who servo as clinical
lsecretaries and assistants. while tho
other, under the command of Miss Annie
S. Wiltse Of 81 Central Park West. conf
prises young women volunteers who do
work in the hospital wards.
More Volunteers Needed.
The New York Chapters four produc-
lion WOrhTOOHS, Oflo Dh ~ AVSaeOe
in the Yale Club, also have been re-
opened for service during the present
emergency period, and in thcso scores OF
women are busy, as they were during
the days OF 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 Chlld's Hospital and
other institutions.
Although the response made by New
York women has been worthy OF their
, splendid record, appeals for more volun-
teer workers arc constantly being re-
csived by the County Chapter, American
Tel Cross. from hospitals which are not
yet adequately supplied. Mrs. Phister.
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
there are more than 100. She asks that
women who can give part or full time to
this service communicate with the County
Chapter headquarters. 1ie West Fortieth
street. There Is need not only for
women qualified to help IN the clinic and
hospital wards, but also for those willing
20 help make surgical supplies and gar
laAnts as members OF units stationed IN
the hospitals.