The Missouri herald., 1922-11-10
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Southwestern DIVISION
LOOKS AFTER SOLDIERS
Assist, Care For and Entertain
Men in Camps and Hospitals.

Approximately 10000 abe-bodied
soldiers and more than 5000 invalided
soldiers and ex-service men in the hos
pitals in the United States have been
assisted in obtaining compensation and
In the solution of their other problems
to Il. s. Transue, director of war serv-
Ice of the Southwestern Division of
the American Red Cross.
"Red Cross workers III the camps
and hospitals in the Southwestern Di-
vision are rendering much-needed serv-
Ice to the men who are in the army at
the present time," said Transue.
"ThOse service men undergoing hospi-
tai treatment for one cause or another
and eX-service men who have been
hospitalized both in the army hospitals
and hospitals operated by the Vet
In need of this service.
THE army camps and hospitals in
this division covered by Red Cross
workers are located at Jefferson Bar
racks. st. Louis, Mo-; Camp Travis,
Tex, including Ft. Sam Houston Hos
piia1; Ft. Bliss, Tex, including VIM.
A. Beaumont General Hospital; FIT.
IenvenwOrth, Kan, including the u.
S. Disciplinary barracks at that point !;
TT. Riley, Kan; Ft. Sill, Okla; FitZ-
simOns General Hospital, FitzsimOns,
Colo; Camp Furlong, New Mex. !;
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and the Army and Navy General Hos
pilal at Hot Springs. Ark.
"The Veterans Bureau hospitals
served by the Southwestern Division
Of the Red Cross are: U. s. Veterans
Hospital No. 30, st. Louis. Mo-; Vet
erans Hospital No. %, Logan, Tex. /;
U. s. Veterans Hospital No. 55, Ft.
Bayard, n. Mex; L. S. Veterans Hos
pital No. 81, Kansas City, Mo-; U. s.
Veterans Hospital No. 7S, N. Little
Rock, Ark, and U. S. Veterans Hos
pital No. 80, Fort Lyon. Colo.
"Of the 5000 patients, approximate
ly rs per cent are undergoing treat
ment for tuberculosis and mental dis
eases. This makes the work one Of
considerable difficulty, inasmuch as it
is ofttimes renl problem to provide
prOpar recreation or to connect the
mans present condition with his serv-
lce.
There are three phases of the Red
Cross program for service and ex-
service men in the camps and hos
tin,.
Me dicaI Social Service. Our regular
camp service program consists of what
Is known as home service work. This
! calls for cooperation between the Red
Cross worker I'm the camp and govern
mental and chapter agencies in taking
care of problems of the enlisted man
In the army. Difficulties relating to
allOtments, allowances, insurance, COM
pensatiOn, state bonus, travel pay, etc,
are all brought to the Red Cross by
the enlisted man. The Red Cross also
contacts the families through the chap
ters in case of distress, sickness or
death.
"rhe recreatonal and entertainment
program in the hospital brings movies
for the boys; amateur theatricals.
dances, parties and those many other
things that the sick man longs for, but
which he could not have We're it not
for the Red Cross.
THE Red Cross medical and social
service program calls for study of the
individual needs of the man, to help him
in solving his personal and family diff
culties. to aid him by material assist
ance when he is without resources, to
nid the doctor in his treatment Of the
patient by obtaining former medical
or social histories which may lead to
MI accurate diagnosis and to interpret
the whole situation to the Red Cross
Chapter home service worker in the
mans home community, so that not
only will the proper attention be given
to the family during the mans alb
sence, but he may be free in mind and
thus derive maximum amount of
benefit from his treatment.
"In carrying out our work for the
ex-service man undergoing hospltali-
zation the Red Cross has constantly
borne in mind that the great object
has been to play the right part in the
period of adjustment through which
the ex-service man must safely pass II
he is to continue To he a good citizen
This work has required personnel who
are not only sympathetic in the deal
ing with patients but who must have
an understanding of the social prob
lens of civil life.
Just as ii has always been rec0g'
nized that the time spent in gov.
ernment hospital is only brief epi
Sode in the life of a patient, SO has II
been recognized that the activities OF
the hospital worker are only part OF
the responsibility of the Red Cross tC
the ex-service man; that the hospital
work can be successful only us it cor