The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 1, January 1909)American National Red Cross
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The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 1, January 1909)
American National Red Cross
American National Red Cross -- Periodicals; Red Cross and Red Crescent -- Periodicals
At the time of the State fair and Regular Army encampment, immediately
following, the Branch maintained a hospital relief tent at the fair
grounds in charge of Mr. Kilmaurs W. King; second Vice-President;
Christ’s Hospital generously provided the tent; also the physicians,
Doctors Kiene and Bowen, who made daily visits and the nurses who
interchanged regularly and furnished much of the equipment. About fifty
cases were taken care of in this Red Cross Emergency Hospital.
The Branch has also undertaken to assist in the crusade against
tuberculosis. The following State officers were elected November 21st.:
President, Governor E. W. Hoch; Vice-Presidents, P. H. Coney, K. W. King,
Rev. Dr. C. M. Sheldon; Secretary, Mrs. B. B. Smyth; Treasurer, John R.
Mulvane; Delegates to the National Meeting, Hon. D. R. Anthony and Hon.
Charles F. Scott
MASSACHUSETTS.
At the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Branch, the following officers
were elected: President, Dr. Herbert L. Burrell; Vice-Presidents, Hon.
W. Murray Crane, Dr. Henry P. Walcott, Hon. Charles C. Washburn, Justice
W. C. Loring, Dr. Arthur T. Cabot and Dr. J. F. A. Adams; Executive
Committee, Lieutenant Governor Eben S. Draper, Most Rev. W. H. O’Connell,
Dr. Alfreda B. Withington, Gardiner M. Lane, Katherine P. Loring;
Treasurer, Gardiner M. Lane; Secretary, Katherine P. Loring; Directors,
Mrs. Zenas Crane, General Francis H. Appleton, Dr. Homer Gage, George
D. Pratt, Dr. Cheever, Richard Saltonstall; Delegates to the National
Convention in Washington, Miss Amy Alexander, Mrs. W. Murray Crane.
The Stamp Committee, under the chairmanship of Mr. Walter E. Kreusi, has
done very active work. The Berkshire and Hampton County Divisions have
both interested themselves in the sale of the stamp for their local
tuberculosis work. The latter Division at its annual meeting elected the
following officers: President, George Dwight Pratt; Vice-Presidents,
Richard Hooker, Miss Harriet Bacon, of Longmeadow, and Mrs. Charles
Blaisdell, of Chicopee; Treasurer, Ralph P. Alden; Secretary, Miss Amy B.
Alexander.
At the same meeting the Division voted to make an appropriation from
its local treasury of $50 towards the salary of a visiting nurse for
tuberculosis cases.
OHIO.
The Cleveland Division, by far the most active in the State, at its
annual meeting appointed a most active and capable stamp committee
of which Mr. R. L. Ireland was chairman, and a First Aid Instruction
Committee of which Dr. Crile is chairman for the providing of First Aid
Courses to the police of the city. The Division ordered a number of the
First Aid Text Books for the use of these classes.
RHODE ISLAND.
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