The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 2, April 1909)American National Red Cross
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The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 2, April 1909)
American National Red Cross
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Several beds have been endowed. Adjacent to the main building, yet
surrounded by larger grounds of its own, stands the maternity house, in
which there are also nurses’ rooms and headquarters for the district
nurse, one of whose duties is to hold classes for anyone interested in
“first aid.”
It seems as if Mrs. Reid had thought of every detail possible to make the
gift as near perfect as a mortal may, even providing one of the purest
specimens of radium. It is her earnest hope that similar hospitals will
be erected throughout the country, so that in times of emergency they may
be ready for immediate use for Red Cross purposes.
The affairs of the Hospital are administered by a Board of representative
women consisting of Mrs. Ansel M. Easton, Vice-President; Mrs. Charles E.
Green, Treasurer; Mrs. Lewis P. Hobart, Secretary; Mrs. Ernest Coxhead,
Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. A. M. Easton, Mrs. William H. Crocker,
Miss Jennie Crocker, Mrs. Frances C. Carolan, Mrs. Walter Martin, Mrs.
Laurence Irving Scott, Mrs. William Tubbs, Mrs. E. D. Beylard, Mrs. N.
B. W. Gallwey, Mrs. J. D. Grant, Mrs. Mountford Wilson, Mrs. James Otis
Lincoln. The president is Rev. N. B. W. Gallwey, whose deep interest and
able leadership have been of inestimable assistance.
[Illustration: OPERATING-ROOM OF HOSPITAL.]
Mrs. Reid is Honorary President of the Board, and as perhaps it can be
said of no other person living, this modest, generous donor has in the
completion of this work finished a golden circle around the world of love
and service for suffering humanity, for the Philippines, Paris, London,
New York and California now share in the ministering care which she has
provided.
THE STORY OF THE RED CROSS
WAR’S AFTERMATH.
Improvised hospitals were organized in every straggling village, but by
far the largest number of wounded were brought to Castiglione. There
was an almost interminable procession of wagons, packed with officers
and soldiers—cavalrymen, infantry, artillery—all battered and bleeding,
covered with dirt and dust and blood, each jolt of the carts adding to
their suffering. Many died on the way, their bodies being transferred
from the wagons to the roadside, and left there for others to bury. Such
were reported as “missing.”
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