The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 4, October 1909)American National Red Cross
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The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 4, October 1909)
American National Red Cross
American National Red Cross -- Periodicals; Red Cross and Red Crescent -- Periodicals
[Illustration: AMERICAN RED CROSS HOSPITAL IN CHARGE OF SURGEON MILLER,
OF U. S. S. “NORTH CAROLINA,” ASSISTED BY THREE HOSPITAL CORPS MEN AND
LADIES.]
Two days after the establishment of the camp an attempt was made to
separate the families with measles, and between 300 and 400 of such were
collected by Commander Carver in an orange grove, a quarter of a mile
away from the main Yenemahalle camp.
Tuesday, May 4, eight days after the second massacre, the German factory
was cleared of its 5,000 inmates, and these were located part in an open
camp and part in adjoining houses, which, although rented by Armenians,
had been spared the general destruction because belonging to Turkish
owners. This location was nearly half a mile distant from the Yenemahalle
camp. The people here were fed by German funds, and the place was known
as the “German camp.”
At this time the allowance of rations was doubled in the large
Yenemahalle camp, so that from this time on the people had sufficient
food. But the bread from the emergency bakeries of the first two weeks
was often poorly baked, and many people had diarrhœa, approaching
dysentery, from eating the raw dough that for many was the only food
available during the first two days in the factory. Tuesday night and
Wednesday 500 blankets and 100 quilts, sent from Beirut, were distributed
to the most destitute of the sufferers in the Yenemahalle and measles
camp, but when half of the 13,000 refugees were without covering for
the night, it can be understood that the 600 pieces were woefully
insufficient to go around. A week later 300 more blankets were received
and distributed.
[Illustration: GERMAN HOSPITAL IN GROUNDS OF GERMAN FACTORY WITH
KAISERSWERTH DEACONESSES.]
On this Tuesday a request made to Ashraf Bey, municipal sanitary
inspector, for aid in medical inspection was answered by the sending of
two Turkish doctors and two pharmacists, who, the following day, opened
an emergency pharmacy near the measles camp.
_Red Cross Sends Medical Aid._
Immediately after the second massacre, a call for medical assistance was
sent by the Adana Relief Committee to Beirut, where a Red Cross Relief
Committee had been constituted by Hon. G. Bie Ravndal, American Consul
General; Mr. E. G. Freyer, of the American Presbyterian Mission, and Dr.
Geo. E. Post, of the Syrian Protestant College. This was answered by
sending an Armenian physician, Dr. Armadouni, on Wednesday, April 28,
who, on arrival at Mersine, found that it was impracticable to proceed
farther on account of government restrictions of Armenians. Surgical
supplies sent with him were forwarded to Adana, and he returned to Beirut.
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