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: THE ADANA RELIEF COMMITTEE IN SESSION. MR. CHAMBERS ON
LEFT AND MAJOR DOUGHTY-WYLIE ON RIGHT.]
The Turkish military doctors were continuing the clinic at their
pharmacy near the measles camp. There were thus in operation
four hospitals—English, American, German, and French; four
dispensaries—Turkish, Armenian, French, and American, and five daily
clinics—English, French, Turkish, and two Armenian. The staff of workers
included 25 doctors—English, American, French, Greek, Syrian, Turkish,
and Armenian; 11 trained nurses—English, German, and Armenians; 8
first-aid men from the English and American ships, and 12 Armenian
assistants. In all this work one of the pleasantest features was its
international character. No friction or international jealousies were
seen. Before the great need and common aim, distinctions of race or
nation fell away, and one helped another with a single desire for
service. While I have spoken of the surgical hospitals as English and
the medical hospital as American, the distinction is only in name, for
the English and Americans have worked together indiscriminately in both
hospitals.
The provision for the medical wants of the refugees was sufficient, and
it seemed only a question of time until the emergency relief work should
grade off into the permanent medical work required for 20,000 homeless
and penniless people. When the time for this change should come, it was
desired that some permanent good might remain as a memorial of the relief
work in Adana, and it was planned that the patients remaining from the
American Red Cross Hospital, together with whatever hospital equipment
might have been accumulated, should be left to the care of the American
Mission in a large building belonging to them, which is now being altered
for use as a hospital. There is no hospital in Adana, except one poorly
equipped and totally inadequate charity institution, and the field of
usefulness for a good hospital would be great. There could be no fitter
legacy of permanent help to the Adana sufferers than the founding among
them of such a permanent hospital.
The evacuation of the camps, forced by the government on all those who
had remaining houses or vineyards, while it worked hardship in some
cases, was a necessary precaution for the avoidance of epidemics, and at
this time the campers had been reduced by about one-half.
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