With the Doughboy in France: A Few Chapters of an American EffortHungerford, Edward
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With the Doughboy in France: A Few Chapters of an American Effort
Hungerford, Edward
American National Red Cross; World War, 1914-1918 -- United States
_June 3_: 12 antitoxin syringes for anti-tetanus serum, 200
packages of absorbent cotton, 30 feet of glass tubing, and 25
operating gowns and caps.
_June 4_: 250 single blankets, 100 litters, 5,000 anti-tetanus
serum, 2 autoclaves, 4 thermometers for autoclaves, 50 wash
cloths, 1,000 pairs of socks, 50 towels, and 200 comfort kits.
_June 6_: 50 clinical thermometers, 2,000 temperature charts, 1
gallon of green soap, 36 bottles of ammonia, 5,000 Greeley
units, 20 syringes, 15 liters of Lysol, 20 chart holders, 100
rubber sheets, 2 small instrument sterilizers, 500 nightshirts,
500 blankets, 1,000 sheets, 500 forks and spoons, 100 bedside
tables, 100 folding chairs, 50 hot-water bottles, 36 maps, 50
hand basins, 20 bolts of gauze, 10 bolts of muslin, 100 beds,
and 100 mattresses.
_June 7_: 200 litters, 250 blankets, 100 rolls of cotton, 200
rolls of gauze, 144 rubber gloves, 100 operating gowns and caps,
96 tubes of catgut, 500 Carrel pads, 100 gowns for nurses, 20
sterile water containers, 5,000 folded gauze compresses, and
5,000 small sponges.
I rather feel that this record of a single week of the demands of one
Division upon our Red Cross will show quite enough the burden which it
was forced to bear; and bore most joyously as a part of the opportunity
for service which was given unto it in France. In a single day and night
during that same great offensive of 1918, 128 different
requisitions--each comprising from one to fifty items--were started out
on the road from Paris; while on the twentieth of August of that same
summer--the day which marked the beginning of the St. Mihiel
drive--120,000 front-line emergency parcels and more than fifteen
carloads of surgical dressings were shipped to the scene of activity.
From the Paris headquarters of the Red Cross alone, supplies were
shipped that summer to sixty-six base hospitals, two naval-base
hospitals, fifty-four camp hospitals, twenty-one convalescent
hospitals, twenty army divisions, seven evacuation hospitals, nine field
hospitals, eight hospital centers, nine mobile hospitals, six medical
supply depots, and the central medical department laboratory--all of the
United States Army in France. This great record does not, of course,
include the supplies sent to the Red Cross's own hospitals or those sent
to the A. E. F. hospitals from the nine zone headquarters of the
American Red Cross; nor even emergency supplies sent to eighteen
detached American Army units, far away from their bases of supplies. In
a single month and from one warehouse, our Red Cross made the following
shipments to formations operated entirely by our army: 77,101 surgical
instruments, 2,820 beds and cots, 24,733,126 surgical dressings, and
15,300 pounds of drugs.
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