The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 12, 1898, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCI CO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 21 A == 7 mnumm:{l UDIEIIIAUIRIDION P \ |- ® Q0000000000000 09000000000000PCVPVIVREGOOVCOOOS RED CROSS LADIES Rl | AWAITING THE ARRIVAL OF THE VOLUNSEERD S 0000000000 0OODODO0O0OD0OD0O0O0O0O0O0O00OO0O0OO 00006000060 C0O0O0CODOOOODO0OOO0O000000000000000000O0O0O0 CHIEF SURGEON LIPPINCOTT'S SUGGESTION to the Red Cross Ladies as to the Best Thing They Can Do to Help the Army. Office of the Chief Surgeon, Expeditionary Forces and Department of Pacific, San Francisco, June 8, 1898. To the Ladies of the Red Cross Society, San Francisco, Cal.: I re- spectfully suggest that you furnish for the Philippine expedition four ice machines, each having a capacity of 5000 pounds daily; thatyoualso send a competent engineer to set up and run the machines, promising you that I will do everything in my power to obtain assistance for the person yuu'may send. This is by far the best thing you can do so far as my opinion goes. I fear that you could not do much with a ship as you propose. Very respectfully. HENRY LIPPINCOTT, Lieutenant-Colonel and Deputy Surgeon-General, United States Army, Chief Surgeon. 000000000000 00OOCOOO0OO0O0O00O0O000O00O0O0O000O0O0O ©000000000000000000000000O0O @ g & @ @ @ ® © & & ® & (O] [OXOJOXOROXOXOROJOJOXOROROROROJOXO) distinguishes it from the other tents is the flag that floats from its topmost point, a red cross on a white back- ground. with the motto, “Humanity and RPECE = CHEERING THEERQE_II_DHC_EROsS LADIES AFTlON- PLAN OF THE RED CROSS SOCIETY TO FIT OUT A HOSPITAL SHIP TO SEND TO THE FLEET AT MANILA. E fully understand and appreciate the objections of the Fed- eral authorities against using women nurses at the present time. To send two or even half a dozen women nurses, with- 4 out any general head, or without definite instructions, would undoubtedly do more harm than good. But if the time comes when a large corps of nurses must be sent to Manila we have a plan by which the women nurses can be used, and un- der which systematized and properly conducted course the present ob- jections to women nurses would not hold. This plan is to buy a ship with large decks suitable to that tropical climate, and to send a large body of nurses over on this vessel. At Manilagthis vessel could be used as a hospital and the sick soldiers moved to it. The nurses could be divided into squads, each sguad un- der an efficient head, and a general authority over all. On board the ship, with the cooling breeze, the sick would be far more likely to re- cover than on shore. Of course, in case of battle, the nurses would land UT on the Bay District track where tent the Seventh Califor- nia Volunteers is the Red Cross emergency hospital for the sick. The only outward evidence that Neutrality” standing out dead black above the red of the cross. Not a hundred feet away is the regu- lar army tent for the sick and from it, as from the hospital tents of all the other companies, floats a white flag with the red cross, but without the motto of the Red Cross League. Every regiment has its soldiers who are on the sick list. The sudden changes in our climate has given them severe colds and fevers; pies, cakes and sweets has ca its wake innumerable cases of stomachs,” and all the other slight ail- ments to which the human flesh is heir. of each regiment are taxed to their yt- most capacity. sent to the French Hospital away from the gusts of wind and the fog that pen- etrate the canvas tents. The rest of and work on the field. ® Meanwhile, we purpose to give a course in “first aid work” to all @ such non-graduates who have volunteered and whom we deem suitable @ for the work. By giving this course of instruction we can always have ® right here at our command efficient nurses, who, if not needed at the ® front, could take care of the sick and wounded who may be invalided ® home. 3 ® Despite the fact that it has been publicly and semi-officially stated ©® that women nurses will not be used at Manila, we have had constant and @ earnest appeals' from women asking that their services in the camp and ® field be accepted. i ® this work, the number of women volunteers for this service is prising- @ ly large. The majority of them are trained graduate nu: give @ the best of reference as to their ability and moral character ®© MRS. WEN @© Chairman Committee of Nur ® a deluge of rried in spoiled take turn; And a The result is that the hospital tents - ing and piles the convalescent. The plan of sending women nurses out to the camp has been abandoned as Wholly out of the question. flowers a e books for Those seriously ill are