Red Cross Aid in Europe

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 30, 1915

Red Cross Aid in Europe

The American Red Cross doctors and nurses, according to a recent announcement, will be withdrawn from the European battle fields October 1, because of lack of funds to maintain them longer at their stations. It is possible that the two units in Belgium, where the greatest need exists, will be continued, but the other fourteen detachments will return to the United States. The Serbian Sanitary Commission, and other work supported by special contribution, will go on as long as those contributions are available; but the general fund collected in the United States, amounting to $1,500,000, will be exhausted on October 1. The report shows that the Red Cross has sent into the war zone almost 1,000,000 pounds of cotton for the hospitals, 882,000 yards of surgical gauze, 65,000 yards of crinoline, 727,000 assorted bandages, 35,000 yards of adhesive plaster, 9,240 stretchers, 10,267 blankets, and 19 motor ambulances for the Red Cross personnel. Thousands of doses of medicine and other medical supplies were used in addition to the supplies mentioned above. There were four army field hospital outfits, fifty army hospital tents, and thirty field medical tents.