A history of United States Army Base Hospital No36 (Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery Unit) organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917 . tyet completed, the market was depleted. There was a great scarcity of materials of allkinds, shipments were exceedingly slow, and also it was difficult to get volunteer workersand sewers. The United States had but just entered the war and our boys were not yetactively engaged, so the personal element and interest did not enter into it. Six monthslater, with many of our boys in service, workers by the hundreds were available, but bythat time Base
A history of United States Army Base Hospital No36 (Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery Unit) organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917 . tyet completed, the market was depleted. There was a great scarcity of materials of allkinds, shipments were exceedingly slow, and also it was difficult to get volunteer workersand sewers. The United States had but just entered the war and our boys were not yetactively engaged, so the personal element and interest did not enter into it. Six monthslater, with many of our boys in service, workers by the hundreds were available, but bythat time Base Hospital No. 36 was doing its own work for our sons and husbands behindthe firing line. One day, a Red Cross official enquired of a member of the Purchasing Committee,Who supplies the money for the Base Hospitals? Does it come from Washington? He received the reply, Oh, Mr. , as yet no one knows. We are much too busy spending the money to bother about where it is coming from. We frequently had nervous prostration calls, such as 36 is ordered to sail in threedays, 36 is leaving in a week, etc. The greatest secrecy was, of course, preserved re-. Mrs. E, D. Stair Mrs. James T. Shaw. garding the date of the Units saihng. The Packing Committee worked day and night,their only reward for aching backs being the sight of those hundreds of neat boxes packedand labeled for- overseas. But in spite of our handicaps, our ignorance and our inexperience, we tried to carryon that the Unit might not sail without the equipment. Newberry House, 483 Jefferson Avenue, had been generously donated by the NewberryEstate as Headquarters for all Chapter work. Here and in workrooms connected with it(at this time numbering 101) were prepared supplies for Base Hospital No. 36 at a totalcost of $10, The Chapter agreed to furnish material to all societies, clubs, andchurches doing Red Cross work. The Club of Doctors Wives and several others suppliedtheir own material. Splendid assistance was given by t
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