A history of United States Army Base Hospital No36 (Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery Unit) organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917 . ties of thenurses and herself. In addition the committee obtained the aid of all the Presbyterian churches in the cityand numerous personal friends to purchase sweaters for the nurses, who, in their first let-ters from France, complained of the intense cold. In a short time every overseas nursefrom Detroit received a sweater of the warmest kind. At Christmas a sum of money wassent to Mrs. Harris for the use of the nurses and herself. Arrival of th
A history of United States Army Base Hospital No36 (Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery Unit) organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917 . ties of thenurses and herself. In addition the committee obtained the aid of all the Presbyterian churches in the cityand numerous personal friends to purchase sweaters for the nurses, who, in their first let-ters from France, complained of the intense cold. In a short time every overseas nursefrom Detroit received a sweater of the warmest kind. At Christmas a sum of money wassent to Mrs. Harris for the use of the nurses and herself. Arrival of the nurses in France led naturally and inevitably to the second branch ofthe campaign in which the same group of public-spirited Detroit women took part, to-gether with many others throughout the republic. Letters soon began to arrive from thewar zone telling how the nurses had discovered that their work was being often nullifiedthrough lack of authority. They were neither officers nor privates, and were unable tosecure that quick performance of requests by hospital orderlies upon which the lives ofthe wounded frequently depended. Mrs. Red Cross Workroom. Christmas Boxes—1917 For the first Christmas season after the entry of the United States into the war, thewomen of the Detroit Chapter of the American Red Cross put in more than two weeks oftremendous work preparing Christmas packages for American men in service. Of theseBase Hospital 36 received twenty-four cases. With headquarters in the Recreation Building, 147 Shelby Street, where the use of twolarge stores on the ground floor was given by the Sweeney-Huston Company, a regularfactory system, if such it might be called, was instituted for efficiency. Long tables,upon which articles for the boxes were heaped, filled the room. As each article was putin, the box was passed on to another worker until filled. It was then sent into an adjoin-ing room to be stamped, wrapped and directed and packed into larger cartons and
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