The Red Cross : in peace and war . While the vSeconcl Division hospital wasstill young, the Red Cross offered its nurses freely and offered to shelter and feed them at its own expense, but the offer wasspurned indignantly and with scarcely disguised contempt. We weretold that female nurses were not needed, that the hospital had alreadymore skilled nurses than it could use, and that female nurses were anuisance round a camp anyway. Most of them, the chief-surgeonaffirmed, were drawn to the work by a morbid sentimentality or bymotives of even a more questionable character. He wou
The Red Cross : in peace and war . While the vSeconcl Division hospital wasstill young, the Red Cross offered its nurses freely and offered to shelter and feed them at its own expense, but the offer wasspurned indignantly and with scarcely disguised contempt. We weretold that female nurses were not needed, that the hospital had alreadymore skilled nurses than it could use, and that female nurses were anuisance round a camp anyway. Most of them, the chief-surgeonaffirmed, were drawn to the work by a morbid sentimentality or bymotives of even a more questionable character. He would have noneof them. But the time came when even this officer had to change hisattitude if not his opinions, and women nurses were sought for andwelcomed to the hospital by hundreds. That they have proven a greatblessing to the boys, no one now questions ; many most pronounced intheir opposition are now loudest in their praise, and the Red Crossrejoices that the good work is being done, though itself denied theprivilege of OQUHNPC \ITKR TIIK KNOAGEMENT. 420 THE RED CROSS. FORT MCPHERSON, GA. Early in August Mr. D, ly. Cobb, on a tour of inspection, arrivedat Fort McPherson, Georgia, to see if any assistance was required at thepost, and if an agency could be established. It was found that E. Nave, wife of Rev. Orville J. Nave, chaplain of the post, andtheir daughter. Miss Hermione Nave, had established a small dietarykitchen and were supporting a table for convalescents. The object ofthe kitchen was to provide light and nutritive diet for the soldiers inthe barracks who were suffering from stomach troubles, dysentery andkindred digestive disorders, and to care for the convalescents fromtyphoid fever and other serious sickness, until they were sufficientlyrecovered to be again returned to the company mess. As this kitchen was performing an important part in the care ofthe men, and the demands upon it were daily increasing, it was pro-posed that it be c
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