American Red Cross work among the French people . ituated about thirty miles from Lyon in an immensepark and with its wide outlook, its quiet, and its beds andbanks of flowers it proved an ideal place for the list-less young invalids. Their state before they were sentinto the country was, as one nurse said, appalling. Itwas a matter of building up their systems, but youth iswonderfully elastic and with fresh air, nourishing food,and what medical attention was necessary in an amazinglyshort time the little patients became healthy boys and girlswith a newly developed fondness for the out-of-door
American Red Cross work among the French people . ituated about thirty miles from Lyon in an immensepark and with its wide outlook, its quiet, and its beds andbanks of flowers it proved an ideal place for the list-less young invalids. Their state before they were sentinto the country was, as one nurse said, appalling. Itwas a matter of building up their systems, but youth iswonderfully elastic and with fresh air, nourishing food,and what medical attention was necessary in an amazinglyshort time the little patients became healthy boys and girlswith a newly developed fondness for the out-of-doors lifeand vigorous sports of all kinds. Their day began atsix A. M. with drills and exercises before a breakfast ofchocolate, followed at seven-thirty a. m. by bread andbutter. The hours for study, play-work and regular exer-cise were carefully planned. The children were kept atthe chateau until they had fully recovered, when they wereevacuated to the Secours des Bepatries at Lyon, whencethey were eventually returned to their parents if they had. WORK IN OTHER CITIES 131 any — a great many were orphans — or to relatives orfriends. The French Child-welfare Societies at Lyon, or most ofthem, had become temporarily impoverished during thewar and as they only needed funds in order to continuethe excellent work they had been doing, the Red Crossassisted them with certain sums of money. Regularmonthly subventions were given to six of them. In thismanner the Red Cross helped hundreds of run-down chil-dren to have summer vacations and gave aid in the formof nursing bonuses to a great many mothers who otherwisewould have been forced to place their babies with wetnurses while they themselves sought work in the factories. A contagious hospital and a bureau for the examina-tion of the children of repatries were established at Dieppeand medical and nursing aid given the Society of Friends,chiefly to assist in the work at their two centers, Chalons-sur-Marne and Sermaize and at Le Glandi
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