The Red Cross : in peace and war . them continue theirwork without any hesitation. The Red Cross Hospital building becamecrowded, one room was set aside for doutful cases, while the otherrooms were occupied with typhoid patients. The porch in front of thehouse, shaded with canvas, and a little isolated room to the right,sheltered the wounded. My work at the Red Cross Hospital became continuous, as a largenumber of patients came from the various camps to receive attention,and still a larger number from our camp came for consultation andtreatment. The number of such consultations I discontinued
The Red Cross : in peace and war . them continue theirwork without any hesitation. The Red Cross Hospital building becamecrowded, one room was set aside for doutful cases, while the otherrooms were occupied with typhoid patients. The porch in front of thehouse, shaded with canvas, and a little isolated room to the right,sheltered the wounded. My work at the Red Cross Hospital became continuous, as a largenumber of patients came from the various camps to receive attention,and still a larger number from our camp came for consultation andtreatment. The number of such consultations I discontinued to writedown after three hundred were attended, Americans, Spanish andCubans together. HOSPITAL SERXICE. 507 Every case of typhoid fever and other disease which was placed inour charge from the day we opened the hospital, has recovered. Thelast of them were brought home well on the Concho; those thatcame later were on the way to recovery when I left for the fever hos-pital. Among our patients were two who had measles, complicated. n.^^ p \ ^y
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