Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-10-03 | Page 35 | Sister Beatrice is Leading Nurse

SISTER BEATRICE 15 LEADING NURSE Tells of Great Strides Made in Hospital Service on War Front. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Oct. 2. Sister Beatrice one of the leaders of war nursing for the allies. She is a we! I -known American singer. Her activities have been remarkably re-markably extensive. Of her experiences, Sister Beatrice says: Great strides have been made in getting the wounded soldiers to a fully equipped hospital. At the commencement com-mencement of the war It sometimes took several days. Now it is accomplished accom-plished In twenty-four hours and sometimes sooner. But there is always danger If the wounded men are placed too close to the firing line, as high explosives cause havoc and their maddening din must be trying to patients. The shells have a way of falling on or near hospitals hos-pitals and nursing homes, whether intentionally or not. It Just needs every man and woman wom-an to come forward and help and not rest on their oars until peace is signed. I started In at LJmoges In northern France and as soon as T got the lay of things there proceeded to collect supplies to All the great need of stores there. In ten months I have crossed the English channel forty-nine times and will be making my fiftieth crossing In a few days. A great deal of my work has been done ln connection with the Soeiete des Femmes de France, which Is recognized rec-ognized by the government of the French republic and the military authorities. au-thorities. I have thus enjoyed the privilege of Inspecting and military hospitals I may wish and finding out what their needs are. Seizing the opportunity, I visited about fifty hospitals and. through the generosity of the British public. T have Just equipped one at Limoges and another Ht Dieppe and founded a new one at Tevolot. where there are 300 wounded and to which a convalescent conva-lescent home has Just been attached. In addition to untiring zeal as a director di-rector and chief of hospital Inspecting work, Sister Beatrice has addressed thousands of work people, notablv at El-leswlck, El-leswlck, Armstrong's great gun and ammunition am-munition headquarters. Speaking of this, she said : I have spoken to 40,000 of them there. I am fond of them all. While there I found a surgeon operating on Just common tables. When I told them, the people subscribed right away for a proper operating table. So successful has Sister Beatrice been that Lord Northcllffe presented her with an ambulance car for Red Cross work, which has been of great service to her. But It Is not only with her brain and her energy that Sister Beatrice has been busy. She has turned to account ln the same connection her vocal powers, gave a concert in London In Julv and devoted all the receipts to the good work she has set herself to do for the sick and wounded. She concluded: There are mountains of work yet to be done. I am going to the north of England in a day or two and later I shall return to France and help, where posslblo. in seeing that all that Is possible Is done for the brave sufferers, suf-ferers, irrespective of their rank or nationality.