Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-30 | Page 22 | Government Pays Red Cross Nurses

GOVEMfT PAYS RED CROSS NURSES All Women Enrolled in Army and Navy Corps Are Compensated. HAVE OTHER RIGHTS Entitled to War Risk Insurance Insur-ance While inService of Nation. Publication of the fact that the government, gov-ernment, through the American Eed Cross, has sent eait an urgent call for thousands more trained nurses than are now in the army and navy service has aroused widespread interest and the telephones at local Bed Cross headquarters headquar-ters and the office of the nursing service serv-ice in tho Public Safety building have carried many calls for further information. infor-mation. This has been cheerfully furnished, fur-nished, but there are some frequently recurring questions that the officials in charge of the department believe may best be answered briefly through the press. One of the queries heard many times is as to the amount of compensation received by the Eed Cross nurses in government service. For duty at home the pay is $.10 per month, with transportation, trans-portation, board, quarters, uniform and accessories. For service abroad the pay is $(30 per month, with the same additions ad-ditions as in home service. Iu all instances in-stances Red Cross nurses in active government gov-ernment service are entitled to the same rights of war risk insurance as are officers and the enlisted men. Schools That Credit. Another question asked frequently yesterday was regarding the accredited "hospital training schools which gave to the college graduato of science training train-ing credit upon entrance on a course in nursing. Following is a partial list of the institutions that have announced a credit of from six to nine months to qualified entrants: University hospi tal, Augusta, Ga.; Bellevue and Allied hospital, New York City; Cincinnati General hospital, Cincinnati, O.; Harper hospital, Detroit, Mich.; Lakeside hospital, hos-pital, Cleveland. O.; Mount Sinai hospital. hos-pital. New York City: Newton hospital, hos-pital, Newton, Mass.; Presbyterian hospital. hos-pital. New York and Philadelphia; Washington University hospital, St. Louis, Mo. Plans are being considered for the granting of commissions to all Ked Cross nurses in the service, i'.ist as each physician in the service holds a commission com-mission of some rank. But this is a matter concerning which no decision has yet beeu reached. rIiss Wicklund Writes. Miss F.lla M. Wicklund, formerly ex-ecntivo ex-ecntivo secretary of the Salt Lake "coun-tv "coun-tv chapter, who left a few months ago for duty at the front as a Red Cross nurse, where she had previously served for more than a year, writes to a friend at local headquarters that tho year she spent in Salt Lake "seems "like a dream." She explains it is bard to realize her period of service at home, innsmuch as she is bac again under conditions nlmos't similar to those before be-fore left "on the part of the wounded wound-ed the same patience, the same unfaltering un-faltering determination to triumph in the end." Miss Wicklund writes that she has received no letters from Salt Lake sinco she sailed. This is probably because be-cause ber friends did not know her address, which is: "General Hospital No. 10, B. E. F. France." She is not permitted to say where the location is, but the man who handles the government govern-ment moil for the American forces abroad understands. Among the visitors from out of the city who called yesterday at local headquarters head-quarters were John Meeker of American Ameri-can Fork, secretarv of the branch there, and Mrs. Clark Christian of Ely, Nev., chairman of the knitting section of the Ely Eed Cross. Articles Turned In. A large quantity of finished material was turned in yestenlav to tho local chapter. A partial list follows: Mid-vale Mid-vale branch, 'toil 0 by 9 compresses, 200 4 by -1 compresses, fiOO gauze sponges, 80 I) by .'I strips, t 12 by 21 absorbent pads, 120 fouMailod bandages, ban-dages, '15 bed shirts, 2:1 surgeons' gowns; Liberty stnl'e Relief society auxiliary, 211 pairs of socks, I sweater, 4 pairs of bed socks, fl suits of pajamas, 2 bed shirts; Liberty stake Kelief society so-ciety auxiliary, Liberty ward, 1!) bed shirts; First. "Presbyterian church auxiliary, aux-iliary, 10 surgeons' gowns, 10 triangle bandaues, ;)7 T bandages, 8 pillows, .10 bed shirts, .1.8 pairs of socks, ,1 surgeons' sur-geons' caps (donated oil wash cloths, 88 handkerchiefs, trav cloths'). The University of Utah auxiliary yesterday took out ten bolts of gauze for surgical dressings, -'ibe Undies' Literary Lit-erary club auxiliary and the Kasl high school nuxilia.ry, twelve holts each.