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Show RED CROSS REPORTS ON WORK IN FRANCE Hospitals Care for 240,496 Civilian Victims Vic-tims of German Offensive During Month of June. PARTS. Aug. 3. The department of civil affairs of the American Red Cross has just issued its report for June. It shows that it employed a staff of 1073 persons, per-sons, maintained fifteen civilian hospital.1; with a total capacity of beds, and reached in some mariner or another more than 2-10. -106 civilians affected by the last ofensive. j Thirty thousand Paris school children : have been given supplemental food sucJi as special lunches, breakfasts, etc. A hospital and four dispensaries were opened during the month. Medical aid was given to 26.160 persons; 11.S73 refugees refu-gees were housed and 3140 given employment. employ-ment. During first week of the May offensive of-fensive 25'0 refugees were fed in "canteens "can-teens established in the Paris stations. Monov donations to. outside organizations organiza-tions totaled $300,000; of whi'-h $14 0.0nij was appropriated for tuberculosis patients; pa-tients; S25,0"iO for the care of children ; 5:16,000 for rt-rugees. and the remainder for nun iles. The following has been distributed dis-tributed through the agencies of the department; de-partment; 177,75 garments, 22.4S8 pairs of shoes. 48.20 articles of furniture and household utensils, 55.4134 articles of bedding bed-ding and hou.-ehold linen, 58,488 yards of cloth. 167,704 pounds of food. 4535 hospital hos-pital articles and 1000 unclassified.. |