Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-08-23 | Page 16 | Utah Nurse Gets Cross of Mercy

m m gets KJFHIEr Miss Luella Francy Decorated Deco-rated for Relief Work in Serbia. In recognition of herf service in an American Red Cross hospital at Prisrend, Miss Luella Francy of Salina, Utah, and formerly attached to the nurses' staff of the Salt Lake emergency hospital, has been decorated with the "cross of mercy" by Prince Alexander of Serbia. This information in-formation has been given out by the American Red Cross service of Paris. Hiss Francy volunteered for service in the Balkan country last Ja nuary. She was sent with a medical unit of doctors and nurses to Prisrend, a city on the western borders of Serbia, through which ; the Serbian army passed when it made its great retreat to the sea in 1915. Twenty Twen-ty thousand persons are said to have starved to death there during the war, apd the people throughout the d is trie: t were in desperate need of food, clothing j and medical attention. The A merican doctors and nurses not I only established a modern hospital, but : also operated a chain or' six dispensaries I in adjacent towns. Two soup k itch mis were kept open during the early spring I before the people began to get vegetables , and fruit from their land. An orphanage lias been opened and a workroom started where poor women of the city can find employment. Some of the most difficult hospital cases were cared for by Miss Francy, and her services have now won special recognition recogni-tion from the prince. Miss Francy recently returned to the , United States.