Show I RED CR GROSS CROSS STILL StilE IN REED NEED OF OP J SUPPLIES t Impossible ible for American Women to Ov Oversupply rs Hospitals Hospitals' Ho yr With S Surgical i Dressings i I r-i r sQ f 1 lr f. Startling Startling- ass It m may y s me the a ser er tion is ds true that th t French ren f surgeons 11 ur eons at times were vere forc forced d fo So operate upon wo wounded soldiers without the e use of anaesthetics or surgical dressings A AThis This information was given gluon by Mrs Benjamin 0 G. Lathrop director of ot the Paris J depot of the American Fund for French Wounded in answer to a n question question ques ques- tion flea as to whether her organization and the lied Red Gross Cross were not being oversupplied over over- supplied with hospital materials It is impossible for American women wom worn en to oversupply t the 1 Red Cross pith surgical dressings when there are are 4 military hospitals in France Trance which need o our r help and in addition the ian fan relief stations Und rind last but not least the new I American army hos hosS hospitals Mrs Lathrop worked to supply French hospitals with anaesthetics and bandages before the United States entered en en- the war and before the Red Cross Crosa became a big factor in n the situation She explained the shortage of anaesthetics and other supplies as follows When the O Germans rm ns Invaded Franco France r I rin in ln 1914 they occupied and still hold the main manufacturing districts of ot the country With most of their sacs factories factories fac fac- tories lost the French had to Jo turn to the United States for hospital supplies The The enormous number of wounded exceeded exceeded ex ex- their facilities facUlties and it is is true true that some operations were performed Y without anaesthetics or surgical dress dressi J lags ings Rubber go goods ds especially scarce GIOV Gloves s made of French rub rubber rub ber bet split as soon as the surgeons tried them on Hot water bottles botties broke at I the first filling In time we got enough rubber goods from the United States State to Improve the situation but there is 1 still acute need f for r all that possibly can be sent over there i |