William McCormick Blair

“ Four warehouses in the devastated zones are filled with food, clothing, furniture, tools, and household goods of many sorts which are distributed to needy families. Ruined villages are being rebuilt, farms are being tilled again, families are being reunited, because the Red Cross is there to help.
8. It has opened refuges and hospitals for French war orphans and other sick and neglected children in France and Belgium and has sent doctors to care for mothers and babies so as to save the next generation. ”

“ It is helping to care for half a million tuberculosis victims in France, maintaining its own sanitariums, looking out for children who have been exposed to infection, relieving the families of those who are ill. ”

“ It has established 13 divisions of civilian relief for the giving of help to families of soldiers and sailors, and our Army is far stronger and its morale is far better because the Red Cross has assumed responsibility for the families left at home. ”

“ It has dispatched commissions to France, Russia, Italy, Roumania, and Serbia. Appointed a commission for England and a special department for Belgium under the commission to France.
2. It is helping to care for the wounded in the great war, for our own boys in the American Army and their allies. It is doing this by maintaining in whole or part five hospitals in France and four in England; by supplying to 3,500 military hospitals in France surgical dressings, drugs, apparatus, and other needful supplies, gathered from all over the United States. ”

“ It has opened canteens at important French railway stations where 18,000 French soldiers, as they go home on leave from the trenches, can bathe, disinfect their clothing, buy a simple hot meal for a few cents, and sleep in comfort while they wait for trains. ”