Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — American Red Cross Notes. [ARTICLE]

American Red Cross Notes.

Washington, September 21. The American Red Cross announces today that Dr. Charles Ulysses Moore, of Portland, Ore., has been sent to France to reinforce the Infant Welfare Unit now at work there under the direction of Dr. William"?. Lucas of the University of California. With Dr. Moore, who is one of the eading pediatric specialists of the Pacific coast, go a group of sixteen nurses who have had special training in children’s diseases and social welfare work. These reinforcements are sent in response to a cabled request from Major Grayson M.-P. Murphy, head of the Red Cross Commission to France, under whose direction Dr. Lucas is working. The Red Cross will endeavor to decrease the present high death rate among children under two years of age, which with the falling birthrate, threatens rapidly to depopulate the country. While the plans of the unit are not yet fully developed it is expected that doctors ana nurses will be assigned to service at all the points of greatest need in France. They are to be stationed in groups of two or more at leading hospitals from which house to house work and educational campaigns can be conducted, both in the cities and through the country districts. A third detachment of doctors will said before the end of the month. >

The Red Cross has already established a children’s refuge near Toul where 750 boys and girls, from nearby villages which have been under bombardment, are now being kept safe from gas attacks under expert medical care, in co-operation with the French government. In Belgium the Red Cross, together with the Rockefeller foundation, is preparing to care for between five and six thousand children. To the American Red Cross Hospital, established by Dr. Joseph ABlake in Paris, two doctors from New England are being sent, at. Dr. Blake’s special request. They are Dr. J. B. McCook, of Hartford, Conn., and Dr. W. Irving Clark, of Worcester, Mass. Dr. Blake’s hospital has made an especially notable record in its treatment of fractures. Several novel methods are in use, including the “Blake Extension,” by means of which the broken member is suspended in a cradle above the patient’s bed.