Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1919 — Red Cross Distributes Hospital Supplies [ARTICLE]

Red Cross Distributes Hospital Supplies

TWO hundred and forty packing cases containing over 2,000,000 separate articles pneumonia jackets, absorbent pads, bandages, nightgowns, pajamas and baby clothes —have been sent out during the past week from the warehouse of the Lkke Division Red Cross Headquarters, Cleveland, to hospitals In Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. The American Red Cross Is co-oper-ating with the American Hospital Association to distribute 25,000,000 yards of gauze, Intended for military hospitals, to civil hospitals In the United States that are In need of supplies. At the division warehouse there are 8,000 boxes of garments and supplies sent In from Red Cross Chapters. These will be distributed to hospitals as orders are received from the hospital association. Women who mat during the war io make surgical dressings meet now to pack these cases. • In the distribution the past week twenty-five hospitals in Ohio received supplies, five In Indiana and two to Kentucky. -