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As a nurse in the Civil War Clara Barton performed invaluable service. Pueblo (Colo.)Star Journal.
Clara Barton in the theme of her address here, “The Ministering Angel,” urged the organization of Nurses’ Associations and Training Schools for Nurses. Atlanta (Ga.)Constitution.
The great war-nurse, friend of the world. The loftiest eloquence could give her none that more clearly expressed the keynote of her life. Grand Rapids (Mich.)Press.
Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain that they may live.Ezekiel.
Nothing is impossible to Organized Womanhood,—united in aims and effort.Caroline M. Severance—“Mother of Clubs.”
American nurses are covering their profession with a glory that will live forever is the report that comes from France.
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The nurse is proud to be chosen from millions of women anxious to care for the sick, as the representative of American womanhood.
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Thirty-two thousand graduate nurses have said to the American Red Cross, “We are ready, use us.”American Red Cross.
Profane histories are three-fourths filled with the details of battles and sieges, and almost silent as to any provision for the sick and wounded.Clara Barton.
There were probably surgeons and nurses long before there were military chieftains.Clara Barton.
Agrippina, wife of the General, distributed clothing and dressings to the wounded.Clara Barton.
Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.Emerson.
Scarcely had man made his first move in organizing the Red Cross when the jeweled hand of royal woman glistened beside him, and right royally has she done her part.Clara Barton.
Women are, by nature, much better fitted for nurses than men can be.Clara Barton.
Had there been need for them, the Red Cross could easily have recruited an army of twenty-five thousand nurses from the flower of American womanhood.Clara Barton.
Large organizations of women, the best in the country and I believe the best in the world, have faithfully labored with me to merge the Red Cross into their societies, as a part of woman’s work.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
I have wrought day after day and night after night, so sorry for thenecessity, so glad for the opportunity,—ministering with my own hands and strength to the dying wants of the patriot-martyrs, who fell for their country and mine.Clara Barton.
To the army of nurses, brave, generous and true who, either as auxiliaries at home or as nurses in the field, made up that magnificent array of womanhood ready for sacrifice on the altar of humanity and their country—no words of mine can do justice.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Three great conflicts were seen by Miss Barton, and her career is an example to thousands of women who today are trying to heal human suffering. Buffalo (N. Y.)Express.
Nursing in war is of comparatively recent origin. While it is recorded that Fabiola, a patrician Roman lady, founded a hospital in A.D. 380, and 600 nurses in the early part of the fifth century were in the hospitals in Alexandria, nursing in war hospitals dates fromthe Crimean War; and on the battlefields, from our Civil War. The Crimean War gave the first real impulse to this humanitarian work, and the Civil War gave added luster to the glory of this work of humanity, as did the Franco-Prussian War and the Spanish-American War. But the late war broke all records; now, war-nursing will continue until “Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.”
The true disciples of humanity in war are the nurses, wearing the sign of the Red Cross and whose sacred mission it is to bind up the soldier’s wounds and “To heal all manner of sickness and all manner of diseases.” In the World War, reports show that there were approximately 11,600 American Red Cross nurses in service over-seas.
The total number of nurses employed:Army Nurse Corps, Regulars and Reserves 22,854Navy Nurse Corps, Regulars and Reserves 1,500Nurses assigned directly under the Red Cross forservice overseas 604Nurses assigned to U. S. Public Health Service inthis country—extra military zones, essentialwar industries plants; marine hospitals 284———Total 25,242The cost for operation for June 30, 1917–July 1, 1918, was$197,180.00.Total assignments of Red Cross nurses in foreign activities:To the Army 17,931To the Navy 1,058To the U. S. Public Health Service 284To the Red Cross nurses 604———Total 19,877
The total number of nurses employed:Army Nurse Corps, Regulars and Reserves 22,854Navy Nurse Corps, Regulars and Reserves 1,500Nurses assigned directly under the Red Cross forservice overseas 604Nurses assigned to U. S. Public Health Service inthis country—extra military zones, essentialwar industries plants; marine hospitals 284———Total 25,242The cost for operation for June 30, 1917–July 1, 1918, was$197,180.00.Total assignments of Red Cross nurses in foreign activities:To the Army 17,931To the Navy 1,058To the U. S. Public Health Service 284To the Red Cross nurses 604———Total 19,877
The total number of nurses employed:Army Nurse Corps, Regulars and Reserves 22,854Navy Nurse Corps, Regulars and Reserves 1,500Nurses assigned directly under the Red Cross forservice overseas 604Nurses assigned to U. S. Public Health Service inthis country—extra military zones, essentialwar industries plants; marine hospitals 284———Total 25,242
The total number of nurses employed:
Army Nurse Corps, Regulars and Reserves 22,854
Navy Nurse Corps, Regulars and Reserves 1,500
Nurses assigned directly under the Red Cross for
service overseas 604
Nurses assigned to U. S. Public Health Service in
this country—extra military zones, essential
war industries plants; marine hospitals 284
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Total 25,242
The cost for operation for June 30, 1917–July 1, 1918, was$197,180.00.
The cost for operation for June 30, 1917–July 1, 1918, was
$197,180.00.
Total assignments of Red Cross nurses in foreign activities:To the Army 17,931To the Navy 1,058To the U. S. Public Health Service 284To the Red Cross nurses 604———Total 19,877
Total assignments of Red Cross nurses in foreign activities:
To the Army 17,931
To the Navy 1,058
To the U. S. Public Health Service 284
To the Red Cross nurses 604
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Total 19,877
The Red Cross has furnished equipment to approximately 12,000 nurses and lay women personnel engaged in foreign war service, and to nurses in cantonments and naval hospitals in this country, at an approximate cost of $2,000,000.
Personnel equipped by the Red Cross for overseas duty, from the beginning of the war to December 31st, 1918, at the following cost:
As to the work of the American Red Cross Clara Barton says: “History records the wonderful achievements of the Red Cross, the greatest of relief organizations, though it cannot record the untold suffering which has been averted by it.” As to the Red Cross war-nursing, she says: “There can be no estimate of the misery assuaged and the deaths prevented by the unselfish zeal and devotion of the nurses of the Red Cross.” In prophecy she says:
And what would they do if war came again?The scarlet cross floats where all was blank then.They would bind on their “brassards” and march to the fray.And the man liveth not who could say to them nay;They would stand with you now, as they stood with you then,—The nurses, consolers, and saviours of men.
And what would they do if war came again?The scarlet cross floats where all was blank then.They would bind on their “brassards” and march to the fray.And the man liveth not who could say to them nay;They would stand with you now, as they stood with you then,—The nurses, consolers, and saviours of men.
And what would they do if war came again?The scarlet cross floats where all was blank then.They would bind on their “brassards” and march to the fray.And the man liveth not who could say to them nay;They would stand with you now, as they stood with you then,—The nurses, consolers, and saviours of men.
And what would they do if war came again?
The scarlet cross floats where all was blank then.
They would bind on their “brassards” and march to the fray.
And the man liveth not who could say to them nay;
They would stand with you now, as they stood with you then,—
The nurses, consolers, and saviours of men.