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Title: American Red Cross work among the French people
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Ames, Fisher
Subjects: American National Red Cross World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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hers the laws of cleanliness, diet, hygiene, both by talkand attractive cards and pamphlets. The minor ills ofmany of the children were due to the fact that they werenot kept clean. If they were inadequately clad, shoesand warm underclothing and other garments were pro-vided. A fine friendly relation grew up between thesepeople and the Bed Cross, to whom they took many of theirtroubles and from whom they always received aid, if aidwas justified. There were very few cases where there was any attemptmade to take advantage of this spirit of helpfulness. Onthe contrary the people often showed a delicacy of feelingremarkable considering their needs. It was customary forthe Bed Cross, where there was real destitution, to grantthe family credit at some local provision store for a fewweeks. When these people failed to report for furtheraid one of the personnel would be sent to investigate.Sometimes the women had found employment and weresupporting themselves, but others had another reason for
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MEURTHE-ET-MOSELLE 113 their absence. You have been so kind as to help ns forsome weeks, they said; we couldnt come again. Inthe town of Foug a woman sold a pair of shoes that theRed Cross had given her. They were too small for thechild and the mother was desperately poor, but the actaroused a tumult of indignation and the citizens almostdrove her out of the town because she had sold a gift of theAmerican Red Cross. The work spread until the monthly consultationsnumbered about nine thousand. When an examinationat the clinic showed that a child was seriously ill or neededan operation it was taken to the Asile Caserne du Luxem-bourg. Thus the dispensaries fed the hospitals and thegrowth of the two kept pace. The number of operations,many of them major operations, ran between one hundredand sixty to one hundred and seventy-five a month. The system worked smoothly and effectively for the con^fidence of the people had been won. The mothers thoughtlittle of walking twenty or thirty kilomete

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