URGENCY CASES HOSPITAL FOR FRANCE. [To rex Sono. or MI
"EireCTATOIL.'] Sru,—It may interest those of your readers who have been kind enough to subscribe to the funds of the above hospital, which owes its origin to the initiative and energy of Miss E. L. 0. Eden, Hon. Secretary of the National Union of Trained Nurses, to know that it has gone out to France and is actually at work. A large and airy building has been placed at the disposal of the hospital at Bar.le-Due by the French military authorities, who have been most kind and helpful to us in every way. This building is sufficiently large to accommodate not only the whole staff, consisting of over fifty persons, but also one hundred wounded—double the number we originally intended to undertake. This will of course materially increase the cost of upkeep, but the very large number of seriously wounded cases makes it impera- tively necessary to take as many as can possibly be accommo- dated. The wounded are at present collected from a field hospital in the firing line, where they receive first-aid, and are brought to the hospital in motor-ambulances; but per- mission has been granted by the French military authorities for our ambulances to fetch the wounded, if necessary, from the firing line direct. Subscriptions will be welcomed towards the upkeep of this hospital. Cheques should be made pay- able to the Hon. Secretary, at 50e Curzon Street, W., and crossed Messrs. Cox and Ca—We are, Sir, &c., ARBUTHNOT Laws, President.
STEPUBN PAGET, Chairman.
HiniBERT SAMUELSON, Vice-Chairman. LAUDER BRUNTON.
60a Curzon Street, W.
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