MEDICINE AND THE WAR

Abstract

<h3>TWENTY-EIGHT MILLION SURGICAL DRESSINGS MADE BY RED CROSS WORKERS</h3> Between the beginning of September 1939 and the 1st of October 1941 the American Red Cross spent $49,753,515 on war relief in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. This sum does not take into account the medical, surgical and hospital supplies—estimated at a value of $200,000—shipped to Russia from Great Britain in behalf of the American Red Cross. The relief work thus accomplished during the past twenty-five months of the war has been made possible by gifts from the American people and by supplies purchased by the United States government for foreign war relief. Volunteer workers in American Red Cross chapters have played a large part in this work. According to the League of Red Cross Societies they have produced nearly six and a half million articles of clothing and 28,331,772 surgical dressings. These workers have furnished Great Britain alone with 21,786,000 dressings, 565,000