or £ 1,000
The Red Cross Society of Krone 50,000
Austria
The Red Cross Society of Krone 10,000
Hungary
Golniezbanya Branch of the Red Krone 50,000
Cross Society of Hungary
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The Red Cross Society of Germany, with the permission of our Government,
has kindly sent out Professor Dr. Adolph Henle and Dr. Otto Fittig
accompanied by a nurse, Miss Margarethe von Sommogy, to our country to
render assistance towards relieving the sufferings of the sick and
wounded. Since last March, they have been working at a military branch
hospital in Sendagaya, Tokyo, in co-operation with our own surgeons and
nurses.
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A party of American nurses under Mrs. McGee mentioned briefly in our
last report, sailing from Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., on the 3d of
March, arrived in Yokohama on the 22d of April, 1904. They commenced
work on May 31st in the Hiroshima Reserve hospital where they remained
till October 10th, 1904. During that time, they were in turn placed on
board hospital ships that had been running between Japan and Manchuria.
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In compliance with Mrs. McGee’s request, we sent her out to the
Matsuyama Hospital, in which Russian prisoners had been placed and to a
naval hospital at Kure; and to some districts in Korea where there were
field hospitals.
She then returned to America together with the other nurses, who sailed
from Nagasaki on the 21st of October, 1904. We offered to Mrs. McGee and
to each one of the nurses the sum of Yen 200.00 as a token of our
appreciation of their services.
The following nurses:
Miss Minnie Cooke,
Miss Mary Gladwin,
Miss Ella King,
Miss Elizabeth Kratz,
Miss Adelaide Mackereth,
Miss Adele Neeb,
Miss Sophia Newell,
Miss Genevieve Russell,
returned the money to the Society saying that they could not bear to
carry any of the Red Cross money with them back to their homes.
As a further mark of our appreciation of their devotedness and
earnestness in caring for the sick and wounded on land and sea, we
invited the nurses to join the Society as Special Members.
(Special membership shall be offered to those who have rendered
distinguished services or made a donation of not less than 200 Yen, to
the Society.)
Miss Cooke, Miss King, Miss Mackereth and Miss Russell have made a
subscription towards the Relief Funds of this Society since they
returned home.
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Mrs. Richardson, an English lady, worked in the hospitals in Tokyo and
Hiroshima for about one year and half, arriving in Japan in April, 1904,
and leaving Yokohama for England on the 15th of July, 1905. During this
time she worked entirely at her own expense.
She made visits to the military hospitals in Nagoya, Osaka, Kokura,
Kumamoto, Matsuyama, Kure and Sasebo and also to those in Dalny and Port
Arthur. In April of this year, she was placed on board hospital ships
carrying the sick and wounded from the front to Japan. Her sympathy and
kindness had been shown, not only by her actually nursing the
war-victims but also by her giving them such things as might interest
and comfort them and by more than once making subscriptions towards the
Relief Funds of the Society.
Upon her departure from Japan, the Empress received her at the palace.
Prince Kan-in, Honorary President of the Red Cross Society of Japan, and
Princess Kan-in, Honorary President of the Ladies’ Volunteer Nursing
Association, gave her a farewell dinner at their residence.
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As the fall of Port Arthur had been expected by all the people, we had
sent previously 3,000 suits of patients’ dresses, together with a proper
number of blankets and kept them at the nearest possible place to the
fort so that we could be ready to provide the Russian wounded with such
things when needed. These things, as we thought, have been of a great
use. When Baron Ozawa took the opportunity of paying a visit to General
Walaschof, the President of the Russian Red Cross Hospital at Port
Arthur, the latter not merely expressed his high appreciation of what
had been done by our Society (offering an honorable medal to Baron Ozawa
and also one to Count Matsugata, the President), but also asked him if
the Red Cross Society of Japan would take over the hospital from the
Russian Red Cross Society. Baron Ozawa, however, refused the offer only
accepting the medal conferred upon him.
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At the close of this account, we take great pleasure in adding that
donations, in various shapes from every part of the world and from rich
and poor, annual subscriptions and the number of members have ever been
increasing. The members of the Society numbering in all 1,035,000,
include Japanese and foreigners in China, Korea, Hawaii, and in other
foreign countries. Nevertheless, the expenditure we have had to defray
for the Relief work increases to an amount those outside can hardly
imagine. We have been trying to the utmost of our power to perform our
duty of caring for the helpless patients of both belligerents ever since
the war broke out, only remembering the principles of Humanity and
Brotherhood and we will do so more and more hereafter under the guidance
of Providence and through the assistance of friends.
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