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WELFARE OF ALL MANKIND.
WORLD RED CROSS COMBINATION.
sectarian. Its chief aims are to estab- ¦ ence concluded, when the first urgent lish and develop in every country a work of the sort the conference had duly authorised voluntary rational Red talked about presented itself. In May Cross crganisation.. to bring within the last the league drew the attention of reach of all mankind the benefits of all Member Societies of the Red medical and scientific research, and to Cross' to the conditions of disease and harnish a medium for co-ordinating misery in Eastern Europe, and parti- relief work in case of great national cularly go the typhus epidemic which or international calamities. Speaking was sweeping over Western Russia. at the Cannes conference Sir Arthur The result of the appeal was the des- Stanley, of the British Red Cross, patch of a medical commission to revealed some of the spirit behind the Poland to report on the most urgent League in a congratulatory address to requirements. The commission found Mr. H. P. Davison (United States) that the case of Poland was complic- the first chairman of the board of ared by the fact that the Polish Gov- governors. "I believe," he said, ernment, besides combating the typhus that this League of Red Cross Scand feeding and clothing refugees and cieties is destined to play a great part orphans, was waging war along the in the history of the world. I believe whole of its eastern frontier. Nearly that the bringing together of the all the Polish doctors were with the humanitarian interests of every coun- army, and for civilian troubles only try in the world will go far towards the one for every 10,000 of population From January to July, establishment of permanent peace, remained. and will do much to place the League 1919, the number of declared typhus cases in Poland was 124,820. The seriousness of the epidemic is shown by the estimate of the Polish Minister for Health that it would be necessary to establish a sanitary cordon from the Black Sea to the Baltic, and to
of Nations on a firm foundation.”
erect barracks to accommodate half a
"The members of the League agree to encourage and promote the establishment and co-operation of duly authorised voluntary national Red Cross organisations, having as purposes the improvement of health. the prevention of disease, and the mitigation of suffering throughout the world."-Article XXV of the League of Nations. Covenant. The League of Nations Covenant has begun to work in Europe. The tremendous suffering among the civil-
The chairman of the board. Mr. ian populations of Central Europe, greatly increased during the sporadic Davision, himself sc: out the future warfare in Russia and Poland and work of the league in glowing, words.. Hungary which followed the Allies' "From the outset it was clear to us armistice with Germany, has called all that there was no institution in forth a world-wide League of Red the world so well adapted to this task Cross Societies to combat ravages of to cope with world problems of disease million persons along the line of the cordon. The Red Cross League com-. disease in Europe more awful than and disaster as the Red Cross, be-
mission pointed out that such mea- the ravages of war itself. This Red Cause of the peculiar hold which it
sures with a war going on were im- Cross League was inspired by the Eas upon the hearts of all peoples, practicable, and that the Polish army article of the Covenant quoted above, irrespective of differences of race and front was a useful cordon for on- and was brought into being, amid religion, because of its 50 years of
siderable distance. It recommended, great enthusiasm, at a ten-days' con- honourable service in all quarters of however, that the league should as- ference of leading medical experts of the globe, because of the amazing sume direction of all Red Cross efforts the world, held at Cannes (France) Sevelopment of its powers in the re-in Poland, and co-ordinate them with It was this work cent war, because the health problems other voluntary relief work; provide early last April. which Dr. Truby King, one of the of the world can never be solved by certain cleansing stations, ambulances, members, spoke so glowingly about doctors alone, nor by Governments and simple means of disinfection, and- the other day as he passed through alone, but must enlist the hearty co large, quantities of seap, clothes, and Melbourne and Sydney on his way operation of the peoples themselves. drugs: If proposed to set up a bun- This movement has in it great dred hospitals of 300 beds each, and home to New Zealand."
possibilities of adding immeasurably to supply, as a beginning, 100 nurses Kind. This statcinent represents the den will resolve itself into the estab- to the happiness and welfare of man- and 50 doctors. The sanitary cor- judgment of men qualified to speak fishment of half a dozen main observa- with the highest authority on the great tion stations, properly equipped, to Scourges of humanity, such as tuber deal with the main streams of re- culosis, malaria, venereal disease," and
fugees. typhus and other epidemics? But the, Į
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The commission found the coun-
A committee of Red Cross societies had been working at plans for a com- bination five months before the can ference at Cannes, and with the ap proval and endorsement of the Gov- ernments of the five Great Powers Great Britain, France. Italy, Japan, and the United States-had, been con- Red Cross League coes not stop at fries of Eastern Europe striving with stituted to formulate, and to pro- pose to the Red Cross societies of the fighting diseases. It aims at educat-
means pathetically insufficient to stem world, an extended programme of Reding people of all nations in such mat-the westward advance of diseases Cross activities in, the interests of ters as child welfare, nursing, sanita-
which, it unchecked, may ravage Humanity. As a result of the Cannes The Red Cross League, as evidence of stores required is a dreadful reflec
tion. and public health generally Europe. The commission's first list. conference the societies represented on the committee have now become of the necessity of this international tion of the State of Poland. founder members of the Red Cross
work,, quotes the official statement that list is League and have invited other, Red the number of people killed over four
2,000-tons of soap. Cross societies into membership the deaths in India alone from in-f
|years of war was 7,300,000, while
200.000 each of shirts, drawers, Australia, among others, has since
and blankets.L, DRAK become a member.^
fluenza were 6,000,000 in 14 months.
There is no doubt," says Mr. Davi- * HAPPINESS OF ALL MANSIND.
The periodical bulletins issued from son, that more people died. ( 14 the offices of the league at Geneva, ed in the four and a half years of war. months from influenza than were kill- copies of the first few of which have I believe that if this movement had reached Australia, make inspiring been organised two years ago, from reading The League-announces that the watchtower there would have it will establish intimate relations with the League of Nations and with the fusenza) coming, add an organised been seen this conflagration (the in- varjous Governments of the world, tack would have been made on it but that it is preserving the genius TYPHUS, PLAQUB IN POLAND., na of the Red Cmas, And is remaining a -Curely voluntary organisation, non. Hardly had the Red Cross League
political, non-governmental, and non- been formed an
annes confer
The
Ordinary equipment and tersis for 100 hospitals of 300 beds each. Drugs especially salvá-san, iodides, quinine castor oil. safol, and opium
1,000 lessivenses or other ap paratus for boiling linen.
Outer clothing for 200,000 men, women, and children, *- the Red Cross League's war on dis
Such is a picture, of the opening of
rease in Europe. The future bulletins from Geneva, reporting progeas, should be of absorbing interest.
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