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set up.

Each child was given a bottle of milk in addition to the regular me nu. Diet kitchens were provided in three barracks build- ings for very small children and babies, as the Cooks and Bakers School kitchen was not large enough for this kind of service.

Registration was carried out after dinner, when the women and

children were in their barracks. This was undertaken by the Rød

Cross officer in charge, assisted by volunteers from American women living on the Post. Our workers found morale high. Everyone was cheerful and uncomplaining after the arduous journey from Hong Kong. In anticipation of service requirements, arrangements had

been made with the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation to place an exchange man in the Red Cross Office on the Post.

Communications provided a cable clerk to receive messages. Sanitary Steam Laundry provided laundry service. Laundry facil- ities, and wash women paid by the Red Cross, were also provided

at each barracks building.

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The stock of the Post Exchange branch was sold out in about

two hours on the morning after arrival. The Red Cross purchased a generous supply of stamps and two volunteer workers stationed on the porch of one of the buildings attended to the dispatch of mail. Information desks were placed in each barracks staffed by

British women of the Manila colony under the direction of Mrs. Wyatt-Smith, the wife of the British Consul-General.

boards for notices and a mail box were also placed in each build-

ing. Some thirty or forty volunteer workers among the McKinley

officers' wives and Manila British women visited all barracks

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