Surgical Dressings Inspected and Packed Here for Overseas. The exceptional work and the great amount of it being done in the surgical dressings department of the Red Cross should be known by all who are interested in the work of the Red Cross. There have been $375.00 in fees turned into the treasury from those who have taken the course in surgical dressings. Including the class at present under instruction, 130 people have graduated in the work. The course is given under the very able instruction of Mrs. H.L. Cruttenden who not only has the office of chapter instructor, but has as well full control of the department of surgical dressings. This course is given for the benefit of those who wish to make themselves more efficient in the work. Each of the colleges has sent out graduates in the course who now have charge of work rooms elsewhere. Everyone who takes the course pays a fee of $3.00, all of which is put into the local treasury and is used to help pay the expenses of the department. For July and August the surgical dressings department was asked to send in 500 oakum pads and 3,500 drains. This apportionment will be met in full by September 1, if the ladies rally to the work as they have done in the past. Since January 1, 1918, 50,836 dressings have been packed and shipped to Minneapolis headquarters. The work in this department has been so uniformly good that the exceptional privilege of final inspection in Northfield, and packing in paper bags for over-seas shipment has been granted the Northfield chapter. This part of the work, the packing and shipping, is done by Dr. Cruttenden, who spares neither time nor labor to help make the surgical dressings department one of the most efficient in the state. Mrs. H.L. Cruttenden.
