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Identifier: redcrossinpeacew00bartrich (find matches)
Title: The Red Cross : in peace and war
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Barton, Clara, 1821-1912
Subjects: American National Red Cross Red Cross and Red Crescent -- History
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : American national Red cross
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ecame general extending from the governor of the city who could notfind workmen even at good wages, to clean the streets of the city, tothe heads of households who found no one to cook, serve or wash, whilesuch important minor industries, as the supplying of the city with char-coal or even firewood, tvere almost wholly abandoned. Finally the moment arrived when the end of the necessity of thepermanence of the Red Cross was in sight, and, coinciding with theraising of the blockade of Havana and other large cities where wantand sickness had necessarily to be more accentuated than here, madeit a question of the greatest good to the greatest number, made itsremoval to the west end of the island a necessity. There necessarilyremained some poverty, some sickness, and some misery, but the public,and more especially the military government, had taken efficaciousmeasures to cope with these evils, and while in one sense deploringyour departure, your committee could only coincide with your views
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