To the U. S. Public Health Service 284
To the Red Cross nurses 604
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Total 19,877
The Red Cross has furnished equipment to approximately 12,000 nurses and lay women personnel engaged in foreign war service, and to nurses in cantonments and naval hospitals in this country, at an approximate cost of $2,000,000.
Personnel equipped by the Red Cross for overseas duty, from the beginning of the war to December 31st, 1918, at the following cost:
| Army | $2,031,120.00 |
| Navy | 60,120.00 |
| Red Cross | 138,960.00 |
| 12,546 nurses—Total cost | $2,230,200.00 |
As to the work of the American Red Cross Clara Barton says: “History records the wonderful achievements of the Red Cross, the greatest of relief organizations, though it cannot record the untold suffering which has been averted by it.” As to the Red Cross war-nursing, she says: “There can be no estimate of the misery assuaged and the deaths prevented by the unselfish zeal and devotion of the nurses of the Red Cross.” In prophecy she says:
And what would they do if war came again?
The scarlet cross floats where all was blank then.