Identifier: womenwarwork00fras (find matches)
Title: Women and war work
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Fraser, Helen. (from old catalog) Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner. DLC (from old catalog) National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) DLC (from old catalog)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, G.A. Shaw
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ulance had the same system of ambulanceworkers and V. A. D.s to call on. As the war proceeded it was quite clear thatthe nursing staffs, though we had secured 3,000more trained nurses through the Red Cross inthe first few weeks of the war, would be quiteinadequate, and it was found necessary to useV. A. D.s and to open V. A. D. Hospitals, mostof them being established in large private houseslent for the purpose. Within nine months therewere 800 of these at work in every part of Eng-land, Scotland and Wales. The V. A. D.s suf-fered a little at first from confusion with theladies who insisted on rushing off to France aftertaking a ten days course in first aid. We hadsuffered a great deal from that kind of thing inthe South African War and were determined tohave no repetition of it, so they were firmly anddecisively removed from France without delay. To get more trained nurses, rules were relaxedand the age limit raised. Many nurses, retiredand married, returned to work, but very quickly
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Hospitals—Red Cross—V. A. D. 57 it was perfectly clear our trained nurses wereinadequate in number for the great work beforeus, and in less than a year in most hospitalsevery ward had one V. A. D. worker assistingwho had been nominated by her Commandantand County Director, and in March, 1915, theHospitals were asked by the Director Generalof the Army Medical Service to train V. A. D.sin large numbers as probationers, for three orsix months, to fit them for work under trainednurses. Every possible woman, trained or par-tially trained, was mobilized and thousands havebeen trained during the three years of war, andV. A. D. members have been drafted to militaryand Red Cross Hospitals, abroad and at home,in addition to doing the work of the V. A. D.Hospitals. A V. A. D. Hospital with a hundredbeds will have two trained nurses, and allthe other work is done by V. A. D.s. The Com-mandant-in-Chief now is Lady Ampthill. DameKatharine Furse was Commandant-in-Chief untilquite recently, but i

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