A meeting was
called in the Cooper Institute, April 29th, attended by the largest
assembly of ladies ever drawn together before. It was presided over by
D. D. Field, Esq.[5] Rev. Dr. Bellows explained the object of the
meeting, and an eloquent address was made by Vice-President Hamlin. Dr.
Crawford, since Brigadier-General Crawford, who had been at Fort Sumter,
followed him. Drs. Wood, Mott, Stevens, etc., urged the merits of the
enterprise. Articles of organization were brought in, which, under the
name of the Women's Central Association of Relief, united the women of
New York in a society whose objects were to collect and distribute
authentic information with regard to the wants of the army; to establish
a recognized union with the New York Medical Association for the supply
of lint, bandages, etc.; to solicit the aid of all local associations;
and to take measures for training and securing a supply of nurses
against any possible demand of war. Dr. Mott was appointed President of
the Association; Rev. Dr. Bellows, Vice-President; G. F. Allen, Esq.,
Secretary; and Howard Potter, of Brown Brothers & Co., Treasurer.
Wise questions were put to the Chief Medical Purveyor of the U. S. Army
by the Association, to which kind and patient verbal answers were
returned. But it was evident that he regarded its solicitude as
exaggerated, and its proffer of aid as almost superfluous, believing the
Medical Department was fully aroused to its duties, and able to meet
them.
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