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Clinics make 1,467 home visits. NER Weekly, 13 Nov 1920.
Location
Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey
Year
1920
Item Detail
A reduced appropriation cut the Constantinople child welfare nursing staff from two American and thirteen local nurses to one American and eight local, and E. Graff reports that the six clinics still made 1,467 home visits. C. F. H. Crathern describes George E. White's Marsovan unit, where 450 boys and girls divided their days between school and trades. Reports from Trebizond compare the Armenian, Greek and Turkish orphanages there on schooling, trades and sanitation. A notice lists by name the Caucasus workers who stayed at their posts after the fall of Kars, and another warns personnel against taking children home to the United States.
Context
The Near East Relief Weekly Bulletin was a four-page weekly printed in Constantinople for the organization's own staff. It continued The Acorne, the bulletin of the American Committee for Relief in the Near East, and took the new title with Vol. II, No. 42 on 23 October 1920, when the organization itself was renamed Near East Relief.
Because it was written for people already in the field and not for donors at home, the Weekly is plainer than anything Near East Relief printed in America. Station reports give the numbers (e.g., children fed, beds occupied, pairs of shoes made, tons landed at Batoum) and the personnel notes record who arrived, who transferred, who married and who died.
The run covers the fall of Kars, the landing of Russian refugees in Constantinople in the winter of 1920, the famine in Armenia through 1921 and 1922, and the French withdrawal from Cilicia.
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Holding Institution
Columbia University Library
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Attribution
Digitized by Columbia University Libraries; available through HathiTrust (Public Domain).
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Notes
Masthead: 'Near East Relief. Vol. II. No. 45. 25 Rue Taxim, Pera, Constantinople. November 13, 1920.'
Most of the people described in these pages were survivors of the genocide of the Ottoman Armenians and of the killing and deportation of Greeks and Assyrians in the same years. The bulletin does not use the word "Genocide," which was not coined until 1944. Its writers say "the deportations", "the massacres", or simply "the troubles", and often say nothing at all about how a child came to be an orphan. Where an issue documents the events or their aftermath, the record indicates this in the Subject field. The period's own vocabulary is kept in the original article titles and in quoted phrases.
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Document Contents
'Medical Commitee of Constantinople Unit', signed E. Graff, reports that a reduced appropriation cut the nursing staff from two American and thirteen local nurses to one American and eight local nurses, while six clinics still made 1,467 home visits; C. F. H. Crathern describes George E. White's Marsovan unit, 450 boys and girls dividing their days between school and trades, and J. K. Marden's hospital; notices establish the Caucasus Branch office in Constantinople and describe Mennonite plans for an orphanage, hospital beds and general relief in South Russia; signed reports by Robert Stapleton, Katherine H. Gillespie and Jessie White compare the Armenian, Greek and Turkish orphanages at Trebizond, their schools, trades, health and sanitation; 'The Acorne Shop' advertises work made by local women; 'Adoption of Children' warns personnel against taking children to the United States; Sherwood Eddy's meetings and the forty-one Caucasus workers who stayed after the fall of Kars are listed; 'Personnel Notes' records departures and assignments.