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Trachoma hospital reports its first cures. NER Weekly, 5 Mar 1921.
Location
Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey
Year
1921
Item Detail
Emma D. Cushman reports the trachoma hospital's first cures. Organized in November but not used for the purpose until January, it admitted children in alternate groups of ten Greek and ten Armenian boys from 18 January until it held two hundred, each under treatment twice a day, and three had been discharged cured. Glee L. Hastings counted 3,000 Greek and 3,000 Armenian refugees at Broussa besides many Turkish ones, 2,400 of the Greeks having arrived within the previous month or two. A supply shipment from Constantinople included 274,680 pounds of flour.
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. III. No. 9. 25 Rue Taxim, Pera, Constantinople. March 5, 1921.'
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
Emma D. Cushman reports the first three trachoma cures after the hospital admits 200 children for twice-daily treatment; the American Sailors' Club serves sixty children from the Ortakeuy camp; Glee L. Hastings describes 3,000 Greek and 3,000 Armenian refugees at Broussa, alongside Turkish refugees, and lists a large shipment of blankets, clothing, shoes, soap, beans and milk; nearly 300 Broussa orphans move by truck and boat to Bardizag; Annie Davies recounts the treatment of Chaleel at the Adana hospital; short pieces cover swings and a public performance at the Adana orphanage, major food shipments, the inauguration of President Harding, a school flag sent to Beshiktash and Russian-Armenian refugees from Batoum; personnel notices record departures and new field assignments.