FOUNDER OF THE RED CROSS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XIX, 7 November 1896, Page 24

FOUNDER OF THE RED CROSS.

Henri Dunant, tbe founder of the Red Cross movement and the originator of tbe International Geneva Convention, is announced to be lying in poverty and sickness in his old age in a small foreign hospital. * Something has been done, we believe,’ says tbe British Medical Journal, * out of the modest funds by some of the Red Cross societies to relieve his most urgent wants, and we are glad to see that Herr Rummelin, the Burgomaster of Stuttgart, has formed a committee for the purpose of making some further provision for the philanthropist, who, after rendering such great services to humanity, has fallen upon evil days in his old age. ’