"Terrasse" of the Edward L. Trudeau Tuberculosis Sanitorium of Plessis Piquet. Opened on Christmas Day of 1917, by American Red Cross. This establishment of 20 beds (which is capable of indefinite extension) is occupied by women and children refugees sent out from Paris, many of the patients coming from the Red Cross dispensary of the 19th arrondissement of Paris, which is deemed the worst section of the city from the standpoint of vital statistics. Surrounded by a park about 40 acres, including woodlands, and with other land adjoining and other land nearby also at the disposal of the Red Cross, the site is ideal for the purpose to which it has been put
