New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-01


| fruItv uhatAver in obtaining medical supplies
| ~ every character The Red cross has mao
LIBERAL gifts to his hospital. and triehas all IN
! Jinresota have sent great quantities Oh uV!i
cacies This hospital fund for July amonnten o., ~
s415 and with that u has been possible ~ rnr
| otase al the milk needed
r-puotnINc ARMY SURGEONS.
Taking up the last Of the field hospitals. that
! NJ the Third Corps. second DIVISION uli1e'
| Major smith tho report states that the NV
three tents are AT present not MI Occupied
though during tho epidemic ~ measles theF
| were crowded There were no Red cross nurses
! and \ detail ~ two women from m" ''at'e-
uooga association has visited the hospital DALI
~ cook tho lighter food for the SICK. When thH
hospital vas crowded the number NJ attendants
vas insuNiciert There were also strong com
plants Of the failure n get medical and surgi-
cal supplies in the earlier DAYS before the Gov
eminent had been able 70 furnish itself and
vben # was impossible - avoid delays incident
n rushing supplies 70 great Army camps The
raouisition papers on file. however. show that
| the hospital officers made avery effort N obtain
fun supplies
| Leaving the detail. about the hospitals thu
roport proceeds 10 treat tha whole subject gen
orally as follows
In two Of the hospitals opportunities occurred
! for discovery of what undoubtedly originator
l of the sensational STORIES WnlCH HuN
! been printed over the country to the erect mat
| patients in the hospitals lacked SUFFICIENT 1000:
| and in many cases had been on the Veiee "
/ starvation In the wards where the ConNdlSs-
| cent tvrho'i fever patients We've found many
| OF the men constantly asking fcr 1000,
| and matter Of course everything eNcep'
the lighter forms Of food. which can alone re
| safely administered 10 recovering typho'o pa
| tients, was denied to them 40,
This refusal Of food throughout the hospitals
by which alone as is perfectly understood. can
| ba li,-os of
! been distorted into the cry when mas p.n
| spread throughout the country that paten,e
| were being starved iu the Government hosptae.
There has been no lack CT propeT loco u, ~ =,
| hospitals and competent cooks for preparing II
| have been present. and the on!y reason tof oe-
| pripine the patients NJ what 50 many ~ men,
| have Clamored fer has been the necessity o'
! such dieting as tho disease demands
7, viii he observed that the conditions SCI
| forth i'm this report are mainly present condi-
| t,ons II has not heretofore fallen within m"
| range Of my duties AZ this PARK IN MAKE or',-
| icsl observations of hospital Conottlons. ~
| though as Il matter Of course. many FEATURES or
| this division Of camp administration have fallen
! under my notice. | am constrained 70 peneNe
| that there has been no neglect on the part of
! either the medical the quartermaster depart.
! ments To furnish such supplies as have reaCheu
| the camp.
DETRIMENTAL OFFICERS BLAMED.
II VIII ho observed that the report IN each case
has been made with reference to the maximum
number of patients in each hospital. and so Tar
&c u D,as nossible TO obtain the conditions then
| existing they are set forth in this report. Tn
| doubtedlv there have been serious inconven-
fences and at times of the greatest crowdinE.
those lacks of COnVenienCeS and full ATTENDANCE
which go TO make up that painful CONDITION Oh
affairs which, as every veteran Knows are III.
separabe from the field Hospitals Oh Era, tlea'
armies when all concerned exert ,henl-
selves TO secure the comfort or the pauehtS'
These are conditions which in times or rapid III.
crease of disease--a condition which was reacheo
n 10 ANN
filth which too many OF the regnehldi oiiCvio
allowed 10 dominate their camps, IN spite OF tiie
| orders which would have preVen.ea an, an t ,ho
trouble from the Surgeon General and from the
commanding officers of this camp-create STU
alton which cannot be Immediately ameiiorateu'
So far from believing as result OF my Cd
servatons that medical officers have been heart
less or negligent, l believe that these oHiceIs
and the hospital attendants as whoie ma, naoe
exer.ed themselves to discharge their duties
faithfully 1t would seem as II this were sur
fcently shown by the fact that they nave
worked increasingly until a quarter OF the whcle
force has itself been stricken by disease result
ing from their eXhausting labors,
My attention was especially directeo in ths
| order which received to some remarks credited
10 General Terry, Surgecn-Cieneral OF the state
the canlp OF the Sth New-York. General Terry
is reported In THE Network Herald TO nave
said as he was leaving Camp Thomas:
TERRY's ALLEGED STATEMENTS.
General Terry found the camp in a bad SAM
tary condition. 1t Is situated in an open field In
| the hot sun. with no water 10 be found within
five miles The water the men drink is hauled
in barrels and is Of a kind that in New-York
would be refused bathing water. This stun
! is what the drink daily. and is declared to
| be the chief cause " the sickness
General Terry told mo that it was the most
terrible sight he had ever witnessed and that a,
| found place filthy ard dirty He said h"
would insist on the Sth Regiment being returned
| TO New-YOrk. and had wired Governor Black
and the Secretary Of War Of the situation.
III the soldiers ara not soon taken from
| Chickamauga Park they will soon follow the
twenty-fou who died yesterday and nearly as
| many to-day.
Camp Thomas hospitals arc unclean and
badly located Nourishing food Is lacking, as
| VOL proper medical attention. The food is
| Regular Army nations, badly cooked Nor" than
! two hundRd patients have often been made IN
| get along with one hundred and ff'y Mario"
| cots. They are simply laid on lit'ers not six
| inches from the ground Few. II any. NJ the
| hospital tents have plank floors
| BOYNTON ANSWERS TIE CHARGES
| This camp WAS removed TO the open field at
| tho special reques' If The officers concerned. As
they were inclined tn think that their oamr In
| the open woods had something to 10 with the
sickness Of their Here it may be pertinent
| 70 remark in passing that this regiment had at
| the time Of it's moving. and had maintained.
| CT the fthiest and most disgusting canteens 10
he found in the entire Army. From personal
| observation of this canteer some two weeks
| since. am prepared 30 assert that - was little
| better than serving beer to the soldiers Of the
Sth New-York in hoGpen. II Is also true that
| the reports show thst since this regiment moved
! It's health conditions have improved
| Instead Of there bArg 80 water within FIVE miles
| Of this regiment, two Of the largest and finest
| springs Of clear water in this entire ctuntrv.
| pronounced rv competent medical snd ChcmiCa
| authority ~ be pure water. are less than two
| miles from their oamr
| The Sth New-York had been camped upon the
| grounS where General Terry observed il less
| than ten days i was perfectly clear ground
] when they occupied II, and had Zee previ-
| ously occupied BY any troops. If II had been
| transformed within this brief er.od b. tn,
| HOODS ~ the Sth Now York INTO e rloCe nthier