The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-21

s"S nHsouBSsuGuNS IOI the iIS0NsuCuS
OF the Wounded British Soldiers.
The arrangements made by the army
medicaf department for the final ad
vance on Khartoum are most elaborate
and complete. They have been made
by Surgeon Col. Macnamara. who has
been and remains T.. NJ. o. OF the Brit
isn force. while Surgeon Gen. Taylor--a
man OF great and varied experience
has come specially out to exercise SUI
preme control i'm both British and
Egyptian divisions. The arrangements
made for the treatment OF the wounded
are az follows A medical officer is at
tached TO each battalion and one also
To the cavalry and to each battery or
artillery; then from each battalion. etc.,
are drawn 30 trained men, who retain
their arms and can be otherwise used
In emergency. whose business Is TO pick
up and give first aid to the wounded
and convey them tc the field hospitals.
which Will be at convenient distance
behind the brigades I'm some sheltered
position. Behind each brigade are TO
be five field hospitals, each with one
medical officer and accommodation for
twenty-five men These five hospitals
act as one, but are made sectional III
order that the sections may be detached
acting Independently OF the brigade.
In all these there is accommodation for
12J wounded i'm the field hospitals of
each brigade. There is also a senior
medical officer with each brigade. Lieut..
Col. Sloggett with Gen. Wauchope's
and Lieut.. Col. Hughes with Gen. Lyt-
tlcton'S command.
From the field hospitals the wounded
are to be conveyed az soon as possible.
after treatment, to barges moored of
the river bank. where there Will be ac-
commodation for 200 men. These bargcs
are at present engaged In conveying
troops To Wad Habashiyeh, our place
OF rendezvous, but so soon as this work
Is completed they will be cieansed and
dlsinfected and fitted as hospitals.
other barges will be used for operating
purposes.
Two Roentgen ray OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
are now here) will be on these barges.
OF course, apart from the barges. there
will be other hospital accommodations
on the river bank. and the barges VIII.
IL necessary. ply TO and from the Atba-
ra camp Between Khartoum and TINS
place there will be eight lines of com
munication hospitals with fifty beds,
having. of course. medical officer at
tached to each. Surgeon Major Hunter,
who until last year was attached 40
the Egyptian army, has charge of these
eight hospitals.
Here. at the Albara, ample and special
accommodation has been provided.
hospital has been built with mud
bricks with walls three feet thick and
a lofty roof. the walls being ceiied with
mating and thickly thatched with
Dhurra straw. II Is probably as cool
place as there is in the Soudan. Here
is accommodation for 200 men, but on
80 generous a scale that IL necessary
another fifty or more could be added.
without any cramping TO the inmates.
Men reaching this hospital get proper
hospital clothing and bedding. and have
sheets to their beds. Six medical om-
GERS are in charge. There is another
base hospital lower down the river at
Abadeah Fifteen miles north or Ber-
ber IN another big mud brick hospitai
with accommodation for 800 men. VINO
will be looked after by eight medical
officers. Both hence and from the AT
bara camp sick conveys will be made
up for the desert railway journey TO
Halfa. and the trains will be specially
fitted for conveying sick ana wounded.
At Halfa and at Assuan, where tnere
are breaks between rail and river, there
will be severally, a fifty-bed and a 30
bed hospital for the accommodation of
men who need rest after the journey
At Abadeah hospital. by the way, Is
another Roentgen ray apparatus ch
each gunboat Is medicai onlcer, tue
p. M. O. of the gunboats being surgeon
Major Smythe.
Every sort of drug, appliance and IN
strument that may be required mas
been plentifully supplied; and the or
ganization generally is so thorough
that there Is every reason to hope that
the complaints 30 often MADE 'ahu
made as much by the surgeons them
selves as by any one else) OF the inad-
eouacy Of the arrangements Tor the
medical treatment Of our troops on act
i've service will not find any voice as
regards the expedition to khartoum:
I have omitted TO mention that the
stretchers for carrying the wounded
and sick from place TO place nave peen
fitted with hoods, and Tommy. VINO
generally contrives to get fun OF his
own peculiar fancy out of most events.
has succeeded i'm evolving a mild put
popular jokelet out of the labor the al
terations has cost him. For some rea-
son or other IL has been the fashion at
Darmal to cast a sort of comic scorn
on the Guards, there being sort or
prevalent theory in camp that these
gallant soldiers were to be sent 10
Khartoum wrapped $50 to speaD In
cotton wool. A hit at the Guards there
fore was not to be missed when occa-
sion offered. And the soldier at work
on the stretcher hoods promptly an
swered the question as to what they
were for with, What for? Why. for
YOU and me TO carry the blooming
Guards to Khartoum, of ourse."--Lon-