The herald., 1898-09-01
REPORTS TO AILGlER
OF Conditions Prevailing i'm the
Hospital Camps
Sanitation Is Good and Patients Are We'll Cared
for Criticism is Based ON Ignorance of
the Treatment REQUIRED


By
WASHINGTON Aug Secretary Agr today received the report
Of Gen. Boynon the st h Of affairs in the hospitals at Camp
Thomas. The report dated August 29th.
The general that he visited all the hospitals in the
without giving notice Of his and adds Believing the death
list Of afford excellent standard by which its
conditions to health and hospital full report obtained
the middle April last The total death list Of 1913
the ss this month when the breaking up Of the camp began
dlers have been in camp in the Chickamauga park"
FULL DETAILS GIVEN
The report takes up the permanent hospitals
Letter and Sernbg then state with the greatest mnuten the
exact afforded by each The first is at Cawh springs
under charge Of Maj Carter and converted from hotel
into hospital receiving the typhoid from the Each
ant oedcothe The ventilation perfect the plumbing entirely
all WELL entirely satisfactory way
take the places Of those who are broken down.
THE sTERNBERG HOSPITAL
Taking up Sternberg hospital charge Maj Griaan
Bynton shows to be the complete field hospitals
according to the of the It is stated addition,
all the hospital refuse burned crema and according Maj
Gan all of the 200 patients sick in the entire could be
safely moved The diseases character
than OF typhoid fever strictly the death being low about
per cent of the worst cases.
FIRST DIVISION HOSPITAL
The First Division hospital charge Frake
planned lumber and quite clean possible All the patients
and have the ground length
Of the 60 cents allowed deaces
not needed Gen. Boynton shows that there full refrigerator
city this hospital poceannd baths water
and In the malignant typhoid ward there
but deaths out of thirty three
medical officers and hospital attendants this hospital
eely performed their duties with energy and efficiency
The next hospital inspection the Third Division hospital
charge Maj Thomas Clark Here the attendants
sufficient though the earlier there enough surgeons
attendants The grounds excellent condition. oean
most Of the tents fored and all the between the
ais For time the hospital week behind in obtaining its med
M supplies but this before the had collected
ca stores in great quantities.
Taking the last field hospital that Of the Third Second
division under Maj Smith, the states that the fftyhree
all occupied though during the epidemic
they crowded.
ORIGIN OF STORIES
Leaving the details about the hospitals the proceeds fol-
lows n Of the hospitals opportunities occurred for discoveries
what undoubtedly originated the sensational which
been printed the country to the effect that patients the hospitals
lacked sufficient food and had been the
on the wards where the onvaescen typhoid patients
of the constantly asking for food and
constantly denied everything except lighter
which alone be safely administered recovering typhoid pa
tents There has been lack perfect food the hospitals
competent preparing present. only
has been the necessity for such dieting the disease
be easily observed that the conditions set forth this
~ present conditions
Undoubtedly there have riou inconvenience
Of the greatest crowdng there lack
which make that u condition Of affairs which,
nsparabe from the field hospitals
armies when all concerned themselves
the