Evening star., 1898-06-08
Trouble Over the Management Of
the Hospitals.
SURGEON GIRARD'S LATEST ORDER
The Report on Sanitation Not Yet
Made. Public.
FIFTH DEATH REPORTED
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

the troops, dispute between Col. Girard
and his subordinate surgeons, and the
arrival of several new brigade or division
commanders. Under the terms of the gen.
eral order governing the transfer of the
several regiments no two were to move
on any day. Yesterday, however, five
regiments were moved, two in the morn
ing. the others in the afternoon.
Among the regiments ordered to move
during the morning were the 9th Penn
sylvania and the 7th Illinois. The 9Th
Pennsylvania had left it's old camping
grounds and taken up its new quarters
before 10 o'clock. This the 7th Illino Dis
might easily have done also. Word was
received from headquarters, however, that
they were not to move, the reason assign
ed being that the artesian well, now in
the course of drilling has not yet proved
a success. At headquarters it was said, in
explanation of this, that hereafter all
regiments would remain in their present
quarters until adequate water supply
had been procured for them elsewhere.
Additional apparatus for sinking such
wells was delivered to various parts of
the camp yesterday afternoon This has
been put into operation at available points,
that the further mobilization of the
corps and its organization into permanent
brigades and divisions may be delayed.
1t has so happened that only one regiment
was moved today.
Gen. Gunther's Illness.
In consequence of Brig Gen. Francis l..
Gunther's continued illness, General Ora
ham decided last night to relievs him OF
the command of the 1st division. His place
is to be taken by Maj. Gen. NJ c. Butler.
1t is hoped that by the time the Sd division
is well organized General Gunther will have
recovered perfect health. Meanwhile he has
been assigned to the command of that di-
vision. Brig. Gen. Geo. Garrison of Co
lrmbus, Ohio, who reported to Major Cen
eral Graham several days ago, today as
sumed actual command of the I'd brigade.
The regims nts in the brigade of which he
assumes command were formerly the 9th
Massachusetts,, the 9th Illinois and the Sth
Ohio. But today, when General Garretson
first reported for active duty, the 9th sep
arats battalion, Ohio Volunteers (colored),
was added to this list. When all three reg
iments recruited up to their full
strength this will be the largest brigade in
the corps.
The commissary department has been
able by dnt of a great deal of work to
ganize the quartermaster sergeants into an
efficient and competent corps. Little COM
plant is heard, consequently, of delay in
the issue of food supplies. Today Lieut..
Col. James n. Allison was assigned as chief
of this department. Major Martin of the
.quartermaster's department and Capt. John
Little, acting chief commissary, both at
Dunn Loring, will doubtless continue the
work at that place. Major Emory McMf-
chael, who reported for duty yesterday, has
been today engaged in organizing the adju-
tant generals office Of the Sd division. This
concludes the list of arrivals at headquar-
ters today.
Order Relating to Hospitals.
Col. A. C. Girard's most recent order re-
lating to the administration of the regi-
mental hospitals was issued late yesterday
afternoon, and reads as follows:
All regimental surgeons are directed to
send any hospital tents they may have, except
one, and all medical department furniture
to the hospitals of their respective divisions
Immediately upon the receipt of this order.
The regiments of the unassigned brigade
will send them to the I'd Division hospital.
Each regiment should keep only it's medical
and surgical chests or whatever they have
to take their place and the medicines issued
to them to treat the men sick in quarters.
Receipts for the property will be given by
the executive officers of the hospitals.
Previous directions were sent out by the
surgeon-in-chief to the effect that all seri-
Gus cases were to be sent to the division
hospitals for treatment and that such treat
ment would be altogether within the prov
ince of the authorities of that hospital.
This last order has excited no small op-
position among the regimental surgeons.
The principle on which the medical depart
ment is organized. they say, is that each
regiment shall care for its own ill, and that
the regimentai hospitals shall be as fully
equipped as possible, in order to do this
work thoroughly and speedily. Since Col.
Girard first assumed control of the medical
department he has been steadily engaged
in organizing larger hospitals for the treat
these hospitals, the department has issued
almost unlimited supplies-a great deal in
excess of the issue authorized. One conse-
quence of this is that the regimental hospi-
tails have been compelled to do without
even the most necessary articles of equip
ment-cots, medicine. bandages and stick-
ing plaster. Now comes this last order, di-
recting that each regiment shall turn over
to the larger hospital, already equipped de
its expense, everything except the appard-
tus needed for treating the simplest COM
plants.
organized until the issue of the order quot
ed above Col. Girards staff surgeons and
the regimental surgeons have been growing
more and more estranged. The order in
dicated was the last step. Hereafter, if
present indications count for anything
Col. Girard can count on little support
from. the body of his practitioners
enlisted in the volunteer service.
No Serious Cases Today.
No especially serious cases have been re-
ported today. The 1st Division hospital is
practically full. Most of the patients suf-
fer from measles or mumps. Some few
have fevers and some extremely severe
colds. AS yet the authorities have not
been able to so organize the institution
into wards as to be able to give out a list
of the patients received or the complaints
from which they suffer. Private Chandler
Windsley, Company B. 4th Missouri, who
was to be operated upon for appendicitis
as noticed in The Star of that day, died
soon after the operation. 1t was discovered
afterward that Windsley was not afflicted
with appendicitis. but with some other in
ternai complaint. No death certificate has
yet been made out. At the time of the death
the authorities did not know the patients 8
name.
A fifth death has just been reported to
the camp. 1t occurred at Fort Myer Mon
Cay at noon The sufferer was Private w.
r. Bailey, Company F, I'd Tennessee. a
young maa about twenty-eight years of
age. the son of wealthy parents, living at
Brighton, England. Bailey was somewhat
OF wanderer. and enlisted with the reg