The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-01
typhoid ConyaIescents Were Refused
Food They Craved.
THE SUPPLIES ARE ABUNDANT.
ghc Hospital Fund Ample to Purchase
All Necessary Dclicacics- Hospitals
Have Distilled Water aud Ice
Is Made From the Same.
The BcdE Arc Com-
Portable.

wAsHNGTON. Aug. 8i.-socroiary Al
por to-day received he report Of General
II. " Boynion upon the state of affairs
On the hospitals a, Camp Thomas. Tho
report is dated August 29th
Tho general Says that bis instructions
were To- report the number of sick char
ucter of illness. number of tents. floor
Space per patient. tho adequacy and aui'-
ability Of attendants and whether the
medical officers have discharged their
duties faithfully and with intelligence
uud 10 make any recommendation in tho
Interest Of an concerned Iie says that
ho visited am the hospitals in the camp
without giving notice of his purpose.
Gays General Boyntou:
a FAIR STANDARD.
"Bcucying the death list of this camp
10 afford an excellent standard. by
which to measure lts condition as to
health and hospital service, "a fun report
was obtained of all deaths in the camps
ind iu lts hospitals since IT'S establish
mcnt. the middle of April last. The re-
suit shows "a total death list Of JOS mp
~ the 22d Of this month, when the
breaking up of This camp began Be
pnd volunteers fully 5000 troops have
been in camp in the Chickamauga Park
THE HOSPITALS.
THE report takes up iu dctails first the
awo permanent hospitals, Letter and
Stcrubcre. and states with the greatest
minute Dnoss the exact accommodation af-
1nrded by cach Tho first is at Crlwhsh
Springs. under charge of Major Carter.
and was converted from large summer
resort hotel into hospital. receiving the
worse typhoid cases from the camp
1tach patient has abundant room. woven
wire and hair mattresses. and abundant
hed-clotling. Tho ventilation is perfect
plumbing entirely new. and bathing fa-
siiffies amDio. The number OF attendants,
-Yhcn ..li are ~cll. is entirely sttisfac.ors,
aud attendants are on the way Co take
the places OF those who arc broken
down
PLENTY or MILK
Major Cartcr has secured herd of
COWS. and hls arrangements for pastur-
inr them without expense 10 tho Gov
.crnmcnt. Tie has sufficient money from
t1o hospital fund to buy whatever is
wanted in the way of milk, Ice and
other dclicacics. There has been at this
hospital fuu supplies of ice milk. COM
vnIssary stores and dclic1Cics such as the
sick ought to have. The entire hospital
is furnished with distilled water. and the
A'N NNfN ln ilINH from NirilIIfN water
THE sewerage of tho hospital is excellent
and. contrary TO persistent assertions
none of the sewerage has ever drained
into tho Chick8mauga river or approach
cd 80 at amy point.
Major Carter has q corps of doctors
which hc regards as amply sufficient to
care for oll tho patients in the hospital
and reports them as faithful and efi-
ciCnt in the performance of their duties.
MOST COMPLETE
Taking up the Stcruhcrg hospital I'm
charge of Major Citizen. General BOynton
shows that DO is one OF the most COM
piete field hospitals ever seen according
90 veterans of the last war. All the tents
are closely no0rad and they are separat-
ed. Az present only four men are in any
fonts. and boz addition 90 the tents there
aro nine largo board payilions. Every
tont and pavilion has woven wire mat
rcssos from hedsteads aud hair mattresses.
There are especial diet cooks four cold
storage rooms for dclacacios separate
refriporators for oach row OF fonts and
every proper measure of sanitation is
observed with respect 90 the sinks.
l'urthcr tho report says:
"lhe whole place is most carefully poe
liccs daily ANA the whole establishment
Within and without its permanent build-
Sings aud lts tents is in the most perfect
order
SUPPLIES ABUNDANT
"S.nce the establishment of This hosni-
tal everything asked for in the way OF
supplies of every kind has been promptly
furnished. Sixteen barrels of distilled
water are purchased daily and patients
get nothing hut distilled water to drink
From three to lvc toms of ice are used
daily. Three hundred gallons of milk are
purchased daily. and $50 gallons furnished
hy tho Red cross Society.
IAN money necessary for the purchase
of dellcacics ot every kind suitable to tho
sick. has been furnished by order of Cen
cral Stcwbcre. a careful inquiry dcvcl-
oped tho fact Chat au varieties off medical
supplies required or asked for were furn-
ishcd both from Washington ami from
medical headquarters at the camp with
with the greatest nrompnoss"
10 De- stated in addition that aN the hos
pltal refuse is burnt in "a crematory and
according t0 Major Clifton. am but one
thousand patients now sick in the entire
Camn could he safely moved now. The
diseases are moro OF a. typho-malarial
character than typhoid fever strictly
the death ratio being very low only about
,Iaht ner cent of the worse cases. The
Flrsf division Geld hospital in charge of
Major Drake is hoored with planned lum-
hor and if is ass clean as Us possible be-
ing scrubbed with carboiic acid and
treated with bichlorido of mercury every
An tho patients are on cots and never
have hecn ON the ground for any length
Of time None OF the sixty cents allow
ance per man for delicacios has been
used. as it was not needed.
The report states that I'm times when
the hospital was crowded there was
lack of nurses. the deficiency being sup
piled hy details from the regiments. which
were not as satisfactory as trained
nurses.
THE EQUIPMENTS.
General BOynton shows this hospital
has porcelain lncd baths stcrllzed and
iced water and every convenince In the
malignant typhoid ward there have been
hut two deaths out OF thirty cases in
three weeks. lie says that both tho
medical officers and hospital attendants
al this hospital performed their duty
with energy and efficiency. and the best
test Of an this shown by the fact that 50