The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-21

company in regard to their breakfasts
and suppers. Captain Swatek, replied
that he had eaten the same food given
the men and that it was satisfactory to
him. He said, howayer, that he did not
ordinarily inspect the meats of the men.
Sergeant A. II. LorenZon, of the same
company admitted that there was some
complaint among the men, but ha Thought
the complaints were due 10 the fact
that the men were hOmesick.
HOSPITAL GROUNDS NEG
LECTED.
Colonel w. r. Durbin, Of the Hmairee
and Sixty-frst Indiana, said there were
few complaints from his men and
that they were generally trivial. He
smoke especially of the grounds of the
Third division hospital, saying that they
had for time been very poorly kept
There has. however, been vast i'm
movement since DR.. Clendennin hac
succeeded DIR. Jesurum. of the Rough
Riders. Daily complaint had been made
by him, but it had apparently gone un-
needed. Colonel Durbin also said there
had been one or two complaints of neg
lect of his men at this hospital, and that
feet that men who had been sent to the
hospital on Tuesday last had had nc
medical attention up to the following
day. He had called attention to the
condition of affairs and the surgeon in
charge of the ward had said that he
had visited the men, but that the pa
tients probably did not know he was .
physician.
Colonel Letcher Hardin. of the Sixth
Missouri, also complained that the
grounds of the Third division hospital
had not been well kept. He said that
they were bad under DR.. Vaughn, bet
tor under DIR. Jesurum and still much
better under DIR. Clendennin. He
thought the army ration should contain
more vegetables and less meat
RED CROSS AID AGAIN.
DR.. Alexander Kent. pastor Of the
Peoples church at Washington, and
field agent at Jacksonville for the Red
Cross was questioned concerning the
operations of the Red Cross at this
point. He said he had been received very
ordially by the army surgeons, and he
had co-operated with them. He had
noticed the absence of sheets and pillow
cases at the Second division hospital In
its ~arIy history. This was in midsum-
mer, and many men lay uncovered be
cause it was too hot to use their blan-
kets. He had supplied the deficiency
and the supply had been thoroughly
appreciated by the doctors. There was
also at that time a shortage of hospital
tents and of food suitable to typhoid
fever patients. He had undertaken tC
eurnlv the deficiency and had distributed
two car loads of the necessary deli
ca cies.
'It seemed" he said, cas- if the hospi-
tai was arranged upon smaller scale
than was demanded and as a consc.
upon the Red Cross to supply the defic-
iency." DIR. Kent said he had heard
many complaints concerning misconduct
at the hospitals, and many of them ap-
parently well-vouched for, but they had
not generally proved well-founded when
investigated. Replying to a question,
he said he thought it had been verv diff
fcult to get medical men of sufficient
administrative ability to manage such
institutions as the division hospital. Be
fore the female nurses were secured the
nurses who were men of the hospital
corps. were not capable. They were
not Intelligent as a class. and while some
of them were doggedly faithful, they
failed to meet the requirements.
FLIES IN SICK MEMS MOUTHS.
They did not for instance, seem to re-
gard il as of consequence if flies were
crawling in and ont of sick mans
mouth with impunity, and he had seen
as many as six cases of this kind Mt one
time. Since the trained nurses had been
secured the sick were better cared for
than at home. He thought the Govern
ment should send cows to Cuba in ad-