New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-12
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pondence OF The Medical News.


Care Received by the sick-There has been at
on the bare floor Mattresses there have always
been in plenty have seen e6 The hospital when It
there has been here and there commode which
should have been empued; there have been men
hands and PeTond 40 p 10
help have heard complaining that they
were not Immediately waited upon. which is not
to be n one spSn ee
distracted patients and friends bitterly complaining
DR. Forwood and Dr. Brown have been abominabiy
abused The patients and friends DID not know
and TO Dr. Brown either totally or partially uncon-
seious and WITHOUT even piece OF paper to eslab-
WINGED that first there was sad lack OF method
and care in keeping the records. But this has been
AS to the death rate. This has been grossly and
se,5 cases had been receVed TSefe
had been up to the same hour 80 deaths. making
should satisfy even the. most fault finding 1t is
very small in any Ease. but incredibly small when
sdered and bears Striking tribute TO the rs core
received in the hospital
regiments goes their state could be and is being
improved Division hospitals are now established
men of the different divisions Will soon be as well
cared for as the sick in the big hospital.
This brings me to the question OF r-gimental hos
pitfalls. and whatever may be the objection TO them
In the a o ,sey should be part Of The medical
length OF time. With the permission OF Colonel
Roosevelt. established one for our regiment and
do not hesitate 70 say that IL has been not hing
short OF n blessing the sick and We have sens,
number OF men really restored 10 health Through
the care and nursing here received Our rcatmnnt
has consisted largely, II not entirely in caref,i
dieting The Cuban experience left MANY with
etomachs and intestinal canals in a frighfuI state
The general health Of this regiment Is moro tSa,
satisfactory, and Indeed. tina, OF ali the Rooms
Quartered here is surprisingly good ''
Major Brown spoke very ap7recatrelv Of tha
work done and the aid rendered by the Red Cross
end the Women's National War Relief Association
Not the slightest trace OF official jealousy was n
parent: on the contrary. his tribute was most gen
erors and frank. OF the sick by far the LARGEST
number OF malaria: they outnumbered
all the other sick including the "of1ce patients"
ten or even twenty 10 one. The worst and most In
tractable OF malaria have been found in the
soldiers from Tampa. Many Of these passed
into typhoid state. but were not true cases OF
enterlc fever. True typhoid fever steadily de-
creasng both In the number OF and in the
malignancy o! the type The death rate In the hos
pital falling daily. In nearly all cases OF both
typhoid and malaria the disease germs were pres
emf In the system before the soldiers had landed.
Much of the fatality from perniclous malaria,
fever in Cuba and elsewhere has been due TO tho
fact that great many of the surgeons. especiallj
the volunteers from the New England and North
ern States. not familiar with the heroic treat 4.
ment necessary They gave three and five. arc
sometimes grains of quinine every two or three
hours when they should have given twenty grains
at O dose or even until the disease was
checked. To those who have practised medicine