The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-27

third attack, which may prove Idldl.
Add smallpox and the likelihood Of bu-
bonic plague and cholera to this cate
CORY and the outlook is not cheering.
The Californians have at last estab-
Iished a hospital of their own
in the suburbs of Ermita, almost on
the seashore and fronting on the Gale
Real It is a roomy place and the SICK
bows. who were moved there to-day, are
delighted with it. The place is cool and
airy. and the sea breeze blows In upon
the beds of the ratients, carrying heal
ing in it's breath. The Callfornians.
even against the adverse conditions or
garrison life, are carrying their record
as the healthiest regiment in the army.
I give you herewith a list of the SICK
in the regiment. Compare it with old
Camp Dewey days, when the company
that carried one man a day on SICK re-
port was the exception:
THE BAND.
Malarial fever 2.
FIRST BATTALION.
Company M-Dysentery /, pemphigus 1,
sore feet 5; total T.
acute eczema l, general debility l, tonsin-
tbs 1, malarial fever 1, dysentery 2; total Z.
Company E-Palpitation of heart 1, gas
trio fever 1. typhoid fever l, malarla1
fever 8, dysentery /; total Z.
Company Wounded (recoveringl 8,
sore leg l, sore eyes l, sore thumb l, dys-
L,
SECOND BATTALION.
Company B-Recovering from wound l,
climatic sores /, sore feet l, dysentery 3,
malarial fever 6; total u:
Company D-Sore feet ], typhoidd a. ma
Iarial fever ID, dySentery 4; total ~.
Company I-Sore feet A. kidney trouble /,
typhoid fever 2, malarial fever IL, dysen-
terry 2; total 10. -,
ney trouble 1, malarial fever 1. dysentery
o 'o'@' : THIRD BATTALION.
Company K-mumps ], malarial fever 8,
dysentery 8; total Il.
COMPANY C-Sore feet 4. typhoid fever 2,
malarial fever 4, dysentery /; total g.
Company G-Pleurisy l, rupture l, diar-
rhea i, dysentery 2 malarial fever 8; to-
&C Company F-Dysentery 1. malaria1 fever
49, pemphfgus 1; total 10.
Grand total, 139.
classified by diseases, the totals for
the regiment at this date are
Dysentery -. ............................ a
Sores, mostly climatic ..................... Il
Typhoid fever OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Miscellaneous -. ........''..'.'..'.....'... IL
Total -. Observation-Disclosures. I39
Those. cases of organic trouble shown
here are among the recruits for the
most part The old men of the regi-
the results of hardships endured in the
capture of Manila. 1t remained for the
medical gentlemen examining recruits
at San Francisco to send into the trop
les men so diseased they would not
keep health possibly even in SO tenn
perate an atmosphere as that of Cali
fornia for very long. Little, however,
can be expected when man is passed
fit for a soldiers duty who has hem
orrhage of the lungs on the second day
after he landed at Manila. That is
what happened to one of the recruits
days guard duty and has been on sick
call ever since. Among those who came
down on the Pennsylvania were several
men who were rejected on the first
medical examination.
BY the way, do not send the names
of the sick because SO long as mother
does not really know her boy is i'll she
will have the satisfaction of hoping he
is not.
The boys are bearing up we'll. No
set could do better in the field or in
garrison Reflect that this is the
and you can picture to yourself what
the others are. The men who are in
the hospital are as nothing to the sick
in quarters-the men too i'll to work
and not i'll enough to go to bed
The Californians at last given the
care they should have had all along
and would have had If their own Off
GERS had been given the care of them,
are the most fortunate regiment The
Minnesotas, poor boys, are the most
unfortunate. Whatever they did on
the day Manila fell, they are doing
noble work now. They police the city
by night and by day, going into all the
dens and death traps, into all the filthy
holes and dirty corners, exposed con-
stantly to a thousand unknown dangers
and nameless infections, and they do
their work well and faithfully. The |
atonement has been made, is being
made daily in the sick list and the
death rate of the Thirteenth Minnesota. |