The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-01

Washington. Sept. 1.-General III. "
Boynton reports upon the state Of affairs
In the hospitals at Camp Thomas as fol.
lows: Believing the death list OF this
camp to afford an excellent standard by
which to measure its conditions as Ia
health and hospital service. full re-
port was obtained Of all deaths In the
camp and in its hospitals since its es-
tablishment. the middle of April last.
The result shows total death list of l9S
up to the 22d of this month. when the
breaking up of this camp began. Be
tween these dates. including regulars
and volunteers fully $4,000 troops have
been in camp In Chickamauga. The rec
ord OF burials In the National cemetery
at Chattanooga shows total of 120 vol
unteers and two regular soldiers. One
of the latter was killed by falling from a
railway train"
The report takes up In detail first the
two permanent hospitals, Letter and
Sternberg and states with the greatest
minuteness the exact accommodation
afforded by each. The first is at Craw-
fish Springs. under charge OF Major
Carter. and was converted from sum
mer hotel into O hospital, receiving the
worst typhoid cases from the camp.
Each patient has abundant room, with
woven wire and hair mattresses. The
plumbing is entirely new and the bath
ing facilities are ample. The number OF
atte ndants, when all are well. is entirely
A. e. - - A.. a.. ~, lx1
way to take the places of those who are
broken down. Major Carter has secured
a herd Of cows, and has arrangements
for pasturing them without expense to
the government. He has sufficient money
from the hospital fund to buy whatever
Is wanted In the way Of milk, ice and
other delicacies. There have been at
this hospital FULL supplies Of Ice. milk.
ccmmissary stores and delicacies such
as the sick ought TO have, and the funds
have enabled him to buy all that has
been needed in the way of canned and
potted goods. soups. clam Juice, sage.
matted milk. eggs. koumiss, preserves.
relishes, ginger. oil, appolinaris, cham
payne and claret. The entire hospital Is
furnished with distilled water. and the
ice used Is made from distilled water.
The sewage OF the hospital Is excellent,
and, contrary to persistent assertions,
none of the sewage has ever drained into
the Chickamauga river or approached
it at any point. Major Carter has corps
Of doctors which he regards as amply
SUFFICIENT to care for all the patients in
the hospital. and reports them as faith
full and efficient In the performance of
their duties. -
Taking up the Sternberg hospital, in
charge Of Major Diffen. General Boyn-
ton shows that II is one of the most com
plete field hospitals ever seen. according
10 veterans OF the late war. All the tents
are closely fioored, and they are separate.
At present only four men are in any
tent, and in addition to the tents there |
Are nine large board pavilions. Every |
.ent and pavilion has woven wire mat
tresses, iron bedsteads and hair mat |
resses. There are especial diets, Ave |
cold storage rooms for delicacies, sep |
lrate refrigerators for each row Of tents, |
Ind every proper measure of sanitation |
8 observed with respect to the sinks.
the report says: The whole
,lace is most carefully policed daily. and
he whole establishment. within and |
its permanent buildings and itA
ents, is in the most perfect order.
Since the establishment of this hos
,ital. everything asked for IN the way
# supplies OF every kind has been
furnished. Sixteen to "a bar
laily, and patients get nothing but dis
- 1.rls |
I've tons of ice are used daily. Three
hundred gallons OF milk are purchased
ally and $50 gallons fugnished by the
red Cross society. All morey necessary
or the purchase OF delicacies' of every
lind suitable to the sick has been fur
ished by order qf General Sternberg.
soon after the hospital was established
e telegraphed as follows to the surgeon
n charge: do not fail to procure every
ecessary for the comfort OF the sick.
.pply to me for additional female nurses
nd for money to buy delicacies when re-
uired. .st
A careful inquiry developed the fact
hat all varieties OF medical supplies re-
uifed or asked for were furnished, both
rom. Washington and from medical
at the camp with the
reatest promptness. II Is stated In ad-
ition that all the hospital refuse is
urned In a crematory, and. according
0 Major Diffen, all but 1000 patients now
lex In the entire cshnp could be safely
moved. The diseases are more of
Uphold -malaria character than the
Uphold fever strictly. the death rate be-
~ very low.
THE FIRST division field hospital. In
barge Of Major Drake. Is fioered with
Ianed lumber, and IT, In as clean as DOS
bile. being scrubbed with carboiic acid
nd treated with bichIorIde Of mercury
very other day. All the patients are on