The times., 1898-08-30

this site sufficiency of water is even
harder to obtain. and the boys only have
an opportunity to battle when 1t rains,
by stripping themselves and standing out
in the shower. And, by the way, we
have not had a good shower for some
time
II consider the regiment the most pa
tient and one of the best disciplined in
the service, and there has been no COM
plants from US except when We thought
it imperative that the camp should be
moved to prevent a further spread of
disease.
Medicine to Dead Men.
at appears to me that we have been
the victims of a faculty to do the proper
Thing after it is not needed; to give the
right medicine to a dead man, as 1T were,
or lock the stable door after the horse
is gone
1--WE were prevented from coming to
this present camp on account OF the well
net being finished, and a day after we
reached here the tools were lost in the
we'll and Doring ceased. Now that we are
been exhausted as suitable location for
camp, machinery and everything Is in
order ITO bore another WELL when for days
no such attempt was made"
About the same condition of affairs ex-
lists at the division hospital as before, and
despite the fact that hundreds of pa
tients have been removed there are still
more than three hundred in the hospitals,
and with a very few exceptions all are
suffering from typhoid fever.
A great many Sisters of Charity have
come out to nurse the sick, but there are
still the most fragrant abuses of sanitary
regulations. An assistant surgeon on the
| division staff, who comes from Brooklyn,
! said yesterday that he thought the pol
icy of moving the typhoid patients very
dangerous, in fact, almost fatal.
Il would as soon stand at the foot OF
his bed and shoot him as to move pa
tient of mine suffering from typhoid, he
said. His explanation of the great
amount of sickness was that a bad loea-
ton had been selected, that there was an
impure and inadequate water supply, and
1t being necessary for man to bathe
often TO preserve his health, this alone
would cause great deal of sickness.
Some Fatal Mistakes.
'It is well nigh impossible to give {
typhoid patient proper treatment undel
canvas" he said land 1t is highly prob
able that the death rate would have beer
smaller if we had had a house to us'
/ for a typhoid hospital. Every time i
rains it sets our patients back and sew
| eral deaths almost invariably result.
| was another mistake not to provide :
| suitable building for a hospital and :
| practically permanent camp. But keel
! the regiments moving often, give them {
good Wholesome water supply SO tha
! they may bathe often. and proper nour
| ishment. and these same men that have
sickened and died here would be stront
/ and active"
The news of their prospective departure
was received with great JOY by the Penn
| sylvania troops and the Twelfth Regt
ment. after a spell of cheering, went L
work with a will and were ready to mov'
early In the afternoon. The Eighth Penn
! sylvania will leave for Camp Meade to
day, and then the Sixty-tirst New Yorl
is next on the schedule TO leave camp
The order of the movement of the othel
troops has not been made public, and tn:
plans are liable to a change
! An explanation given for the delay II
the movement of the Sixty-ffth New
York is that the train that bore tbs
| Twelfth Pennsylvania to Camp Meade
was ordered for the former regiment. bu
upon it being decided not to send the New
York boys to another camp, the trair
was utilized for the Pennsylvania troops