The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-16
MISSOURI sAILs SUNDAY.
Male and Female Hospital Nurses
Leave Aboard the Vessel.

The hospital ship Missouri will leave
port Sunday This is the expectation OF
Maj. Arthur, the surgeon in charge. IL
may be later, but he believes the loading
of medical and hospital supplies will have
progressed far enough by that time TO
allow the vessel to put to sea.
Aboard the Missouri there will be large
number Of men of the hospital corps and
female nurses. To do the work that may
be required aboard the ship, Maj Arthur
has sixty men. These are detailed for the
special work of attending to patients re-
ceived on board. In addition 10 these,
there will be thirty hospital men to join
various commands in Cuba. number OF
these will go to Pinar del Rio to join the
forces under Gen. Davis. Then there will
be the portion of the hospital corps of
the Second Division that has not already
gone. amounting to about 200 men. Fifty
female nurses from the Second Division
hospital will also be aboard as passen-
gers.
The work of loading'the vessel has been
hampered by her construction. The
matches are narrow, and viii not admit OF
rapid loading Supplies are going aboard
from the medical depot. They will be used
on the vessel, and will also be distributed
among the various regimental and divis-
ion hospitals to he established In Cuba.
An order was received yesterday by the
surgeon in command from the surgeon
general directing him to return imme-
diately to Savannah upon the discharge OF
the passengers and supplies at Havana.
This Is to take the hospital corps of the
First Division to Cuba. The order indi-
Gated that the hospital force is to go, and
il Is inferred from this that Il will not be
long until the First Division begins TO
move.
Maj. Arthur does not think It improba-
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vana to bring back with him. This is the
purpose for which the vessel is intended
II lie true the troops have been in Cuba
but few days, but the surgeon sees no
reason in that to Indicate that there are
not already sick among them He recalls
an experience he had in the early summer.
His vessel sailed from the
same pier from whsch regi-
ment had sailed for Cuba only
three days after it's departure On arriv
ing at the destination, which was the same
for both vessels, Mai. Arthur discovered
that there were some twenty sick wait
ing for the Missouri to bring them back
to the United states.
The surgeon was asked about yellow
fever cases. He said he has no doubt there
win be such cases, but he does not think
they win find their way into Savannah.
Nothing IN the way of a detention hos
pital has been provided, but It Is not inn
probable that some means will be devised
by which all likelihood of fever patients
being brought into the city will be re-
moved Arrangements are made with the
| health officers of the ports to which the
hospital ship has been running by which
lists of all the cases are furnished by the
surgeons to the officials. These FISTS
show exactly how the patients are affect
ed The fact that competent surgeons
were known to be aboard the vessef has
been taken by health officers as warrant
! that no contagious cases would be
brought IN