New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-18
ARMY 81 RGEONS IN THE SOID1N.
THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE TREATMENT
OF THE WOUNDED BRITISH SOLDIERS

OF THE WOUNDED BRITISH SOLDIERS.
From The London News.
The arrangements made by the Army Medical
Department for the final advance On khartoum
are most elaborate and complete. They have
been made by Surgeon Colonel Mcnamara. who
has been ard remains i. NJ. -. OF the Brltlsn
force while surgeon General Taylor-a man OK
great and varied cxperence-has come specially
out Ia exercise supreme control IN Doth BrltlSh
and Egyptian divisions. The arrangements
made for the treatment IF the wounded are as
follows \ medical officer Is attached 10 each
battalion. and one also to the cavalry ana 10
each battery Of artillery. then from each bat
TALON ETC. are drawn thirty-twO trained men.
who retain their arms and can be otherwise
used in emergency. whose business is 70 pick UP
and give first aid TO the wounded and convey
them 70 the field hospitals. which will be It
convenient distance behind the brigldes In some
sheltered position Behind each brigade are 10
be five field hospitals each with one inedl'h
officer and accomm, dalton fer twenty-five men.
These i've field hospitals act as one. but are
made sectional in order that Ia" sections may
be detached TO follow any battalion that may %
acting Independently II the brigade. In ALI these
there ~ accommodation for 10 wounded IN tho
field hospitals II each brigade There ~ also
senior medical officer with each brigade Leu
tenant Colonel Slogget with Henria "dn-
chopn's and Lieutenant Colonel Hughes with
General I.yttirton'S command.
From tn, field hospitals IN" wounded are To 70
conveyed ~ soon AZ possible. after treatment.
| 20 bargcs moored of the river bank: where
there viii be- accommodation for t"o hundred
men These bargcs are at present engaged III
conveying troops 10 Wad Habashy"h, our place
~ r.nd.zvo,s but 50 soon As this work IL CONF
plctcd they will De ceanscd and disinfccted. and
fitted as hospitals other barges VIII De use'
for operating purposes.
Two R,ntgrn ray apparaiuses (Which arc now
herel will D.. On these bargcs. Of course. apart
from the harges. there will be- other hospital hc-
conlmodatiOns On the river bank. and the barGes
will Il necessary. ply 10 and from the Athara
camp. Between khartoum and this place th're
will b" eight lines Of communication hospIlais
- "a
Ger attached 20 each Surgeon NJ tjOr Hunter,
who until last year was attached to the Egyp-
tan Army. has charge Of these eight hospitals.
Here at The Atbari. ample ana Sp"cIal ACCOM-
rnodttion has been provided y hospital mas
been built " mud bricks. with walls some three
| feet thick and lofty roof. the wards being
| cccd with mating and thickly matched win
Dhurra straw. It Is probably ~ cool a place -
| there Is IN the Soudan Here Is accommodation
FOR ,,yo hundred men but IN 50 generous scild
| that II necessary another nfty or more could Ia
| added without any cramping To the inmates:
| Men reaching this hospital get proper Hospital
| clothing and bedding. and have sheets To their
beds. Six medical officers are IN charse. lh'rs
| il another base hospital lower down the river AT
| Abadrah. Fifteen miles north of Bcrhcr Is an
! other big mud brick hospital with accominoda.
| ton for three hundred men, VINO VIII he io'kci
| after by eight medical officers Both hence ana
| from the Atbara camp sick conveys VIII 10
| made up for the desert railway journey to Haiir
| and the trains will be- specially htttd TOT coh-
| yeying sick and wounded. At liafa ana AZ as.
suan where there are breaks between rail ana
| river there will be- Seycrally fifty and
| twcnty-fve- bed hospital for the accommodation
Of men who need rest after the journey AZ
! Abadcah hospital. by the way IL another isont-
| rrn ray apparatus ON each gunboat IL A medic
| cal officer. thc L. VI. o. of the Sunp"ats pe'"s
! Surgeon Major Smythc.
! Every sort ~ drug. appliance" ana Instrument
/ that NAV be required has been plentifully sup
nliad and the organization generally ~ 80 thor-
/ ough thai there Is every reason 10 nope tnit
| the complaints often made tand mace ~
much by the surgeons themselves as by any OF"
I else, II the inadcIuacy Of the arranSrrnents TOT
! the medical treatment Of our troops on actlEe
! service viii not find any voice a. regards the
) expedition to khartoum.
/ have omitted to mention that tn" stretchers
Cor carving the wounded and sick from place
. IN mace have been lifted with hoods ana
Tommy who generally cOntrives 10 get run Oh
I his nNu peculiar faECy Out N most events. hiS
, succeeded in evolving mild but popular Jokeet
ant Of th. Labor the alteration has cost MN For
nm. rrasou or other II has been the taShion At
p,rm,l To- east sort If comic Scorn on the
1 Guards there being a sort ~ prevalent theory
in ramD that these gallant soldiers were 10 nc
sent 10 Khartoum wrapped tSp To Speak) III
cntton wool \ hit At the Guards therefore was
not 10 ~ missed when occasion oUcr'h ana
/ th,. soldier at work on the Strrtchrr hoouS
| promptly answered the question as u what they
: ,vern for with What for Why for you ana
I mo to carry the blooming Guards To khartouH'
/ IF course.