The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-22

yielded to pressure and permitted pa
TENTS TO leave before they were well.
criticise the system that permitted
such a condition OF affairs"
DR. Stimson said he supposed that
the pressure brought TO bear by gov
ernors, senators wives, mothers and
sWeethearts was largely responsible for
the great number Of men who were
discharged on Through before they
were fit TO be at liberty. What [ can
not understand. he said. is why the
United States government. with the
large investment represented by those
men, should have suffered them to
leave the hospital before they We're
cured. Seventy typhoid cases
picked up in the streets of this city
were treated in the Hudson Street Hos
DitaL They should not have been al
lowed to leave Montauk until they
were well. I don't mean to say that
many deaths resulted because. as d mat
ter Of fact most Of the men whose rec
ords ! know recovered.
What do you think could have been
done at Camp Wikof that waa not
done asked ex-COV. WOODBURY..
I think the whole inception Of the
camp was wrong It should have been
called a hospital camp and conducted
as q hospital camp entirely The bur
den Of proof rests on the authority to
show why the proper things were not
done
Miss julie Hastead Chadwick, one Of
the women vino worked for the sick
at Camp WikoH. submitted written
statement Of the conditions she found
there in the latter part of August. She
told at length OF the work done and
attempted 81 Camp Wikof by the vol
unteer visiting women.
Gould the United States have done
what you women did so willingly and
brayely2"
why certainly the government
could have done all we did"
Is il not true that if there was any
lack Of medical supplies it was due To
the congestion Of the one railroad that
could be used for transporting sup
plies2"
Il don't know the cause. All know
is that there was a lack Of supplies
and consequently great suffering"
Dr. William Thompson. another wit
ness, visited Camp WikOff on Septem-
Der 2 and on September 8, but was
not there long enough TO make proper
criticism"
But You have been quoted in TIE
newspapers all over the country as
having said that you found filthy con-
ditions prevailing. Have you been mis-
quoted ?"
No, sir. I came to tell you about the
30 cases Of typhoid fever. which came
under my observation II the Presby-
teri8n hospital in a condition in which
they should not have been moved, and
10 say that these patients in some cases
died. In my opinion, they should not
have been allowed to travel on a rail-
road 100 miles. scattering infection at
every step. can give You the names
Of those go
Do you know in these cases why
the men were allowed to go away from
camp before they should have gone ?''
No but l know that they should
not have been allowed to leave"
He said that some Of the men picked
up in the streets of this city and taken
to the Presbyterian hospital. were in
the third week of typhoid fever. One
was covered with bed sores, another
| died within two hours Of his admis-
sion to the hospital, and another with
| In p hours
Were these men from the hospitals
at Camp WikoG?'
Il believe they were furloughed from
I the general quarters and not from the
/ hospitals. / cannot say if the author
ity issuing the Through was aware
that men We're suffering with typhoid
fever"
Dr. Thompson submitted a list Of sol
| diers sick with typhoid fever who were
treated at the Presbyterian Hospital
and promised to furnish comparative
table showing the mortality Of the
! cases treated at the Presbyterian and
| Bellevue HOSPITALS.