The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-19

that he had to run out into the air The
poor devil had lain in that condition for two
days"
This is what the Rev. Marion F. Ham, pas
tor of the Unitarian church, of Chattanooga,
said: "Disinfsctants were not used in any
Of the camps until the stencil actually forced
the officers to seek relief in lime. But these
conditions, bad as they were, would not have
produced the infection Of typhoid fever in
themselves. 1t was necessary that the germs
be introduced from some outside source and
this probably happened by the admittance Of
an infected person Any well qualified sur
geon knows that the typhoid fever germ Is
the most dreaded of all military pests and yet
these cases as they developed were not iso-
lated. Indeed, today, typhoid fever patients
can be found in the division hospital side by
side with patients of non-infectious maladies.
While there are typhoid fever wards, sepa-
rated from the other wards, 1t does not fol-
low that all typhoid patients are removed to
these wards.
This whole hospital then, by this unsani-
tary arrangement, becomes disease breed
ing camp, instead Of a hospital. l saw typhoid
patients literally covered with fies and this
is civilized country, where MOSQUITO nets
sell at nominal price, Men are detailed
to attend these patients, who are wholly in
The Rev. ]. W. Trimble pastor of the Sec
ond Presbyterian church OF Chattanooga who
visited Camp Thomas daily for ninety days.
said: Il think it is just and right to saw
that the responsibility did and does rest upon
the commander of the sanitary inspector of
the camp. These conditions exist only under
the carelessness or incapacity of those who
had the power to remove them, but having
said this, / am sure that failure here was
no excuse for such gross neglect on the part
OF a large majority of the regimental Of
hcers in caring for the health Of the men.
The colonel or surgeon who left the sinks of
his regiment uncovered from day to day dur
ing the heated term of July and August, 10
poison air for rods about them, and to sick
en- and disgust the passerby, certainly showed
thereby his unfitness for his position. and
yet these conditions were the rule, while a
thoroughly clean and we'll kept regimental
camp an exception )"
DR.. TPimble is inquest tionably correct in
his conclusions. Most of the regimetal Off
Gers were apparently too much interested
in their own comfort or lacking in back
bone necessary to enforce proper sanitary
regulations.
AT every meal have taken in my hotel.
enough omcers to command an army corps
were present dining the best that the hotel
furnished.
Gov. Black, of New York, went down to the
camp to see things, and as soon as it was
learned that he was coming, a hurried at
tempt was made to improve Appearances The
result was that he fooled into the belief
that the horrible stories of camp life were
newspaper fctions.
A private of Company E, Fourteenth New
York, had this to say: When the word came
here that Gov. Black was coming, the Off
GERS in charge began to fix things in better
shape. New tents were put up, for one thing,
and wooden closets were built in place of the
pits we had been using Quite number of the
sick men in the regimental hospital were car
ried to the division hospital so that the
| governor would not that the regimental
hospital was crowded. Our men began to
shout when they saw this going on: That's
right. Don't give the governor chance to
see how bad the regiment hospital is
He did not see the worst of the streets
| We had roast beef and steak the day the gov