The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-02
In Weman's Realm,
NOT SATISFACTORY.
q. c. Smith Writes That the Sanitary
Provisions at Ckickanauga Are
Ep1SFpGprnta.

In connection with the message sent by
DR.. Bisse,l from Chickamauga that supplies
were needed. the following letter from E. G.
Smith, the Red Cross field agent at the camp,
is of interest. Stephen Barton, to whom the
letter is addressed. takes occasion to say
that the Cuban relief committee do not con-
slider themselves responsible fer the criti-
cisms contained in the letter, though the
members have much confidence in their agent.
The message bears date CT July %, and reals:
THE sanitary conditions CT this camp have
not been improved to any extent since my
last letter to you. There are now more than
LOCO soldiers sick in the five division hospl-
tails and in Letter hospital. and fully as
sick in quarters Typhoid fever is on the
increase. ard 1 do not see any prospect CT
its abatement unless radical and energetic
measures promptly taken to give the
whole camp a general overhaulinS and clean
ing up cs-
After criticlsing severely the inadequate
sanitary provisions that permit foul odors
to assal the nostrils of men while eating
and sleeping" MIR. Smith says:
TOO much drilling and hard marching III
the hot sun enervate and often pTos5r rate
the men, and leaves them without sufficient
stamina to resist the attacks Of malarial and
typhoid fevers have seen and heard CT
out from sheer exhaustion while drilling,
and yet their officers, with mistaken zeal
and a notion that they are putting the men
through a 'toughening process, keep them
here, did not drill half as much as the
volunteers do now; perhaps because they did
not need so much; but more likely, l think
because their officers knew better how much
they could stand.
"Gen Brooke has left us; Gen. Wade has
taken command, and ! near :. rum mo that
tions governing the health OF the commands.
Brig Gen. Henry v. Boynton would be an
to put in fhaega Of abs
park ever since it was acquired by the gov
eminent for national purposes, he knows
every foot of the ground and is intensely in
the reforms he would inaugurate would make
Chickamauga park an ideal camping ground
for large bodies of men,
The recent report OF growing friction be-
tween the army and Red Cross hospital corps
gives the following extract from the letter
peculiar interest The h aigent says y
be allowed to furnish trained nurses for the
five division hospitals here. They are badly
needed the are dvsnn h and
corps hospital two of the surgeons are prac-
tically played out and Of very little service.
Maj. 3: F.. Bradbury surgeon in charge
ments whose members we're sick in his hos
pital for details q men to help care for
them as he had et sufficient emf, NUM- number Cd
however willing and earnest they may be-,
are not trained nurses; EsAt the Third division
First corps hospital the same situation OBJ
tainS: here is a crylnS ueeu IOT immaculate
help in the way Of trained nurses. l hope
we will be permitted to- supply this need"
Gen. sternberg' siganswer to the offer Of
the Red Cross to establish a hospital at
Miami, Fla, made yesterday through Mrs.
Whiteiaw Reid, is anxiousy awaited and ex-
pected some time SOON, says the Evening
Post 1t is not believed that the offer viii
be refused. The surgeons at Miami to whom
| Gen. Sternberg is to submit the question Of
| need, have already expressed themselves.
| William T. Wardwell said that he had no
a fovo vo111d ha
ceived and Mr.. Barton said the same in eff
| feet
At the Red Gross headquarters Gen. Stern
bergs reported opposition to the work Of the
thought that whatever his opinion of the
utility Of Red Cross nurse at the front may
| be, he will not oppose the plans for the es-
adjustment OF hospitals at the army camps
when need of them can be shown. His de-
cision on the Miami hospital offer. however, fs
awaited with some misEivinG. perhaps; for