The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-22
THE UNHEARD OF DELAY
IN FILLING REQUISITIONS MADE
BY SURGEON TAYLOR.
PATIENTS KILLED BY BEING MOVED
Reverend OrviIIe Nave on Conduct Of Hospitals
Too Little Care Of Patients Clothes.
Thievery one Of Wars Sad
dest Features.

Atlanta, Ca, October 21.-The war in
vestigating commission arrived here to
day, and after calling upon General Pen
nington, in command of the Department
proceeded to Fort Mcpherson. They
found the barracks at the post hail been
transformed into hospital wards, and not
withstanding the day was wet, the wards
were all comfortable, made so In each
case by large stove in the centre CT
the room.
There are now 800 patients in the insti
tuition and many of them are GONZALES
cent. The commissioners talked with
surgeons, nurses and patients. They
encountered no complaint from the sick
work was constantly growing less and
less irksome, owing to the decrease II,
the number of patients.
They also visited the mess hall OF tho
convalescents while they were at dinner
and the diet kitchen, while dinner was
being prepared. They found the men in
the mess room abundantly supplied with
food and all partaking of it with a relish
known only to men who have just re-
covered from typhoid fever.
MAJOR TAYLOR EXAMINED.
The commissioners examined only two
witnesses here. They were Major Blair
B. Taylor, surgeon in charge of the gen.
eral military hospital here and Rev. Or
vile J. Nave, Chaplain of that institu-
ton.
To-, Il &fo& fyx-1 HI hal
had no difficulty in securing supplies, as
he had been given carte blanche to pur-l
chase them. This authority had not,
however, been given until the first of
August, whereas it had been asked as
early as the 25th of June. He had in
the beginning of the camps history had
considerable difficulty in getting requisi-
tions filled, although he has had no diff
Guilty in getting them approved by the
authorities at Washington. One requisi-
ton made on the 10th of May and an
other on the Oath of June had not been
entirely filled until very recently. These
requisitions had been made upon the New
York supply depot, while all that were
made on the st. Louis depot had been
promptly filed. One hundred and six
teen cots ordered in the beginning of the
season had only arrived a day or two
since, and they were not now needed. DIR.
Taylor had, on account of delay in fill
ing these acquisitions been compelled to
call upon the Surgeon General for n
portion of his special fund and had
thus prevented any suffering among pa
TENTS Among the articles in which
there was delay was bed linen.
MOVING TYPHOID PATIENTS.
DIR. Taylor said he had found the sixty
cents day communication fund more than
sufficient to furnish food for the sick
men, and he expressed the opinion that
forty cents per day would be sufficient
for the purpose of supplying food. DIR.
Taylor stated in reply to a question that
he considered Atlanta an excellent place
for winter hospital because of the
convenience in reaching the place from
the ports of the Southwest; because the
climate was mild and yet cold enough to
prevent infection and also because of the
excellent water supply. lie said that a
large proportion of his patients had been