The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-01
LIKE GARDENS OF EDEN
GEN. BOYNTON REPORTS ON
CONDITIONS AT HOSPITALS

According to His Statement, Made to
Secretary of War AIger, Sick Sol
dicrs RecIIue on Modern Mattress
seS. in Roomy Houses and Drink
Distilled lee Water and Feed
Upon the DeIicacies of the Market.
WASHINGTON, Aug. S1.-Secretary
Alger today received the report Of
Gen. H. V. Boynton upon the state Of
affairs in the hospitals at Camp Thom-
as The report is dated Aug. 29. The
general says that his instructions were
to report the number OF sick, charac-
ter Of Illness, number of tents, floor
space per patient. the adequacy and
suitability of attendants and whether
the medical officers have discharged
their duties faithfully and intelligently,
and to make any recommendation in
the interest of all concerned. He says
that he visited all the hospitals in the
camp without giving notice of his pur-
pose. Says Gen. BOyntOn:
believing the death list Of this camp
to afford an excellent standard of c9n-
ditions as to health and hospital serV-
ice, q full report was obtained as TO
an deaths IN the camp, and in the
hospitals, since its establishment, the
middle of April last. The result shows
q total death list of 1873 up TO the 22d
of this month, when the breaking up
&c this camp began. Between these
dates, including regulars and volun-
teers fully $4,000 troops have been in
camp i'm the Chickamauga park. The
record If burials in the national ceme-
terry at Chattanooga shows a total of
. 100 volunteers and two regular soldiers.
o. the latter. one was killed by falling
from "a railway train
The report takes UP in detail. first
the two permanent hospitals, Letter
and Steruberg. and states with the
greatest minuteness the exact accom-
mediation afforded by each. The first
Is at Crawfsh Springs, under charge
OF Mai Carter, and was converted
from a large summer resort hotel into
a hospital. receiving the worst typhoid
cases from the camp. Each patient
has abundant room, woven wire and
hair mattresses and abundant bed
clothing. The ventilation Is perfect
plumbing entirely new and bathing
facilities ample. The number of at
tendants when all are well is entire
iy satisfactory, and attendants are on
the way to take the places Of those
who are broken down.
SUPPLIES FOR SICK.
Maj Carter has secured a herd Of
COWS and has arrangements for pas
turing them. without expense to the
government. He has sufficient money
from the hospital fund to buy what
ever is wanted in the way Of milk. ice
and other delicacies. There has been
at this hospital q full supply of ice,
milk, commissary stores and delicacies
such as the sick ought to have, and
the funds have enabled him to buy all
that was needed in the way of canned
and pOtted goods, soups and clam
Juice, matted milk, eggs, jellies. pre-
serves, reliShes, ginger, oil, appOlli-
naris, champagne and claret. The en-
tire hospital is furnished with distilled
water. and the ice used is made from
distilled water.
Taking UP the Sternberg hospital, in
charge of Maj. Giffen, Gen. Boynton
says that 1t is one OF the most com
plete field hospitals ever seen since the
last war. Every tent is roomy, and
they are separate. At present there
are only four men in a tent. In addi-
tion to the tents at present there are
nine large pavilions. Every tent and
pavilion has woven wire mattresses,
iron bedsteads and hair mattresses.
There are special diet cooks, five cold
storage rooms for delicacies, separate
refrigeratOrs for each row of tents,
and every proper measure of sanitation
is recognized.
Further the report says: 1.-THE en-
tire place IS properly policed, and the
whole establishment within and with
cut it's permanent buildings and It's
tents is Of the most perfect order.
Since the establishment of this hospital
. everything asked for in the way of
supplies of every kind has been fur
nished. Sixteen to twenty-four barrels
Of distilled waters are purchased daily,
and patients get nothing but distilled
water to drink. From three to five tons
of ice are used daily. Five hundred
gallons Of milk are purchased daily,
and $50 gallons furnished daily by the
Red Cross society All money needed
for the purchase Of delicacies of every
kind, suitable for the sick, has been
furnished by order Of Gen. Sternberg.
Soon after the hospital was established
he telegraphed as follows to the sur
geon in charge:
do not fail to procure everything
necessary for the comfort Of the sick.
Apply to me for additional female
!
when required"
A careful inquiry developed the fact
that all varieties of medical supplies
required or asked for were furnished
both from Washington and from med
ical headquarters at the camp with
the greatest promptness
CARE OF MINNESOTA MEN.
The next hospital inspected was the