The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-24
DOCTORS DOSE MEANT DEATH.
PROFESSIONAL NURSE TELLS HOW
SHE SAVED A PATIENT.

She Held Up Prescription of a Phy-
stefan Which would Have Killed
the Patient He Was Treating-Sur-
geOns Weres Friendly Toward the
Doctor, But the Dose Was Not Adj
MISUNDERSTANDING Give
Testimony Before the Commission
ers.
New York, Nov 23.-The war investiga-
ting commission decided to-day to adjourn
it's New York session Saturday night and
proceed to Boston. A number of witnesses
were examined to-day. James J. f. Arch
ibald, a San Francisco newspaper man,
who was with the First Regular Infantry
from California to Santiago, testified that
there was plenty of food.
THE inability of the volunteers to adapt
themselves to circumstances was due to
their own inexperience. If they had known
enough to hustle and cook the food that
was there, they would have had less cause
10 complain. There was a scarcity OF med-
ical supplies, of surgeons, and of nurses.
Ii appeared to me that DR.. Wood believe
his initials are NJ. M.-caused considerable
unnecessary suffering by his severe ad-
ministration of his hospital near Siboney.
He refused to allow any one to visit the
sick"
John Jay Robinson of New York, who
was at Camp Wikoff with the Young
Mems Christian Association tent, told of
the conditions there, as ne saw them dur
8 oY,Ac ta.ar
He did not know of any great lack of
food or supplies, and said that he thought,
as a whole, the camp was well conduct
ed.
Mrs Johanna Won Wagner of Yonkers,
a professional nurse, established a diet
kitchen at Camp Wikoff and served there
a month from Aug. 20. She corroborated
the statements made by other women on
the condition of the camp, and told of her
own experience in treating the sick of
the Seventh Infantry She complained OF
the lack of competent hospital help, the
scarcity of ambulances, and the inexpe-
rience of some of the contract doctors.
on more than one occasion she saw inn
proper prescriptions, and on one occasion
she complained to Maj. Forbes that a
dose prescribed for a man would Kill him.
The matter was referred 10 the surgeons
of the general hospital. They were friend
ly 20 the offending doctor, and nothing
was done, but the dose Of medicine was
not administered. Mrs. Won Wagner de-
clined to give the names Of the surgeons
she considered negligent, and told the
commissioners they could get the names.
If they wanted them, from the records of
the Seventh Regiment.
What struck me most painfully said
the witness, In conclusion, was the ut
ter Indifference Of the medical men in the
regimentaI hospital to the suffering of the
sick"
Cleveland Moffett newspaper man.
who was at Camp Wikoff writing maya
zine articles and taking photographs, tes-
tilted that while men were lying sick at
quarters, because there was no means of
taking them to hospitals, he Gaw twenty
ambulances in camp which wele never
used because they lacked t2neues.
Cen Dodge read a communication from
Lieut.. John M Thompson, Seventy-frst
Regiment, who Is sick In the hospital,
eontradicting the statements made by Pri-
waite David J. Goss of hts company that
the officers occupied hospital tents to the
exclusion of the sick.
DR.. Elmer Low said the women visit
ors were responsible for a great many men
being discharged before they were fit 40
leave the hospitals az Camp Wikof.
Dr. j. Morris Brown, deputy surgeon
general of the United States Army at the
New York depot, said there was no lack
of medical supplies.