The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-09-02
.SENN'S PROPHECY.
The Assistant Surgeon General
Talks About Camp Wikof.
LIKELY TO BECOME A PESTROLE.
Representative GrOsVenOE Reports About
his Visit 20 Camp ThOmGs-zIsn IN Good
n-DIssatIsfsction at Not
Getting to the Front.

COndltfOn-DisGstiEfacts az Not
Getting to the Front
New York, Aug. s1.-Medical officers
at Camp WilzOff, MOntauk point, deny
that there have been deaths at the
camp hospital from yellow fever. The
two men whose death here Monday
was said to be attributable to the dis
ease named were, according to the
surgeons in charge, victims Of perni-
cious malarial fever, which those IN
familiar with malarial fever frequent
" diagnose as the latter. DIR. Nicho-
las Sem, assistant surgeon general,
United States army, is quoted as say
ing at Camp Wikoff:
In justice to the camp. want to say that
almost none OF the sickness among the sol
dsers up TO the present time, and none OF the
deaths, have been due to the conditions which
now prevail here or have in the past. Sick
ness has been almost entirely limited TO levers
contracted in the south and the death rate
would have been much more than now had the
men remained in the south instead Of being
brought here. The change Of climate lessened
the eHectS OF the levers and improved the con
ditiOn Of the men As a consequence. the only
sickness which can be attributed TO this camp
is dysentery, or lesser troubles, which may
have been caused by the change OF diet or wa
ter. So Tar none Of the fevers has been 1ndig-
enOus to the camp. but II he men remain they
viii certainly be attacked with typhoid fever
This viii be due to the germs which they VIII
get in the water. To make this place healthy
we should have q system Of draining which
would carry away all these germs, but 70 build
such would cost large SUN, owing 70 the eZ-
tent OF the camp.
Dr.. Sem was asked If he had brought
his views TO the attention Of the sur
geOn general at Washington. He said:
Ihave not done 50 In regard to Camp WikoG
Ny protests in regard to other camps have
passed unheeded. In regard to Camp Wfkoa, I
have written an article embodying ali my
views. which VIII be printed in a medical jour
nal over my signature and wiz be reported to
the authorities at Washington, ] am sure
Then I viii be asked about It and will empha-
size my opinions I want you to say that IN
less this camp is cleared out within six weeks
it viii be the worst infected place in the United
States The soil will be permeated With
typhoid fever and epidemics win follow. It wiz
be worse than II has been at any time at Chick
amauga- In regard TO that camp, want to say
that I warned the Washington authorities
before the soldiers we're sent there that
danger would result from maSSing . body.
Of men there I told them that the water sup
ply was insufficient, and that the use Of river
water would result in typhoid fever. Ny pro-
tests went UNDECIDED The result was shown
when I in Porto Rico with Gen Niles
Almost the first men sent him were from
ChiCkamauga- They were down ana half
sick when they arrived They we're in no con
ulElOu 10 STAND the southern climate Zen
Miles noted their weakness and / told him the
cause Of It 1 asked him TO notify the Wash
ingtOn authorities, and have the Chickamauga
camp broken up He cid 50 at once, and the
evacuation OF the place followed I want to
say that, as bad as ChiclSamauga was this
place wiz soon be far worse Unless this camp
is broken up within six weeks, I predict that e
viii be instead Of q 'recuPeratiOn camp"
horror camp worthy to rank with the Infamous
pestholes Of the civil war.
CAMP THOMAS VISITED.
Washington, Aug. SL-Representa-
tive GrOsvenor, Of Ohio, called at the
war department yesterday in company
with ex-Re preventative Thompson, to
report to Secretary Alger the results
Of their visit of inspection Of the camp
at Dunn Loring, and particularly the
state Of affairs in the Seventh Ohio
regiment. Gen. GrosvenOr was en-
phatic in his approval Of what he saw.
He said:
never saw a body OF soldiers better fed,
better clothed and better sheltered than In the
Seventh Ohio regiment at present So much
for the general condition Now as to the par
ticulars: There we're 1870 men in the regf-
ment Except from suicide there have been
two deaths among them since the Organization,
~ months ago. Including the men who were
furIoughed 70 90 home and reCuperste and
those in the hospitals there were only Il men
A finer, ADLER set OF men never saw in my lie
Continuing, Gen. GrOsvenOr said that
the dissatisfaction among the soldiers
was all traceable to the fact that they
had not been able to get to the front
On the whole he (GrOsvenOr) was sat
isfied the men were very much better
of than were the soldiers In the civil
war.
This last view was confirmed by Sen
atOr Allen, of Nebraska, who called at
the war department to get some news
of the whereabouts Of the Second Ne
braska regiment, which be was told
was en- route from Cbickamauga to
Omaha lie said the main complaint
among the men was their enforced de-
tentiOn at the camps instead of being
sent to the front. So far as their phys
zeal condition was concerned, while
the men had suffered a good deal at
Camp Thomas, so far as he could judge
from his own experience IN the civil
war, they were certainly no worse on
than the soldiers then engaged