The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-30
Wi OPEN IN THREE WEEKS.
WIS 70 BE IN THE ARMY HOS
PAii n,r,t WITHIN THIS TINE.

s..pitnl viii BE Used as raining
So'r, for Nurses During the sum-
,,,tb~-HospitaI Men Were
me- fl, such schools Before the
mis- viii BE the Only One in
". country-Patients VIII Come
The West Indies-PIhns for
connections Have Been
sew" and Iron Pipe and a
"""7 p,mp VIII BE Used.
,..,,,,. hospital viii be open within
Tine ''7 ~ for patients. This is what
tni'' NJ Appel. surgeon in charge, said
MAJ i .,,,,- to a representative of the Morn
ng News 30 to-morrow night
+t.,a Rock. Ark. where he was sta
io' .f,-.. the outbreak of the war. All
.'o''' S,,,.4bo,5 goods are there, and he
Us '.e - ,et them 10 Savannah. He will
49,, his residence in the quarters that
,ars b,sn prepared for him at the nos
'..I INST as soon as he returns.
r5a occupancy of the hospital by pa
has heen de.ayed by sewer work.
NsU
-. ID, make terra Gotta connections with
tra .I,y,s system, from the most available
Vim, of which the hospital site is more
han 100 feet distant, were tried, but it
49,. c,rnd that the work, in addition to the
.'..-ress being very slow, was not salts
,,.forv The auiCksands are so treacher-
...- urder the surface where the ditch was
T., IL. due for the pipe that an examination
d.so,osed the fact that the joints that had
,,.sn laid were broken and that the plan
,,.,r,1 rs a failure. In view of these diff
..,l+.ss j. has been decided to use iron pipe,
which will not have to be sunk far beneath
the surface with an automatic electro
force pump. This pump win be on the
.ss, side of the hospital tract, and will
force The sewage to the city main. Those
in charge believe all the sewer connections
can be completed now within three weeks.
This trouble about the sewers is all that
has stood in the way of patients being ad-
mjtted for some time now, and they will
at once be received when it is removed.
Mai. Appel, who has been in the service
for tventy-three years and who holds his
rank in the regular army, will be COM
1nanding officer at the hospital The Off
GERS quarters and the administration
building has been completed and are ready
for occupancy The major has three of
The stewards here who are 10 be his chief
of assistants. These are Steward HarVers,
who will be chief clerk and who has been
in the service for Is years; Steward Young,
who will be in charge of the general sup
ervsion of the kitchens and messes; and
Steward Hunt, who will have charge of
hospital property
Mai. Appel says the hospital will be used
for patients from Nov. / 10 May /, approx
imaely. During the summer months 1t
is not to be used. Patients will then be
sent north The major does not anticipate
having more than several hundred pa
tients here before the weather becomes too
warm to make it the best policy to keep
them at the south.
During the months when there are TO
be no patients the hospital buildings will
not remain unused. 1t is the purpose
of the government to stablish a training
school for hospital men. There is now
10 such school in the country, and it is
desired that there be one established. MAJ.
Appel says there were three such schools
before the outbreak of the war, and in
them the hospital men received their train
sary to establish another such school now,
as 50 many new men have been taken
INTO the hospital service since the war be-
gan. They are in need of careful train
ing, and this it is proposed to give them
mere The men will be detailed from the
various posts and hospitals where they
row are and those who may lie enlisted
VIII also be sent here to get instruction.
IL Is probable this will be the only school
OF this kind maintained.
FemaIe nurses win be employed to nurse
'he patients in the hospital. It is ex-
Pected there will be something like $50
vi lhem mere. II is expected that 1870
men Will be at work. These will not have
lle nursing of the soldiers, but will look
"trer matters generally.
Inc hospital was established here. Mai.
appel says, for the soldiers that may be
Iousnl from the West Indies 1t was
uesue" TO nave the buildings at some
p IN Wnere railroad transportation after
Wy soldlefs are taken off the vessels will
,.-'. w necessary. 1t is principally for
49, 5I'St soldiers from the Indies that the
c09pNdI Is being built. 1t is possible that
s1 l'1's VIII be sent from camps in this
no ,,on' put most of these camps are
,nor -, 4l'nta, and il is likely that the
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