The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-10
WILL BE OPEN ALL SUMMER.
ARMY HOSPITAL EXPECTS MANY
PATIENTS NEXT WINTER.

cent-They Arc sent Away as They
Grow Well EnouGh-TSphOid Has
Been the Most Common of the Sc
Nurses and Attendants Being Re-
duced-HaIf the Ward Buildings
Set Aside for the Medical Depot.
No orders for closing have been received
by Maj. D. NJ. Appel, surgeon in charge
of the army hospital. He believes it will
remain open throughout the summer. and
that next winter it will again have many
patients sent from Cuba and Porto Rico
for treatment.
While the hospital is open In the sum
mer it will be used principally for the
treatment of the sick among the en-
ployes of the depot quartermaster in Sa-
vannah. There are some 500 men en-
ployed here. and from among that num-
Der there win be enough patients to keep
small force of surgeons and hospital
attendants busy.
The force of ten or twelve surgeons
and assistant surgeons connected with the
hospital has dwindled, and now there are
only the surgeon In charge and Drs. Brad
ley and Anderson DIR. Fauntleroy and
DR.. Ford are on their way to Manila,
having left Savannah for San Francisco,
whence they sailed day before yesterday
on the transport Sheridan. DR.. Millhon
has gone to Camp Meade, where his SER
vices are necessary in mastering out the
regiments that were taken there from
Cuba. Or. Curry is on his way to New
York, where he is ordered to join the
hospital ship Missouri Three more sur
geons are at the hospital besides those
named, but their duties have ceased, as
they are under orders for other places.
DIR. Waterhouse is ordered to report at
Fort Wood, on Bedloe's Island, New
York harbor, and DR.. MacLean and DR..
Anes are to go to San Francisco for
duty
AT one time there were about forty fe-
male nurses a the hospital, but the num-
Der has decreased through many being or
dered elsewhere for duty. Only nine are
ministering to the needs of the patients at
present, but that number is ample. as
there are but about twenty-five patients,
the majority of whom are convalescent.
The patients were received at the hospI-
tai from various commands, and among
them are several employees OF the quarter
master department 1t Savannah. Some
of The patients were sent from Cuba and
others were members of the volunteer
commands that were mustered out hero.
Among them is one poor fellow who was
employed as a hospital steward on the
supply ship Comal. In some way he had
O leg SO badly crushed as TO necessitate
its amputation On being brought to the
hospital here on one of the vessels he
was given the best treatment, and II was
only by the most careful nursing and care
that he pulled through IA severe case of
typhoid fever.
That is disease that has affected many
of the patients who have been at the hos
pital. One or two cases exist at present,
but the crises have passed. and il is not
apprehended that a single one will prove
fatal Daily there are several of the con-
valescents discharged, and the men glad
ly get off for their homes on leave or dis
missed altogether from the service
Besides the surgeons and nurses there
are seventy-two hospital attendants and
four stewards connected with the hospi-
tel. For a long time there were many
more but as the need for them grew less
some were sent away and others were
discharged from the service. A day or two
ago a party of eight privates and two act
ing stewards were sent to San Francisco
But two of the wards are necessary for
the treatment of the remaining patients
and the attendants do not have a great
deal to do in caring for them.
Many of the wards have been turned
over TO DR.. Snyder surgeon in charge of
the depot of medical supplies They are
the wards east of the mess halls of the
officers convalescents and attendants, ali
the others to the west being reserved Cor
any need that may arise for them for hos
pital purposes. 1t will NOT be found nee
essary 10 use all the wards that have been
assigned to the depot of medical supplies
for storage purposes. as the space is more
than adequate. Therefore every other
ward will be stored with the supplies. that
arrangement being hit upon as a precau-
ton in case of fire. 1t would then be an
easy matter to tear down the buildings
not used for storage purposes to prevent
the communication of flames to the next
beyond.
Thirty cars Of medical supplies are com
ing TO Savannah from Atlanta. The de-
pot at that place has been abandoned, and
the movement OF the supplies to this city
ordered. The Waldburg building on Bay
street Fa5 been given up, and the combin-
ed supplies of both the Savannah and At
lanta depots VIII be stored at the hospital.
The work of transferring the great guam
tity from the Waldburg building and ada
cent store houses Dr. Pitcher
had in use has been going on for a week,
but there Is yet much to be done.
The government will be saved $4,000 a
year in rentals by the use of the vacant
ward buildings at the hospital in place of
the storehouses at Atlanta and here AT
each place the cost to the~government for
their rent was $1,000. The cots mattresses.
chairs, tables and other furniture that
were in the wards to be used as store
rooms have all been transferred to others
on the west side of the line of mess halls.
They have been neatly arranged and await
the need that is expected to arise next
winter.
The surgeons are engaged daily in the
delivery of lectures to many of the at
tendants. They are also being drilled in
various exercises that tend to perfect them
in the service. Il was the intention from
the first TO put the hospital attendants
through such a course of training during
the summer, but IT was thought at one
time that there would be many more sent
to Savannah for instruction.