Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-14
OUR BOIs ~ CuBA.
rrevariug camp for Rainy season
Health Report.


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..,,u, COLUMBIA. HABANA. CUBA.
,.... -..-r..l lrations are going on rap
a.. . le camps for the rainy
. Es reglmontal camp has a
,...I.t.-. use equipped with all modern
while wooden walkways
.. constructed along the
.- .re.s. The hospitals are being
.... Hth frames for all the tents,
..-. Quarters otherwise made as COM
e u.s. possible. AS a result. the
nll occupy Camp Columbia after
, ,r.ut occupants are gone will find
g rl -.aycnicntly arranged than we
I l.'th Of the corps and the work
hospitals is indicated by the fol-
First Division Hospital there are
.. mostly malaria and dysentery.
apo no infectious diseases i'm this
t. except measles and typhoid
.,- and there has been no death since
th 0f February. In this hospital.
, s under the charge of Major ). X.
... there are 2S5 attendants.
OIL. second Division Hospital there
f-.-t cases. the majority of which are
o.. malaria. Eight of the attendants
t scharged from this hospital yes
tr leaving $50. under the charge Of
l. G.. Brown. who was formerly
rec of the hospital at Montauk
i.
.e arc twenty-nine members Of the
--h Virginia in the Second Division
tal. The First North Carolina has
. TX there.
...re is one case of yellow-fever I'm the
c-nton ward of this hospital, making
t- second case which has developed du-
- the stay OF the corps in Cuba. The
i'm is Private George Renecke, OF
D-nany X. Second Louisiana. This regi-
r,. IS said 90 have more immunes IN
-ran any of the so-called immune regi-
I.~
Private ole Lundstrom, of Company H.
Y-r-r.nth Iowa, died yesterday of ty-
,..-f.rer at the Second Division Hospi-
g.. This is the eighth death I'm this regi-
mn, since they have been on the island.
l..-. c A. Johnson. Of Company g
Y- N.-a Carolina. died last Wednes-
Gr a -le same disease. Both were
ll rt the Marianao Cemetery
T. is expected that the wives. chlldren'
G.. other relatives of the American ON
Csr. who are in Cuba viii soon begin an
sius for the States i'm order 10 avoid
q, rainy season and the accompanying
agers and other discomforts commonly
associated with IL.
H is urged by those who have studied
a.. cuban climate and health conditions
tat very plain fare should be eaten. and
f.t water and wine and no lemonade
should be drunk at meals. Lukewarm
i.th- should be taken. and everything
Css done 20 impoverish the blood and
f.o.I euriching IL 50 as 10 leave no OPP
irtuuity for fever TO get in its work.
Th- canned roast beef, which is occu-
gng such a prominent place before the
public 40 present. doesn't figure now be-
f-s the average soldier, as it has sunk
lo 700 low repute. and although the
Camel corn beef IS somewhat different
from canned roast. there Is TOO close an
6s.o.ialon Of ideas in the name 10 re-
sore either 10 its former good standing
with fh- soldier
Corporal Vs. j. Heard. Of Company A,
Received bis discharge yesterday, and lett
to-day for bis home. in Norfolk.
Private Henry Whiting, of company d.
v has been confined 10 the Division
Hospital with fever. reported TO his COM
itar for duty to-day.
Captain g. Vs. Hope, Of Company d,
: b..a confined TO his quarters for the
..st week. suffering with a severe attack
G. lelra.-la.