White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1903-05-14

learn to control himself before he is fitted
to control others, aud third give it inspira-
ton by personal example | then eXhorted
in glowing language flowing from my own
heart not only TO adopt this rule in their
respective devisions, but each labor to eX-
eel the other in indting it in the daily life
and labor of every subordinate official and
attendant in their divisions of Hospital
TREY responded promptly and pledged the
best there was in them to my support.
This proved the key to success.
next organized quiz class, consting
of six division surgeons and myself a fac
ulty each in charge of a chair in surgery.
Chemistry, Therapeutics, Anatomy, etc.
We met weekly having lessons assigned
for the previous weeks study, when Prof
for each evening, would question class,
then at close of lesson close his book, and
have us come back at him, every member
with a question on the lesson The result
of this work was, that we we're all refresh
ed in both theory and daily practice, drawn
together both socially and intellectually,
every member passed with flying colors be-
ore the Army Medical E,xa minug Board,
and 80 assistant surgeons in Winder Hos
ptal were promoted to full surgeons.
1t may interest you to know that Miss
Emily Mason, niece of Senator Mason
of Mason and Slidell Ambassador
notorety, was chief matron of first di
vision Of Winder Hospital, that her person
al friends, two daughters of Robert E. Lee.
1 Mrs. Secretary Randolph, Mrs. Grant,
wife of the richest tobacconist in Rich
mond, with many others, would frequently
drive out from Richmond in their fine car
riages, to visit the sick and wounded. be-
came interested in the family history of
some wounded soldiers, sat down by their
bed sides and wrote letters to their loved
ones at home, and even fed them like
mothers with deicacies and viands they
would bring out daily from their own tables.
| hold before YOU chief surgeons, official
record of Winder Hospital Fund Book,
] which now commit to the Archives of
Army and Navy Surgeons in which will
be found the cardinal facts that disbursed
twelve hundred and twenty thousad dollars
of public funds, from April I, 1902 to
March I, 1865, that 70. 4r3 sick and wonnd-
ed were admitted $50 were transferred
to other hospitals leaving OF, 6S5 treated in
Winder with $3.50 deaths, just 500 per
cent of mortality A record at that day,
unprecedented in the annals OF
general military hospitals, whether in the
North or Europe.
} hold before YOU this clip, from the
Richmond Enquirer, of proceeding of con
federate states senate in which YOU will
find that as early as September Is, 1902
mortality in general hospital No. Z, was IC
: per cent. No. 49, II per cent; No. 9, Il
l per cent; No. 5, - per cent No. p, /.
per cent. Balance each 8, o and 70 pc
: cent, except Winder a remarkable ex
ception, where out Of 22S74 patients treat
e ed. the mortality was only six per cent
0 In conclusion permit me to remind you
y comrades, that every person, state, 0
II nation that stands for the defense of tn
h right and the truth, must have a history O
h conflicts and sorrows; that the memoris
/. which binds YOU TO the great herosm an
II mighty SacrafCeS of the past has alread
it become bow of promise to American graz
+ deur and power through the gallantry q
1t your sons during the Spanish-Am
/ War, forming a mighty prism to retleo
0 the noon-tide radiance OF your achicv,
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