The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-23
TRAVELLER TELLS
OF ORIENTAL HOSPITAL

Among the passengers on the liner
coptic is DR. F. f. Fremantle. a county
health officer in England who is spend
ing some time in tour of the world
studying sanitary and hospital condi-
| tons in various countries especially
with view to the investigation of
tropical diseases. He arrived in India
last September and spent six months
in the study of the plague which was
then at its height, The awfulness of
this curse may be partially realized
when one hears that in a single week
during the height of the visitation there
We're fifty thousand deaths. From In
dia the doctor proceeded to the Malay
Peninsula where he spent some time in
the study of beri-beri in Singapore and
Siam.
Dr. Fremantle arrived in Toxic in the
middle of June and spent two weeks
there. The military hospitals he found
to be good. The medical system follows
the German school and is very thor
ough. All the volunteer hospital or
CARNATIONS in the country like the Red
Cross are conducted on the principle of
helping Japan first and humanity next
so they are under the thumb of the
military medical department. This ar
rangement has proven much more sat
1sfactory than the separate system in
vogue among the Russians as it saves
much unnecessary confusion and dup
lication of work. The new military hos
pltal at Toxic is a well-huilt structure
capable of caring for 1000 patients. 1t
is constructed on what is known as the
pavilion plan. the buildings being long
one-story wards connected by covered
passage ways It is of wood and thus
susceptible TO IRE but like most Jap
anese buildings there is not much to
burn and it would be easy TO remove
the patients on short notice.
This hospital is well ventilated, all the
windows being open during most of the
day and there is plenty of room. The
soldier does not demand much
in the way of comforts so that the
wards are not hampered by mass of
odds and ends. The nursing is done
by men of the military medical depart
ment and by the women of the Red
Cross Society. The japanese women
have all the qualities necessary to a
good nurse. They are kind, synpa
theticsN gentle and patient, although
their training is elementary. There are
about 1000 patients in the different hos
pitfalls of Toxic.
Five times a week the japanese wo- |
men OF the upper class meet to roll field |
bandages and to other work for the |!
at the front. once a week |
the European women meet for the same
These bandages are prepared |
with the strictest asceptic precautions. |
DR.. Fremantle saw three princesses of |
The blood royal and several harnesses
1t work rolling bandages. The royalty
md aristocracy have also taken up the
work of visiting the wives and families
If those who have gone to the front.
This is an innovation in Japan and is
significant fact for it is the first time
hat the upper class has mingled with
he common people.
After his visit in the capital of the
sunrise Empire DIR. Fremantle spent
month in travelling in North China and
Korea. He first visited F'usan which
s the coming port of Korea. The Jap
lnese evidently have some men who
ire not at the front for here he saw
big force at work rushing construc-
ion on the Fusan-Seoul railway which
designed to open up the Hermit King
om to the commerce of Japan. Twen-
Y miles of the railway are already COM
leted. At Cfiemulpo the japanese were
Justly engaged in raising the sunken
5 no more than an ordinary field hos