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

| pitaL The greatest care is taken. how-
ever, and all visitors are compelled To
walk over an antiseptie mat before ems
terlng the wards. There are no wound-
| ed and very few sick. The principal
diseases are typhoid and dysentery.
| AT Tien Tsen there are German. Jan-
| anese, British and Indian hospitals.
| The Germans have appropriated the
Chinese university and a hospital crar1-
med full of apparatus and with eight
doctors TO care for forty-six patients
+, The japanese have new building with
full staff to care for eight sick. The
other hospitals are ordinary hut doing
good work. In Pekin and Tien Tsin The.
I powers still keep their garrisons placed
there during the Boxer revolt. There.
at least: you can find Russian and Jap-
anese soldiers side by side meeting. eacIr
other every day and on the best OF
terms.
While at Newchwang DR.. Fremantle
was able TO view the battle of Tia Shih
Chat from the housetops. He says that
all the Russian artillery batteries ex-
cept the horse artillery consist of eight
guns. The japanese batteries like those
OF other nations consist of six guns
During the progress of the battle it was
the opposing forces by the tufts of
smokes arising from the hills where the
batteries We're stationed.
The Russians have few field hospi-
tails in Manchuria because they have
twenty hospital trains fitted out with
the. latest Improvements. Each of these
trains has capacity of 400 wounded.
200 lying down and 200 sitting up The
Russian hospital bases are at Laio
Yang, Mukden, Hardin and other points
farther north. Many wounded are con-
veyed in barges on the Amur river and
some are taken TO Moscow. The RUS
slams have sent many experts to the
front including some eminent specials
lists in plague and cholera, neither of
which diseases is present among the
troops The Russians would not ac-
cept the Red Cross Society organized
at Newchwang.
At Chefoo DR.. Fremantle saw the
British fleet and from that port sailed
for Japan where he inspected the naval
hospitals at Sasebo, the great Japanese
naval base Here no less than ninety
per cent of the wounds were caused by
shells. As the Spanish war and the
Boer war did not cause many shelf
wounds this is the first time in modern
history that an opportunity has been
given for the study Of this class OF
wounds under modern medical treat
ment. The study has shown that the
wounds can be classed as those produc-
ing great decorations and proving fatal
and those causing flesh wounds, pain
full but not dangerous. Some of the
shells produce burns.
Hiroshima is the chief center for the
Japanese military wounded. There is
room for 1000 patients in its hospitals
and they are very crowded The bull
let wounds are very humane, no split
or dllm-dum bullets being observed
The Japanese bullets are the smallest
in use and at the hospital for Russian
prisoners at Matsuyama, on the island
of Shikoku, where 697 out of 1000 pris-
oners have been treated, it seems as If
the bullets We're too humane to accom-
plish their purpose. E.i
AS a general rule the japanese have
followed the German plan of letting
one head surgeon do all the operating,
a method which does not give the
juniors chance to get experienced
This, with rather poor field dressing and
4 bad latrine system, are the only faults
DR.. Fremantle has to find with the Jap
anese military hospitals. The spirit of
The sick is good and they are kept IN
hospital longer than the wounded in the
3oer war were.
DR.. Fremantle has written a detailed
'eport of his work for the British Medi-
al Journal.