The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-25

and the health Of the troops has been
much better than experts expected. The
records show that up to the close Of the
war there We're admitted TO the hospitals
3D. IL soldiers. and the following table
VIII show what became Of them:
Admitted TO hospitals ................s5a.4 az
Recovered ard returned TO duty .,-.f,S64a
transferred west OF Lake Baikai. 10 81
Discharged as permanently disabled. - 2s5
DieG from wounds or disease $500. 1886
Stili In hospital ..,.............-........ 25ls5
These figures show pretty good rec
ord. much different from TIE t,opu4ar
impression The daily average OF the
SICK report through the war has been
81 ensih Of the army. This. however. is
exclusive of Port Arthur. I have no re-
Turns from thai point whatever, and was
not able 10 get any, / do not think the
itsslahs haFe(any reports or know any
Thing about the mortality OF the sick aud
wounded there. for they could not give
US any Information.
= : =
The official records of tho Manchurian
army, outside Of Port Arthur, show that
Inc killed in battle were ...............IS 4G7
Died OF wounds .......................a 5n
reported missing ......................59.1 40
Doubtless az OF the latter We're buried
py the japanese on the battlefields. where
their bodies were left on the retreats OF.
the Russians.
Calculations based upon the losses IN
PARTICULAR battles IN which the strength
o. the Russians is known, shaw that the
percentage of the killed and wounded was
4. % OF the total number OF men engaged.
According TO Woolsey, who is the highest
lhlHtsty authority we have, this is
very large percentage. He gives the tOtal
losses OF the Germans Ia the Franco
RUSSIAN war as Az per cent OF the army
present, whether engaged or not At Get
lysburg; which was one OF the bioOdiest
battles IN the history OF the world. 20 per
cert OF the troops engaged were killed
or wounded. At Gravelotte, which was
enc OF the Dloodlest engagements in Eu-
rope, the German loss was 1.Ss per cent
OF the men engaged. Thus YOU viii see
mat the percentage Of killed and wounded
IN Tue Russian army during the recent
was was the largest on record, and that
Is the best possible evidence OF the cour-
age and discipline OF the troops. There
was never any more desperate fighting in
the history of the world than that of the
Russian army from the beginning TO the
end OF the war
How about sickness-did they have
much typhoid fever?"
They had about 1000 cases of ty-
phold, replied Colonel Hoff, (which is
rather less than might be expected The
mortality was about 10 per cent, which is
apout ordinary. The hospitals were adj
mlfaDle. They were right up-to-date in
every parucular-in appliances as well
as methods. The organization of the
eullaf and quite different from that Of
any other army Their sanitary depart
ment, as IL is called, is made up % sew
erai divisions. The surgeons compose
one, the Red Cross nurses another. and
the evacuation" as they call il (that is
the distribution of the wounded in and
ack OF the theatre Of war;, composes a
third division. At frequent intervals the
patients in the hospitals are inspected
ana distributed according to convenience |
I'M DOM FaA Of h,
IN charge. Some OF the wounded and
diseased are sent to one place and some
10 others according to their condition
ana the condition Of the various h0spi-
tails. This inspection and distribution is
zone by 4 distinct corps called the /
evacuation" The fourth division is the |
veterinary service.
THE chief of the sanitary service is !
Lieutenant General IYanhoff, who is an 1
officer OF the staff of the commanding
general and has under him a staff of /
experts, representing the four divisions,
each having his particular Jurisdiction !
Under them is a similar organization for /
each army, and still farther down one
Tor each corps. There were five Russian I
armies in Manchuria-not including Port 4
arthur, for, as I have said I do not /
Know anything about the work there and |
was unable 10 learn anything. The first, |
second and third armies were in front |
OF the enemy, and did the fighting. The
fourth protected the lines OF communi- /
cation and the bases OF supplies in the /
r ar, while the fifth occupied which is /
known as the Pre- Amur' district, in /
Guiding Yladiyostok.
The health Of the Russian army IS l
largely due TO the simple and peculiar /
diet OF the soidierS which is ideal from
q military POT of view. Everything they
eat except bead is boiled. and their
food IS taken largely in liquid form.
They drink great deal of tea which
satisfies their thirst, and therefore thew
get along with little water as compared
with other armies. Their food f. most
often in the form of soup, and the pro-
cess of boiling steriiZes the material
used. and thus reduces TO a minimum
the dangers of infection. The official
meat ration per day is a pound of beef
for each man. ard they got 1t until re-
the meat supply Of Man
churia was nearly exhausted, Then they
were given more vegetables and less
meat Contrary to the popular impress
siOn all the supplies Of the Russian
sugar and other groceries
0hich is very FERTILE and capable OF sus-
tanning a large army, The crops this
year We're sufficient 20 support a million
men,
Your attitude toward Russia is sym
lathetice"
YES; everybody was very kind and at
eRtiVe 10 mo over there. and 7 appre-
IubS tl4eiF courtesy anu JllelF hospital I
". My mission having nothing 20 do I
With purely military work, naade-it pos
ibie for me 10 make many charming !
friends and TO learn in detail the work |
ngs Of the sanitary department. The I
Russians guarded their military secrets
Is closely as the Japanese. but did not
hesitate to open their hospitals for my
Inspection or to give me complete data
egardng their sick and wounded and
heir treatment. ] saw no battles, and
lence cannot speak from actual obser-
alton on that subject. ! can testify.
l0wever that tho Russian sanitary serv-
&c is entirely uD-to-d date and as nearly
ierfect az any ia the world. The sur
.eous are highly educated. proficient and
F0gressive, ard the equipment of their
hospitals is the very best and most mod
IN have ever seen. You can form an
dea from the fact that the Military
Ie6ical college OF Russia celebrated its |
centennial In 1898"