The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-10-04
and care and nursing ready and wait

ana care ana GufSl1g reaQy ana Wal'
iug.
The pharmaceutical side OF thes
I1ilitar? hospitals is an auxiliary ma
chine, working in perfect harmon
with tie Whole. Like the field SCI
vice, it is i4disputabiy responsible 10
all the aedica; aad surgical supplies
and is uss than upon rsquisition
the doctors and surgeons. Beside
this the department IS responsible to
all sterii:zsG mix, Washing OF band
agss and rerolline, Gisinfection OF bed
Glug, and the making OF clemics
tests Of urine.
Every hospital throughout Jaral
aud every bcse and field hospital j!
Manc,lur;a has It's psychological Lab
oratccy.
''Teo ruch cannot be said in en-
5husias:i, comnenoation ct this sid'
Of the sersics. Undoubtedly the pains
taking resea: :c;9eS haze been the mean
OF saving thousands Of lives by fore
stating possible ep!denics, and say
ing individual life by promp5 dsterni
nation Of the trouble. No man SUI
fers from temperature but whose bloot
goes under the microscope. Malaria il
malaria, aud typhoid is typhoid in th'
japanese army. Diseases are no
guessed at, IS they were in Cuba, tht
Philippines and South Africa, where
often for a full week the physicians
attempted to diagnose cases by sleign1
CT hand and trick Of eye.
''Tne limits Of this paper DO moi
admit Of more than the merest refer
encs to the splendid system Of santa
5ion followed in the field. Suffice it tc
say that during the campaign extend
irg over ysar and hall, with from
300 900 to 100000 soldiers undergoing
the Severest hardships and privations
OF active service, there are in the
japanese army SO men out Of every
100 who have never reported al SICK
call; 36 men who never ssw the inside
of hospital o. were sick in quarters,
a record absolutely unparalleled. The
R2r has taught many lessons and de.
stroyed many ideals in matters mill
tary, as in matters surgical. In surgi.
cal technique, or IN the afser-treat.
ment of the wounded and sick. the
Japanese haVe taught the foreigner
com paratively little, but in the field
Of sanitary science and 6ietetics they
have demonstrated, what has never
been done before, that prsVentable
DISEASES are preventable.
They have pres, vsd their armies
tor the legitimate pl rp SOS for which
armies are enlisted; tie killing or con-
ausring OF an open enemy In The field,
Instead OF having four f'ths OF It's
mortality Yic5ims to the silent foe.
1t is against this dreadful scourge,
this needless sacrifice, that the Japan
csc have made their hardest fight and
Won their most signal Vlctories-vic-
tories that will rebound more to their
credit taan even the expulsion OF the
aggressor.
"a dispatch received In London on
21 from the Tokyo CORES
ponden5 OF the London STANDARD, Civ
lns the statistics Of the war to tnat
date, reports:
Killed, 46, $50; died Of wounds,
10, go; died from sickness, Is, 300
This percentage OF death to sickness
was less thsn ons-fourth OF the total
dead, which is a record not paralleled
In the annals Of war.
When contemplating these maj
Velous figures, with what CHASTITY
and melancholy smile the hero OF
Manila must recall his action in con-
soring the cablegram Of the chief sur
geon who had requested so additional
n, m,dical officers ard 200 more nurs:s
when the hospital WARDS were over
crowded, becauss such a dispatch
would prove The fslsity OF his claim
THAI be had the situation well IN
hard' Months a.terWardS the sur
xecus and nurses we're provided, but
not until the horrible condition was
and taps had sounded the
requiem for many poor ooy Who had
joined toe great majority.
Perhaps the same delight may So
lace the conten piative commander In
tie Cuban campaign, when be recalls
lis famous order at Tampa, directing
Tho unloading Of 8 ship filed wish
medical and ,pital supplies for San
tiago, and the substitution OF a load
OF mules Instead.
Or G. another major general dur
Ing that var, who on being waited
u 2ou by certain medical Cfl GERS With
a protest against the use Of certain
water said, In response to their com.
plant: V;u.H rant your advice, ]
viii Sand for yo,.; until I do, you car
attsnd TO your own business
"Or even If tie then secretary c1
war, who, when Inspecting the camps
at Mo1oauk Point with the president
Of The United States, said on looking
at a glass OF water furnished the
troops Of this infected camp, and
which certain medical men had pro.
nouncea to contain germs ct diseases
why, it locks all right 20 me-
"Uatil tee line and staff officers OF
the Anscican army is taught the
necessity Of sanitation, and the nedi-
cal fioer is given raak and authority
to enforce il, our medical department
must remain humiliating failure.
It's continuance under present condi
tious is no less than an evidence o1
national inbecilitg."
Battle With shark.
TIE Nea York American says five
fishermen on Long I.land Sound wers
chased "Wednesday by a big shark
ghich 7iciously attacked their boat!
anG gave aheoc desperate battle. Or:
we're ussd ipct7sctivaly to beat eff the
rsqelLuS fish. The fight took place al