Bisbee daily review., 1914-12-08
BERLIN HOSPITALS ARE CROWDED WITH
 SICK FROM RUSSIA
Soldier Wounded in the Camp
 aign Against Warsaw and Ivangarod Met With Terrible
 HaTdShips Before Getting Aid.

BERLIN, Zee 7.-Berlin has at present about l,tOO hospitals for the | wounded, the smallest accommodating ! forty cases while the larger ones have l from 400 to 600 beds
 In all there are said 10 be about ! 10000 wounded in Berlin hospitals, the number being maintained fairly constant although the individual pa. tients are constantly changing. A very large proportion of the wounded, it is stated, are soon discharged as again | nc for duty and return to the front No definite figures are available but an army surgeon who has had large ex- perience both in the field and in the base and reserve hospitals estimated that about seventy per cent of the wounded are returning or will return
 to duty, only thirty per cent, being permanently united for military ser vice
 The Associated Press correspondent
 was taken through six of the larger
 Berlin hospitals and found there many of the wounded from the recent cam paign against Warsaw and Ivangorod These men had had a particularly try
 ing experience Many of them,
 wounded before Ivangorod for exam.
 pie. had been transported in wagons
 for two days before reaching the Rus
 sian railroads and had been another
 two to four days en route over the
 Russian railroads before reaching the German railroads at Kattawitz, Si- lesia.
 Thence to Berlin the transport had , gone forward smoothly and comfort
 ably in the wonderful German hospit-
 al trains to Berlin but the first part of the journey had been a protracted , stage of pain and discomfort. Never D theless they were practically all in ! good spirits and in most cases making
 rapid progress toward recovery. Wounded lodged in the Royal con. servatory of Music, now converted , Into a model hospital, have in theil
 wards pictures by Van Dyke, Rubens , Velasquea and other old masters, the Y works in the school gallery having U been distributed among the various !. rooms. In the School of Applied Arts
 now also "a hosuigal the wounde,
 had before them for study beautiful
 porcelain ,enameled curious and tar I estries In ofe O fthe officers casinos U now converted into a hospital, anothe ', large collection of pictures of militar u subjects confronted them on the walls e Field hospitals are erected quickly l- A visit was paid to a new "Barrac
 hospital" composed of wooden, tran! pr portable barracks, each holding thirt In men In a few days this hospital t pr hold 200 had sprung up on Tempe Id hofer Field, hot and cold water ha le been installed, heating service pr y- vided, a thoroughly modern operatin at room equipped and it was figured tha in four days, if necessary, the entir e. hospital could be taken to pieces an ,r- placed on automobiles ready for shil sd ment to any place required.
 .e. Little is said in the Germans paper n- about sickness in the army Thel F has been considerable enteric troub ts but this Is disappearing with the a os vent of cold weather Tho entii
 army in the west had been yaccinate .o against typhoid, the men assigned s service in the East have in additic
 to be innoculated against choler
 Pneumonia, it is said, is comparativ
 ly not a danger since the men in q
 trenches are warmly clad, but oth I've diseases of the respiratory system al ed quite frequent Overstraln of the hea a is also a frequent cause of men beir ho invalided home or sent to hospiti of many reservists and volunteers brea nd ing down under the strain of ha
 campaigning