East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-11-06
AMERICAN HOSPITAL
IS BEST N FRANCE
WOUNDED SOLDIERS GIVEN CARE
EVERYTHING CONDUCTED
IN MODERN WAY.
CBy William Phillip simms, United
Press Staff Correspondent

(By William Phillip Simms. United
Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS. Oct. 19-(By Mail to New
York)-The American hospital here,
where wounded soldiers OF all the ma
tlonalities are taken care Of. is ad-
mittedly the best military hospital in
France.
Located in Neullly, just outside the
walls OF Paris In one Of the prettiest
residence districts about the city, this
institution, at the head Of which IS
Ambassador Myron T. Herrlck and a
group Of millionaire Americans, is TAX
Ing care Of some 400 patients. There
are French and English. German and
Austrians, Algerians, Hindoos and
Senegalese. and each patient declared
ne has drawn the grand prize In the
lottery Of hospitals.
l confess frankly that I visited the
hospital expecting to see the fad OF
a group Of rich citizens Of the United
states residents in Paris. I expected
10 see certain amount of good being
done, Of course, but after the FASH
Ion OF the dilettants. l expected to
find a mice" place run in mice"
way where mice" soldiers. more or
less wounded. were being treated By
nice" doctors in the incest way DOS.
sible. In short / expected to find a
plaything OF the idle rich-that is the
charge most often made against the
Americans residing in ParIs-a new
toy. an amusement OF a kind that is
different.
What / really found was the unex-
pected. / was led through one Of the
most up-to-the minute hospitals ex-
tant. conducted on most modern lines
by the most business-like OF men. And
the patients are plain soldiers, the un-
washed campaigners Of all the armies,
officers and men getting precisely the
same care.
The American ambulance is the
name given this annex TO the regular
American hospital. 1t is in new
school building which the government
took over at the beginning of the
war. The American Colony here
asked that 1t be turned over to them
for use OF hospital, all expenses to
be paid by Americans; the government
acquiesced.
Five weeks ago the building was
not quite finished. Brick and NOR
tar and debris were verywhere. The
windows had not been put in; dis
order reigned But now the estab-
lishment is a model Of efficiency and
order. In a basement room where
no kitchen was supposed ever to be,
a model kitchen has been installed,
the kitchen stoves and other machin-
cry from the Hotel Carleton here hav-
ing been transported bodily to the
hospital. There is a dining room for
convelescents; another for the per-
sonnel of the hospital; there are per-
fectly managed store rooms: a refrig-
Grating plant; another where water is
sterilized by ultraviolet rays, Ameri-
can elevators have been built in. one
for freight. one for patients; these
were completed in five days.
In Neuilly. the patinets are admit
ted to the hospital and given a first
Those whose condition
permit of 1t, are given a bath-for
most soldiers in the field stand badly
in need of water. The badly wounded
are washed as well as possible and
put to bed for short rest. Next comes
the operation IL necessary. then fol-
lows the daily care of nurses and ply
Lastly the dentist visits the patti !
ents. Their teeth are filled cd pulled: |
their gums treated. Some of the SOL |
diers for the first time hear a lecture !
on the subject OF toothbrushes and |
learn what it is to have a mouth full |
Of clean and well taken care Of teetlf |
The dentists who perform this free
service are among the best known in |
the world.
When the soldier patients are able
to sit up, during pretty weather they
recline Uneasy chairs upon flat roof |
and dring in the sunshine. They ad-
NIT they are spoiled; petted like chill
aren And among them are Arabs
whose only idea of luxury is a bit of |
stretched under a palm in the
edge OF the Great African desert
The board of directors of this hos
pital are American business men
whose homes are in Paris. There are |
five Of them and once every five days
each director becomes officer of the
day when. donning the white suit of
an inferno. he superintends the work
Of the entire institution.
The physicians are American and
French. whose names are known in
two hemispheres.
The nurses are mostly rich Ameri-
can society women and girls. some of !