Omaha daily bee., 1914-12-27
MANY WOUNDED IN BERLIN
Multitude Of War Victims Being
Treated at German Capital,
OVER A THOUSAND HOSPITALS
Smallest AccOmmO dates Forty Cases,
while Larger Ones Care for
-Four Hundred 20 six Hum
dred at One Time,
OVER A THOUSAND HOSPITALS

Correspondence OF the Associated Press)
BERLIN, Nov. 3O.--Berlin has at pres
emit about 1,1OO hospitals for the wounded.
the smallest accommodating forty cases,
while the larger ones have from 400 to GOO
beds.
In all there are said to be about 1000
wounded in Berlin hospitals, the number
being maintained fairly constant though
the individual patients are constantly
changing. very large proportion of the
wounded, II is stated. are soon discharged
as again fit for duty and return to the
front No definite figures are available.
but an army surgeon who has had large
experience both in the field and in the
base and reserve hospitals estimated that
about 20 per cent of tho wounded are re-
turning or will return to duty only 30
per cent being permanently untitled for
military service.
The Associated Press correspondent was
taken through six OF the larger Berlin
hospitals and found there many of the
wounded from the recent campaign
against Warsaw and Ivangorod. These
men had had a particularly trying ex-
perience. Many of them, wounded be-
fore Ivangorod for example. had been
transported in wagons for two days be
fore reaching the Russian railroads. and
had been another two to four days en-
route over the Russian railroads before
reaching the German railroads at Katto-
WITT, silesia.
transportation IL Good.
Thence to Berlin the transport had
gone forward smoothly and comfortably
In the wonderful German hospital trains
to Berlin. but the first part of the jour
ney had been a protracted stage Of pain
and discomfort. Nevertheless they were
practically all In good spirits and In most
cases making rapid progress toward re-
covery.
Wounded lodged in the Regal Cen
servatory of Music, now converted into a
model hospital, have in their wards pic
lures by Van Dyke, Rubens. Velasquez
and other old masters, the works in the
school gallery having been distributed
among the various rooms. In the School
oc Applied Arts, now also a hospital, the
wounded had before them for study beau
tiful porcelain. enameled curios and tapes
tries. In one of the officers casinos, now
converted into hospital another large
collection of pictures of military sub
jects confronted them on the walls.
Field hospitals are erected quickly. A
visit was paid to a new ''barrack hos
pital'' composed of wooden, transportabie
barracks, each holding thirty men. In a
few days this hospital, to hold 1900. had
sprung UP on Tempelhofer field. hot and
cold water had been installed. heating
service provided, a thoroughly modern
operating room equipped and it was fig
ured that in four days, il necessary, the
entire hospital could be taken to pieces
and placed on automobiles ready for ship
ment to any place required.
! Little is said in the German papers
about sickness In the army. There has
been considerable enteric trouble, but this
disappeared with the advent of cold
weather. The entire army in the west
had been vaccinated against typhoid; the
men assigned to service in the east have
in addition to be inoculated against chol-
era. Pneumonia, II is said. is compare
lively not a danger since the men in the
trenches are warmly clad. but other dis
eases of the respiratory system are quite
frequent\ overstrain of the heart is also
frequent cause of men being invaded
home or sent to hospital, many reservists
and>yolunteers breaking down under the
strain Of hard campaigning.