The Nome daily nugget., 1915-06-04

] here but now it is only the typhoid cases.
 There is a pump in the yard, but not tap in the building. Every drop of water must be carried upstairs, and heating it is a difficult matter. At first we had only one jug to carry 1t there are exactly five basins for wash ing the patientsi And there were but eight cuspidors in the place-they had been using the hoor-but now we have twenty empty condensed milk cans ill use as cuspidors There is but one chair in each ward, and no bed tables, oo mugs, cups and anything go on the hoor. AS yet We have not ImproVIsed d place tor dlSnleCtlnS tAe solled Anen. We need dlsIuIectant badly.
 "Ine mattresses are all old ones from the barracks, straw and Jumps o1 Wdd- uIng, ana each one IS worse than ulths and smells 1rlghttully, as you will un- uerstand when l tell you they have never had such thlng as d drawsheet. I ne men seem 50 surprised when We wonder IS that there Is no bed sores, Il think the reason Is because each one of the men has walked out to the toilet whether staggering with uelirlum or not. When we first got there We all stayed on day duty to try and get the patients clean and their beds made. They one and all said that they had not been washed for three weeks, or had their beds made. So many could not be cared for by so few. You can imagine the condition of their mouths -frightful!
 My first night began with death a poor little boy of eighteen. He died in full view of all the petients such a thing as a screen is unheard of here and after he died two orderlies just carried him away to the attic. As they were carrying his, delirious patient got out of bed and was tottering bN the door; the orderlies had to put the stretcher down-with the body-on the landing, and secure the wanderer In the meantime, several of the other patients who were going to and fro to the toilet, had to step over the stretch Ia tnilntG each landing-all in full view and are only wine Vats cut in half with board oyer the top for a seat. Of course, they are occupied almost constantly and We are short of disinfectants. "I am writing this in the ward with ten delirious men around me, some coughing constantly and some mutter- ing. while others-I think I had better stop. Each detail, as I think of it. seems worse than the last; it is grue some and all so frightfully unsanitary
 "Of course we all have bad throats. It could not be otherwise. The odors |are terrible. So many of the patients have bronchial pneumonia or pleurisy with the typhoid. The way the cases are mixed up is awful. too-a typhoid pneumonia and tubercular case side by side and most using the same sputa cup. Upstairs a ringworm man is at large, getting nothing for it. not even an ointment. I have never seen so many rings at time-all over his scalp and covering half his back.
 "This place is a veritable pesthouse but what can We do without suffie tent help or supplies! We need every thing-medicines food, bedding. and, most of all, disinfectants."
 From another temporary hospital comes this report;
 is work-no glamor about it. It is pretty awful, but our party is working splendid and, certainly. there is no question as to whether we are wanted There is enough work for fifty women to do, but it is not possible to send for more as there is no accommodation anywhere.
 "We have absolutely nothing here no supplies. The men have no socks and they wear their dirty uniforms in |bed. We have no clean shirts, no bed jackets, no slippers It is impossible to buy anything here.
 "There are three hundred and fifty wounded-sometimes five hundred. Most of these men are terribly injured. help with the dressings and see some awful sights Would be so grateful
 for anything you might send. You
 have no idea how badly things are
 needed practically everything" l The American Relief Clearing House