The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-10
Wounded Indians In England Must Be
Handled in Peculiar Man
nor by the Authorl-
ties.
RITES ARE OBSERVED
Dead Are cremated by Members Of
Their Own Caste With
Proper Cere-
monies.
[By Ed. L. Keen, United Press Staff
CORRESPONDENT.

[By Ed. L. Keen, United Press Staff
Correspondent
LONDON, Sept. 20.-(By mall ,
Caring for wounded Indians in Eng
land Is no simple task, say war office
authorities who supervise the 1000
bed hospital at Brighton.
This hospital Is unique in England
due to absence Of women nurses Not
IA woman is among the 400 surgeons.
nurses and orderlies. The institution
is operated by the Indian medical SER
vice, whose task Is to safeguard the
various classes Of Indian wounded by
adherence to fixed customs and laws
so the individuals may not lose caste.
There are eight kinds Of diet and
separate cook houses for six classes.
Food is prepared in twenty-one cook
; houses on the hospital grounds and
that of the subordinate staff in six
teen cook houses in Brighton village.
Hindu cooks must be of the same or
higher cast than the patients.
Preparation of meat Is a problem.
All Mohammedans eat beef. The
practice is abhorrant to Hindus, to
whom COW is sacred So no beef is
allowed inside the. hospital. Pork
also is prohibited. Mutton is the prin-
cipal meat diet. Indians themselves
must slaughter the sheep in the spe-
cial manner prescribed by their reli-
gious sects. Many special slaughter
houses have been erected for them.
! For Hindus the custom Is to sweep
off the head Of the sheep with the
sword. For Mohammedans the head
! of the animal at slaughter must be
! turned toward Mecca. The Moham-
medan slaughterer, must be person
who prays five times daily and who
utters a prayer as he Yields the
sword.
! All Indians are cleanly. according
to the rules Of their religion. which
DEGREES five prayers daily and bath
Hbefore each prayer. Therefore sixty
and seventy gallons of water are pro-
vided for each OF the 1000 patients.
Those who die at the Brighton hos
I pital are creamated by members OF
their own caste on specially pre-
I pared site on the nearby downs. The
! burning is done on a funeral pyre of
wood logs, in the same manner and
with the same ceremonies with which
creamation would be conducted In
India. t..
Eneland's leading sculptors have
! apaHuoueu Lie hho al 20 W h"ip 'io
surgeons
One OF I.ondon's largest hospitals
has now added its sculpture depart
ment." This new department. how
ever, has nothing to do with art. 1t
has to do with finished casts of hui
man limbs and other parts of anatomy,
the reproduction being used to guide
surgical instrument makers in the
manufacture Of proper splints for
wounded soldiers.
! A soldier Is brought from the front
with a shattered hip. Men, whose
work Is the admiration Of art Of the
worlds art -galledies first take the
case in hand. They cast the injured
! hip and finish down the model. It is
sent to the splint maker. His product
| is hastily made and the surgeon Ats
the splint
The man who might have been a
cripple for life will some day thank
the sculptors.
An eleven year old English girl
student in a London school explained
In an essay the cause Of the war be-
tween England and Germany as fol-
lows:
/ "The origin Of the war was this
! When the German emperor was at
! Windsor he insulted Queen Victoria
and so King Edward smacked him
around the face. The German EN-
peror said, I'll be avenged Hence
the war;.
An infant son OF natriotic British
e-. baptized at st. Michae's church
Stonebridge park. was named "Regi
nald Dardane1les."
Some expert on the making Of wal
munitions estimated that 1t takes
three tons OF coal to produce three
ordinary sized shells