The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
 IN MUNICH NEARLY
 ALL HOSPITALS NOW
National Museum Is an Orthopedic Department
 for Treating Grip pied Limbs

Munich, Germany, September 10. tCorrespondence of the Associated Press)-American tourists who have visited the Bavarian capital and who have worshipped at the artistic shrines in the famous National Museum, prob ably would be shocked to find the for mer quarters of old masters now trans formed into a huge orthopedic depart ment for treating crippled limbs. and to see almost naked soldiers bathing in the fountains of the wonderful gar dens and taking sun baths and gym nastic exercises on the lawns.
 The National Museum, however, Is not the only Munich building to have undergone great changes. The mag nificent new custom house is now a hospital. In the rooms where formerly bag gage and freight were inspected hundreds of wounded soldiers now lie on cots. In the office of the collector of customs surgeons sleep and in the transfer department there are rows upon rows of medicaments.
 Ideal Transfer Station
 The availability of the customs house as a hospital and especially as sort Of transfer station for wound ed soldiers was apparent almost as soon as the wounded began to come
 
 right to one side of the huge build ings and soldiers not only can be un- loaded from them as easily as baggage but may also be transferred to other trains for other parts of Bavaria With a minimum amount of trouble and to street cars for other hospitals in Mun- ich
 The amount of customs inspection that is now necessary in Munich IS i approximately nil, so that it was es- i sentially simple matter to transform the character of the building. None Tn the whole city has so perfectly htteo ! the requirements of a hospital, Tor IT addition to the splendid facilities fol taking patients right off hospital trains the rooms are large and airy and several of them are well lighted to serve as operating rooms.
 Munich, like a dozen other German cities, has turned its largest indus trial school into a vocational schoo for crippled soldiers. The building ha' a capacity of several hundred pupils l and all the necessary appliances fol | teaching soldiers new trades, or rol teaching them how to continue theil old trade, notwithstanding impaired i faculties.
 The vocational school consists reall! of three departments. In the frs wounded soldiers are, so far as 1t Il 1 possible, cured. At least open wounds are closed and they are given the reg ular hospital treatment until 1t Is deri nitcly established that stiffened les never will become Timber or crushed i or smashed arm better.
 Schools for Wounded When his physical status has beer definitely established the soldier moves on to the vocational or industrial de partment where his capabilities ant inclinations are studied. Then he zoe into the bindcry or the print shop, tn carpentry department or the school o mechanical arts If for instance, hi arms and hands are unimpaired, n may learn stenography. typewritinI and bookkeeping.
 The third department meantime De l comes interested in him and, befor' he is ready to leave the institution l secures for him a position in which h. may earn at least a portion of tn wage that he was capable of befor' going into the war
 Munich, as the capital and larges city in Bavaria, has quite naturally tn l largest percentage of Bavarian wound 1 ed to care for. With every resource financial social and economical, sh set out at the start of the war to SCI to it that no German city should sur pass her in the excellence of the car accorded the wounded