Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07
DRUGS FOR THE WAR
COST $10O,0OO,OOO
France Treating Her Injured
Sons by the Tens of
Thousands.
40 TONS OF MEDICINE
ARE SENT OUT EACH DAY
Hundreds of Men Are Made Hideous
by Terrible Wounds Re-
ceived at Front.
BY HERBERT COREY.
Copyright, 1850

copyright, l9lo.)
PARIS, October 15.-These figures
may carry the suggestion of blood and
tears, perhaps, but they will still be
figures. No attempt is to be made to
show the magnitude of the war by
their means. That would be like look
ing at a mountain by the light of
candle. At the best one could hardly
see beyond his boots These figures
may afford a glimpse at some features
of the struggle. They may help a
peaceful nation to understand what
war means.
The Care st. Lazare is one of the
great railway stations of Paris. Wound
ed soldiers sometimes drift in there by
twos and threes. Only those who can
travel alone ever get to the ST. Lazare.
Those who come in hospital trains all
pass through La Chapelle station, the
great receiving center for Paris. In
the basement of the Care st. Lazare
are two small rooms in which the
them welcome. They are given warm
meals-one of the most esteemed
cooks is a duchess and another is a
baroness and every woman in at
tendance is Of the aristocracy-and
those who can are permitted to sleep.
In six months $1,000 wounded men
have drifted through those two rooms.
1t is generally estimated that one
tenth of the total population of given
section is made up of men of mill
$4,000 people. In six months. then, as
many hghting men as Boston could
turn out have passed through these
rooms. They were all wounded.
A City in One Hospital.
There are 400 hospitals. containing an
aggregate of $4,000 beds. in Paris and
vicinity. At the invitation Of the
French government I have this week
visited few of the more interesting
ones. They offered more figures. On
the Champs Elysees, for instance. is
the handsome building known as the
Grand Palais. In peace it is used for
exhibitions of various sorts. The horse
show and the automobile show and the
aircraft show and the Paris Salon are
held there. Now it is being used as
1000 out patients visit its surgeons
every day for treatment Since the be-
ginning Of the war 81. 900 wounded men
have been treated there.
There are 65,064 people-men, women
and children in Savannah, Ca, by the
latest census.
The Pasteur Institute is at Garches,
out past st. Cloud, in the buildings
which were once occupied by the 1OO
personal guards of the great emperor.
The stalls, which were built for their
blooded chargers, are now in possession
of 24O cast-off horses from the army,
which are utilized for the production of
serum for combating tetanus, diphthe-
ria. the plague and meningitis.
1--WE produce enough serum for the
incubation of 10000 men each day."
said the scientist in charge. I'VE keep
enough serum on hand for the inocu-
lation of 100000 men,"
quaint proof of the increased activ-
ity Of the institute is afforded by the
demand for guinea pigs. Usually the
institute works through 1000 of these
little beasts each year in testing the
quality Of the product and in expert
mentation. This year $4,000 guinea pigs
will be sacrificed to science and the
world war.
The typhoid preventive is made at
Val de Grace Hospital. in Paris proper
There enough anti-typhoid vaccine can
be turned out each day to insure 100.-
900 men against the disease. Only about
5000 are being vaccinated daily now,
however. Presumably that represents
approximately the rate at which
Frances army is being recruited. as
typhoid vaccination is compulsory in