The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-10
TROOP HOSPITALS
 IN CALLIPOLIARE AMONG THE BEST
Turkish Soldiers Well Taken Care Of By Excellent
 Medical Corps.

stantinople, Aug. 10-The health of the Turkish troops at the Gall1poh and Dardanel1es fronts is good, and the wounded from these theatres of war are well cared for. To this may be added that the Turkish medical staff has shown much resourcefulness and that the occasional paucity of materials and medicaments is met in a, spirit one would not expect to ma in an organization of when so I1ttle good was said during the late Balkan war The capacity of the hospitals in spected. by The Associated Press cor respondent is over 5000.
 Car4p hygiene Is well administered in the Ottoman army Trenches visit ed were found to be scrupuIously clean The food of the men is we'll cooked and care is taken that none but good water is drunk by the men, Every effort is made to keep the cloth ing of the men free from Verm1n and to facilitate this retortss in which in fested clothes may be baked or dis infected, are built wherever they are needed. Great ingenuity has been displayed in this. As a rule, the re- tort is nothing more than a large hole in some convenient hillside, similar to a, bakeoven. Its floor is paved
 
 this two other holes are dug for the fire that is to heat the retort- The constrac ction is extremely simple and no ta single piece of iron is used in it. Even the door of the retort Is gener- ally a large rock.
 In the camps visited all latr1nes were found in an excellent state. Lime was being used as a disinfectant, be- cause other chemicals can not be had in Turkey at present. To combat the fly pest messes and Kitchens are. placed so that air currents can sweep through them. This method is not as effective as screening, but screens are hard to get in Turkey It may be said in this connection that the experience of the Turkish troops on the Gallipo1i peninsula with flies has been a. most trying one, but that, so far; the fly has not proven as great an agent of disease as has been charged in. other parts of the world It Is thought, however that this is largely due to the fact that the Turkish sol dier eats very little uncooked food or cooked food which has been exposed to contamination long His mess of rice, beans, peas and meat is general 1y too hot to invite a fly.
 Every battalion in the field has a surgeon and a number of trained san itary service men. Upon these rests
 
 Though this little organization is also expected to be of service to bhe wounded and sick, it's first duty is dis ease prevention.
 All men at the front have been vac- cinated against typhoid and typhus- vaccinated men are given certificate. The constant changing caused by losses and endorsements makes fre- quent inspect ons of these certificates l necessary. Men who fail to produce 1 a. certificate iTnm mediate1y re-vac- l cinated. The same is true of men whose certificate shows that the period of immunity resulting from prior vaccination is about to expire. So successful has been this method that 1 on June 24 when the correspondent visited a 1azarett for contagious cases. l tn centre Turkish force on the penin- l su1a had but three cases of mild en- 1 teric fever and none of typhoid or ty- phus.
 Sick and wounded are never admit ted to the same hospital, nor are they T treated in the same tent even at the front
 One of the 1azarettes for the sick 1 visited was a model institution of it's kind, and, odd to relate, the lack of material and other unfavoraYble condi- tions had made it so- In it's former I location the lazarette had been bonn
 
 the large white tents had been a wei I come target. So the lazarette had to be shifted. Major Jack Messim chief physician, then discovered thai his itentage had suffered considerably from the aerial bombardnent. The I new site of the lazarett was well I wooded, and this led to the building of large permanent booths of pine tirnbers and lboughs. The boughs or the roof and sides of the booth do not I permit the hot sunlight to enter while giving free access to the breeze and the fragrance of the rosi1n an6 pine needles is good deodorant.s The old tenting has been converted into sheets that may be stretched over the booth in case of rain It is doubtful whether the sick of any other army are as well situated as those in care o1 Major Messim and his staff. His loss through death from all eases are SC far less than two' per cent Non-con- tagious diseases only are treated in his lazarett.
 Similarly constructed are the , 'Hbuildings'' of the hospital for severe wounds in charge of Ismes Bey, cap. tain surgeon The Messim and Isme. establishments lie under the same hil and are separated by a gorge in whose Shelter the bacteriological and chemi cal laboratory of the two instituti ons operates.
 Ismes Bey cares for all the severely wounded of the Turkish Avi Bournou group. Its booths and tents are To- cated under tall pine trees and are well kept. The beds, though none too comfortable, perhaps. are scrupu lously clean and the well-being of the patients is promoted by having ner from the working reserves keep the 1 flies from them with white clothe: fastened to long, thin poles The construction of the booths does no permit "fy probing and good venti1 ation at the same time. and since the flaming against the flies also tends te keep the men cool, Captain Ismes Bey decided upon the method of fy-chas ing employed.
 Isnes Bey belongs to the class O: