The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-07-14
BRITISH WANT
MORE DOCTORS
IN THE ARMY
Surgeon-GeneraI Appeals to
Medical Profession to "MO-
billie" Voluntarily.

LONDON, July 14.-The govern
ment is calling for more doctors for
the army Surgeon-G Sir At
fred Keogh has appealed to the medt-
cal profession to mobilize" volntar-
lily, otherwise, it is suggested recourse
will have to be had TO medical con-
scriptiOn.
Many of the doctors in private prac-
tce at home object to modifying, even
voluntarily Many members Of the
British Medical Association main'all
that the army has already all the doc
tors it requires If it would only learn
how to emplay them to the best ad-
vantage. Some of them even suggest
that the war office should learn how
to do it from the enemy. One au-
thority says:
Asking for More.
Already the Royal Army Medical
corps has taken 1000 doctors from
private practice and they are asking
for another 1000 making in all $4,000.
This, with $4,000 medical officers in
the permanent service, gives a total
Of $500 to attend to an army Of about
four millions. The Germans, for an
army Of ten millions, have $4,000 med
ical officers.
"The position at home is serious, as
there are only 10000 medical men and
women in practice. With $1,000 tax
en- away no more than $4,000 are left
to attend a population of forty-pne
million men, women and Children. How
grave the position is may be suggest
ed by recalling that more than 5OO,OOO
Industrial casualties occur in this
country every year, which is hugely
heavier than the casualties at the Brit
ish front in year Of the present war"
1t is maintained that the whole prob
elm could be solved, without withdraw
ing any more doctors by a re-
organization of the royal army medi-
cal corps. Among the reforms they
urge are the following:
No Doctors Idle.
Substitution of the army for the
division as the medical unit, no doc
tors being thus kept idle because of
their division is not in action.
"Adoption Of a new system Of hos
iptals at the front and an abolition
Of field ambulances. 1t is estimated
that the latter change alone save
1900 doctors in an army Of million
men.
"Release Of doctors for home work
when there is no work for them to
do at the base hospitals. Under mod
ern conditions it is always known
when an attack is imminent. and the
staff would have twenty-four hours to
return to their base"
ANNUAL DERBY-SUNDY =. 49,.
VIENNA, July 15.-The great an
nual Austrian Derby, the banner race
of the Sporting season for all Austria
Hungary this year proved even more
than the anticipated success. 1t far
outdid the Derby of 1915, in general
interest. attendance and sporting fea-
lures.
Many of the big figures in society
and the smart and brilliant gowns OF
pcace-time we're lacking, but the
threatening weather was largely toI
blame for that.
Little Excitement.
The Austrian race track crowd is
totally unlike the one-time American
crowd. The nerve-racked excitement
Of the American track is lacking, and
when the horses come laundering
down the track-from right to left
instead of from left to right and on
sod instead of solid earth-there are
seldom any shouts for this or that
horse.
A feature Of the Austrian track Is
the surprising number OF women who
bet on the races. Thousands Of them
crowded to the pari-mutuel booths on
Derby day, feverishly thrusting their
ten and twenty crown bills to the
cashiers and jostlingly making their
way after each race to the pay-off
booth The women, too, furnished a
sight that is not common on an Amer
| lean track, for countless numbers Of
them stroTled about the paddock, or
leaned against the rail smoking Gig
/ aret after cigaret. They stood about
the huge announcing board with Gig
arets between their lips, program in
hand, carefully and skilfully checking
off the numbers Of the horses to run
in the next race and the names of the
Jockeys who were to ride them.
No Signs Of Var.
The only signs of war, if they
would strike even the outsider, we're
the gray uniforms of officers and SOL
diers who mingled with the crowd.
The most popular favorite did not
win, so there was sorrowtul element
in the homeward-bound crowd, but on
the whole it was happy and carefree
throng, certainly one that gave no
hint that fathers and brothers, hus-
hands and sons are spread out along
several hundreds Of miles OF battle
lines, or wounded in the hospitals. or
dead or buried.
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