The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-15

the public health is difficult to answer, as it may we'll have suffered without this becoming appreciably apparent in the morbidity and mortality statistics. had opportunity to examine the mortality curves of different diseases since the beginning of the war, at the office of Stadtmedizinalrat Weber. The figures show no increase in the mor- tality. Infant mortality has kept at the same level as before the war, and in absolute figures has declined. as there are fewer young infants. There has neen to increase In the mortality from epidemic diseases except that in the last months.
 Treatment of Wounded.
 '~Tne treatment of the wounded and the solving of all the questions connected herewith, into the smallest details, was stamped on the whole of the Germans preparedness and efi- ciency (Tyskernes hele Forudseenhed az Dygtighed). The hospitals for the wounded are so numerous at Berlin that the beds have never all been oc- cupied at one time. Some are in new barracks, erected and well equipped for the purpose, others in schools and other buildings. The trains from the battlenelds run to the doors of the barracks hospital. We saw one train that had arrived an hour before from tho western seat of war, and it was empty. All the wounded had already been installed in their beds. At the beginning of the war the wounded were re-transported on filters which were suspended from springs to overcome the movements of the train. But it was found that the vibrations of the springs kept the men from resting while tho litteFs were carried off with the wounded, and the train sometimes had none left. For these among other reasons, 1t was found better to have beds built into the car. with a spring bottom. They are arranged in a dou- ble row, one above the other, length wise of the car. The train had its kitchen, pharmacy and operating room. but as few operations as possi- ble are done on the way. The chief of the laxaret is . military surgeon but he attends almost exclusively to the administration; the physicians in the different barracks work independ- ". the convalescents interested; lessons aze given in languages and in practical trades. All the barracks hospitals have grounds where the men raise chickens and rabbits, and there is much emulation between the men. The meals are good. In all the hospitals I visited, both civilian and military, I was impressed with the fact that any scarcity of provisions was not al- lowed to affect the diet of the sick.
 The hospital food everywhere was above reproach.
 Special Hospitals.
 Besides these general hospitals to which all the wounded and the sick are referred, there have been organiz- ed a series of specialist departments for special affections. Thus the Col lege of Sculpture at Charlottenburg, which also has been taken for a hos pita1, Is devoted mainly to 1esions of the jaws. Some of them are horror inspiring when they arrive,- the lower part of the face and the greater part of the jaws shot away. It is wonder full to see how nearly human such faces can be made after a few months of treatment. The principle is to re- move as little tissue as possible. Com
 minuted fractures may heal and new bone proliferate from scraps of perios- teum: Only when it is. seen to what extenNeNvature can be counted on in the repair. is aid afforded by transplanta- ton of a piece from the tibia, fat tissue from the abdomen, skin from the arm, and, thus gradually a new fo<p io cd necessary with prostheses for all the teeth and palate. The whole is really
 worthy of the institution in which 1t is housed, an actual College for the Plastic Arts. Dentists as a rule are in charge and do the work, as it was assumed that 1t would be easier for a danfiSf f1a sI11ana1arraonf hia ulx