Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-27
ARMYS HOSPITALS
WILL BE COMPLETE
Country Has Taken its Lesson
From Experience of
Warning Nations.
BUILDINGS WILL BE LARGE
While Structures viii Not Be
Imposing, They VIII at
Least be Hygenic.
snecinl IN Tho Mnrld

Special to The World
OKLAHOMA CITY. Aug. 26.-Witn-
I'm a comparatively short time ove'
coo 600 of the pick Of the Young men
of America will be in training camps
preparing for active military service.
The standard of health among these
men Will be far above the average
TO start with. in addition the 500
ernmcnt is taking elaborate sanitary
and hygcnic precautions TO render the
camps as healthful rs possible Never
theless il is inevitable that among ~
many this provision for the construc-
ton OF hospitals is being made on n
vast scale. These hospitals will he
deliberately equipped. under the su-
pcrVision OF competent physiclaiS'
aided hy staffs OF trained nurses.
Provisions for caring for the health
of the soldiers now being made by the
medical department of the army in
clude the construction OF 32 hosplthlT
at the national army and nauona'
guard camps. the enlargement %
about thirty hospitals used In cons
nection with officers training camps
taking over or construction OF at least
two general hospitals near these ana
the building or taking over OF num-
sher of other general hospitals for spe-
cial treatment work Plans for tnis
phase of the work are not yet com
pletc. Efforts are being made L. So
cure hospital buildings already built
but some will probably have TO De
constructed. \ number OF sites al
ready have been offered
Make Artificial Limbs.
Another stcp to he worked out is
the provision Of reconstruction hospl-
tails. where artificial limbs Will be
made. repair surgery done, aruilca'
limbs fitted to patients and re-educa-
tion OF Cripplcs begun TO enable theH
10 use the artificial limbs provided
and again become useful members OF
society.
The aims OF the medical department.
IS To have hospital provisions for
per cent of the enlisted force 10y fall
and then extend this 70 10 per
cent. Abroad facilities for 90 per cent
OF the American cNpeditionary forces
Will he provided.
At cantonments hospital provision
will be made for per cent of the
troops at each camp. A complete nos
pital will be constructed at each, con
tanning at least one thousand beds.
with the space reserved for extensions
each hospital and its auxiliary build
ings will require about sixty acres.
This allotment will leave generous
space between the various buildings OF
each hospital Hospitals at national
army camps will cost approximately
100000 each. and at the national
guard camps whore construction Will
be lighter. about $4,000 This Will
bring the cost Of the ~ hospitals To
about $l4.500.00O. Each hospital will
have equipment equal 10 that of the
best institutions in the country altho
the construction Of the buildings will
be OF cheaper quality.
Buildings Are Narrow.
one type Is being used in all the
hospital construction work being done
by the army An the buildings are
narrow. the length varying 60 meet the
needs The wards are usually l5l
feet long. which is the size needed for
81 beds There Will DE a diet kitchen
fc- each ward porch on one side
and end OF each ward and corridor
connecting with the buildings on
either side which will be covered in
the ease of the northern clntoumeuts.
About seventy buildings Will be COM
p-.sal N each ot the hospitals on the
j .f0l-het basis I'm some cases two
wards are Joined. thus reducing the
actual number OF separate buildings,
bit the number OF buildings will reach
about seventy counting each ward as
A building. Each hospital will have
wel.-eQuippcd laboratory. where bac-
THEOLOGICAL and pathological work can
De done. Some special blood tests will
be made at the department hospitals,
which will take care of any work
which the divisional hospitals at the
camps cannot attend to.
There will also be an infirmary for
each regiment which viii tulfill the
functions usually performed 10y such
institutions There men not needing
To- be confined in hospitals will report
when any condition appears which
needs watching There vaccination
will be done and the typhoid and para
typhoid preventative treatments ad-