Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-24
NATIONAL ARMY MEN
TRAINED IN HEALTH
Medical Officials Follow the
Policy of Conserving for.
Future Citizenhsip.

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NINETEENTH DIVISION. CAM
TRAVIS. Texas, Nov. 23.-No one
knows better than General Allen'
commanding the Goth division. nat
ional army, at Camp Travis, that an
efficient army Is an army compose
of soldiers who are in good health
Those who have sent members OF
their respective families to compose
this great division can have no more
comforting thot than that everything
that modern science. eternal vigilance
and constant watchfulness can do Is
being done to keep the soldiers at
Camp Travis strong in body and in
the best of health.
In no line of endeavor Is thai
axiom eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty" applied with greater energy
than at Camp Travis. The 9Oth division
is like one great big family. Its eff
cheney as n fighting unit is impaired by
each soldier in that command that IS
sick. Not Only to provide the creates.
possible efficiency, but also to CON
serve the bodies Of the soldiers for
the future is one of the problems
that has had the thot and attention
OF some of the foremost minds In the
medical world for the medical per-
posed OF physicians who have already
earned their right to speak with au'
thority upon matters of health, hy-
giene and sanitation.
Measles Kept Down.
In a family of thirty thousand there
is a constant danger and an ever pres
ent opportunity for the breaking out
and the spreading of contagious dis
cases. Measles and mumpS, concom-
itants of childhood days. make a
never ending fight to find lodgment
in camps. Mild cases of both these
diseases have, as was expected. ap-
peared at Camp Travis. But infected
units have been quarantined, stricken
cases have been placed in isolated
wards and the number of these cases
has been held at a much lower mini
mum than would have been the cases
I'm any city or the same population
as Camp Travis.
No ailment is given more careful
attention than the common cold. for
the common cold often furnishes a
splendid breeding ground for pneu-
monia. Pneumonia has appeared in
this camp. just like 1t has appeared
in other, communities in this state.
Against no disease is there waged a
more Vigilant war than against pneu-
monia. A common cold is taken in
hand by the physicians when 1t first
appears. Those thus affected are not
passed from under observation OF
physicians until it has been found that
the common cold is that and nothing
more.
The medical corps of the army he
lieves firmly and practices religiously
that an ounce of prevention Is worth
a pound Of cure. To the end that
disease finds no place in Camp Travis
where it can spread, no stone Is left
unturned to insure absolute cleanh-
ness in everything. The food served
the soldiers is scrutiniZed with scien-
tific eyes. Kitchens are required to
he spic and span and housewives who
take pride in their households can
well afford to envy the results Sc
cured. Shower baths, with hot and
cold water, are provided and the men
themselves see to 1t that they are
used by every soldier in Camp Travis.
An immense laundry serves the SOL
diers at charge of $3.50 per month
for all the washing the soldiers re-
Quire or desire done.
Sick Bodies Rebuilt.
On arriving at camp each soldier is
given a thoro. careful physical eX-
animation. Those with minor all
ments, or suffering from defects that
can be corrected thru known agencies,
are segregated into a separate bat
talon and there trained back to ro-
business. There are dental officers
who look after the teeth of the COM
mand and there are expert physical
training men who direct the work
of rebuilding the unfinished bodies.
The sick are treated at a large hos
pital known as the base hospital.
which has a capacity of one thousand
beds and a better equipped or more
well fitted hospital is not to be found
anywhere.
The result of all this care and at
tention is that soldiers at Camp Travis
are better looked after than 80 out of
every one hundred men at large. The
least of the things that should cause
anxiety for relatives and friends Is
the health of the soldiers at Camp
travis. Every officer at Camp
Travis must cooperate with and CO.
ordinate his efforts with the medical
officers. who are supreme in all things
that conserve the health of the SOL
diers
That the energies expended to keep
the soldiers at Camp Travis in good