Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-25
CAMP MCCLELLAN MEN
TO BE RETNOCULATED
Faulty Record of Border Work
Supposed Cause of Cen
eral Ruling
CAMP MCCLELLAN, Admission, Ala, Sept

CAMP MCCLELLAN, Admission, Ala Sept
25.
Thousands OF troops who had believed
that they would be exempted from the
typhoid, paratyphod and smallpox lnOSu moe,
lations and vaccinations will be compelieu
to take them again. Faulty records OF @ tne
incubation work that was done last yea
at the time the men we're treated When y"
the border service are believed 10 De respo,
sible for the decision of the war Depal
ment 10 have every man treated. The woIk
in this camp was started with the oi'lcer1 Ger,
of the general staff and the treatment VIII
be carried through the entire DIVISION
The directors of ambulances and held nos
pitfalls have arrived in camp for duty anu
the organization of the division sanitary
train will soon be taken up. II has aHeauy
been made known that the sanitary tram
is to he made up Of all Of the officers ana
enlisted men Of the medical department, IN,
Guiding the ambulance companies ana heIu
hospitals already in existence
Major Valentine Ruch Jr.. OF Englewood,
y. j., who has been detailed here as the
director of ambulances, will probably nave
much to do with the organization or the
two additional companies required to MI up
the trains quota Of four ambulance outhts.
The fact that New Jerseys company was
included in the Rainbow Division threw II
out Of the Twenty y-nnth Division. and II VIII
be necessary to organize two more compa-
mes as Ine MdFylHnu anu NiIBhii' '"''''''
are the only two now included.
One additional field hospital will also be
required before the division will have it's
quota of these units. Maryland, Virginia
and New Jersey have each contributed one
field hospital. Ma jor w. T Reichelderfer,
of the District of Columbia. will serve in the
same relationship to the organization Of the
new field hospital that Major Ruch serves
in the formation of the ambulance units.
The work of the organization of the SAM
tary train will be one of the most eXacting
duties of the whole reorganization scheme
here. The train, when complete, will en-
brace approximately 1900 troops Nine hum
dred of these will be with the train proper
and the remainder will comprise the various
sanitary detachments with the numerous
organizations. The men who go into the
composition of these outfits must he the
pick of the division, because they must
have certain qualifications not required of
the men in any other branch of the game
Under the present plan two of the field
hospitals and two of the ambulance COM
panies will be equipped with mule-drawn
vehcesA and the other two in each class
will be given motor-driven equipment Some
of the units are already supplied with the
ambulances and such equipment.
Already the medical units here have done
good work. The Virginia field hospital is
now being used as the temporary base hos
pital pending the completion of the mann
moth base hospital that is being constructed
by the Government on the reservation here
This hospital has been planned a per
manent base hospital for the United States |
troops and it will be mainta ined here even |
after the war It is being constructed at |
an enormous cost of almost a quarter of |
million dollars, It is located on one side !
situated parts Of the whole big !
camp.