The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-10-31

that simple. Staring eyes and wild
waving OF hands aud strangely shaped
heads and mcanny pcculiaJiticS oi Ia
cial expression arouse a fear that the
inmates OF this ward will never shoul-
der gun again.
Officers to Sanitarium.
What will Uncle sam do with them
you ask
I've let their families take them If
they will, but in the majority OF cases
they refuse to care for them. Yes, we
have had such a case here. We keep
them as long as we are encamped,
then we turn them over to the sher-
III In case they are officers, we send
them to ST. Elizabcth'S sanitarium just
out OF Washington"
The mess sergeant tells in his funny
Irish way OF an inmate OF this ward
jumping from one table in the mid
die of his dinner and running until
some poor tired soldier captured HIM
Metcslf Chief Surgeon.
Lieutenant Colonel Mctcalf is the
chief surgeon OF this division Major
Boland is in charge Of the Sanltarium
OF the camp and Major O'Rcllly is
Colonel Matcali's right hand bower
Major Pcrescau is in, charge OF the
base hospital The stali OF the base
hospital includes twenty-Six surgeons
two dental surgeons, two sanitary OF
ilcers and one Quartermaster There
are ll6 medical officers outside the
base hospital Each regiment has
seven physicians, whose duty, accord
ing to Colonel Metcalf, is to keep the
boys out Of the hospital" Every
morning at 7 o'clock each company
has sick call While we may be dupcd
into believing that some are i'll who
really put one over us we had rathcr
let ten takers pass than to miss on'
man who was actually in need OF med
ical attention" Colonel Mcteali said
Out back of where the new kitcher
will be three or four men were pilinI
long logs OF wood
Ntft lllNNN dlN bul ~ dlUNh llul NNNt
said the mess sergeant, bubbling with
humor They practice on the wood
and maybe tomorrow they will have
nice job-digging holes or some
thing. Yes. they can nurse the sick
when It's their time"
A Strange Combination.
Evidently, army life makes mar
versatile in the largest sense of the
word Cording wood and nursing the
sick Strange combination Of duties
All the nursing in the base hospital
has been done by men But lol This
is at an end. Miss Gertrude LuStig
who is to be the head nurse, has arrived
and so have several other nurses. The
quarters for them arc uniurniShcd buI
they will begin active duty as soor
as possible
"Ihc first thing I want 10 do" Miss
lustig said, "iS to get the hospital or
gained The head nurse ha, beet
in army service eleven years She ha,
spent her energies in the Philippines
California, Washington. New Mexico
Arizona Honolulu, and has made
trip around the world. nursing
T. W. c. DietitiAn Selected.
Miss Nancy krilSer, formerly dleti
tian at Texas Numans college, is TN
base hospital dictitian She will oc
cupy part OF the nurses quarters. II
to this time, every patient, officer ant
man in charge has received the sam
food. The new kitchen IS not com
pleted and the mess sergeant is handi
capped The diet kitchen is also yc
to be finished
The mess hall contains two Ion
tables and two long rough hcw
benches, Here about 500 men are ie
three times a day For each meg
three different groups must be fec
First the patients come, then the pr
Yates and then the officers
"Now idrty-SiN women nurses ar
coming, and what will do wild EN-
the mess sergeant threw mp his hand
and laughed
These nurses will be left in charp
Of the hospital after the boys hay
gone They will wait and watch an
he ready to bind up broken bodies a
we'll as crushed hearts when the wa
tragedies come nearer our doors.
No More Typhoid.
Typhoid fever IS practically climlna'
ed from army camps according to III
division surgeon
"The days OF the Spani,h-Amcrica
war have passed. There is great cor
trast in many wayS between the hcalt
Of former American armies and preset
ones he said
The thing that lessons disease 20 pei
cent is the absence OF whisky" liruter
ant Colonel Mc'caU said with cmphi
sis rThc prohibition OF us use IS
most value 10 the man who has ncv,
learned TO drink Sixteen years in ret
ular army service have taught me Il
evils from intnxcan,S, and the .goyerl
mcnt made one OF its wiset MOVES
| passing the law against their use.
not only leSens disease but make, few,
| trials and fewer lniractionS oi disc
plinc in every way
l. The division general was warm
II his nratSe OF the rtty nf Fort Worth