Arizona republican., 1917-09-29

the reconstruction hospitals to be es- tablished in the United States and for which purpose Fort Whipple barracks in this state has been suggested to the government by Governor Thomas F. Campbell. Several sites already have been selected for these hospitals by Major General William c. Gorgas, sur geon general of the army, who has made the following statement regard ing the work:
 The whole conception of govern mental and national responsibility for caring for the wounded has undergone radical change during the months of study given the subject by experts serving with the medical officers re- serve corps and others consulting with them Instead of the old idea that re- spohsibility ended with the return of the soldier to private life with his wounds healed and such pension as he might be given, it is now considered that it is the duty of the government to equip and re-educate the wounded man, after healing his wounds, and to return him to civil life ready to be useful to himself and his country.
 ITO carry out this idea plans are well under way for building recon
 
 which already have been chosen. but not finally approved Each will be built as a 500-bed hospital, but with provision for enlargement to 900 beds if needed
 These hospitals will not be the last step in the return of the wounded sol- diers to civil life. When the soldiers are able to take up industrial train- ing, further provision will be ready. The injured man may be re-trained to l his previous occupation to conform with his handicapped condition or re- trained to for new industry compat- . ible with that condition. Additional | education will be given those fitted for it, and men may in some cases be turned to more valuable work than that from which they were called to war. Workshops will be provided at the hospitals. but arrangements will also be made with outside industries whereby more elaborate methods of 1 training may be carried on. An em- ployment bureau will be established i to place men so trained in different l parts of the United States
 l Arrangements have been made by l the departments of military orthope- ] dies (the prevention of deformity) tc care TOT soldiers, so far as OrthOpedics is concerned. continuously, until the, are returned either to active service l or civil life. Orthopedic surgeons vii 1 be attached to the medical force neal the firing line and to the different hos pitals back to the base orthopedic hos. pital which will be established within 1 100 miles of the firing line. In thi. | hospital in addition to orthopediC surgical care, there will be equipment | for surgical reconstruction work ant
 curative workshops in which men vii , acouire ability to use injured member. ! while doing work interesting and use. ful in itself. This method has sup. planted the old and tiresome one O prescribing set of motions for a mar to go through, with no purpose thaI to re-acquire use of his injured part.
 Tt is not the intention that mel able to go back to the firing line shal be returned to this country unless thei l convalescence will extend over perio, ] of considerable number of months Soldiers unable to return to duty vii
 be sent to the reconstruction hospital 1 in the United States"