French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-09-20
SITES ARE CHOSEN FOR
GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS
In Nineteen Cities Wounded United
States Soldiers VIII be Rehabilitat-
ed for Private Lffe-WOrk for the
Surgeons.

Washington, Sept. 16.-Sites have
been chosen tentatively in 10 cities
for the great reconstruction hospitals
in which the United States will begir
! the work of rehabilitating for private
life its soldiers who return wo<1ldad
from the front in Europe. The cities,
selected as the largest centers of por
ulation, were announced tonight Dy
Major General Gorgus, surgeon-geners.:
of the army. as follows:
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Bal
timore, Washington, Buffalo. Cinciu.
natl, Chicago, st. Paul, Seattle, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, kali
sas City, ST. Louis, Memphis, Rich
mond, Atlanta and New Orleans.
The hospitals at Boston, New, York
Washington and Chicago probably vii:
be the first built. They will have 800
beds, with provision for doubling their
capacity If necessary.
'"The whole conception of gover.:-
mental and national responsibility for
caring for the wounded" said General
Gorgas in making the announcement,
"has undergone radical change durlcg
the months of study given the subJsaa
by experts serving with the medical
officer" reserve corps and others COR
sulting with them. Instead of tn ola
idea that responsibility ended with the
return of the soldier to private lie
with his wounds healed and such pen
sion as ne might be given it is now
considered that It is the duty of tie
government to equip and re-educate the
wounded man after healing his Wounds
and to return him to civil life ready to
be as useful to himself and his coun
try as possible.
''These hospitals will not be the last
step in the return of the wounded SOL
diers4to civil life. When the soldiers
are able to take, up industrial training
further provision will be ready. The
injured man may be Eetrained to his
previous occupation to conform with
his Handicapped condition or retrained
for a new industry compatible with
that condition Additional education
will be provided for those fitted for it
and men may in some cases be return
ed to more valuable work than that
from which they were called wal.
Workshops will be provided at the hos
pitals, but arrangements will also he
made in outside industries whereby
moreelaborate methods of training
may be carried on. An employment
bureau will be established to place men
so trained in different parts Of the UNI
tates.!
"Orthopedfc prevention of deforml
ty) surgeons will be attached to tho
medical forces near the firing line and
to the different hospitals back of the
base orthopedic hospital which will be
established within 100 miles Of the fir
ing line In this hospital, in addition
to orthopedics' surgical care, there will
be equipment for surgical reeonstruc-
ton and curative workshops in which
men will acquire ability to use injured
members while doing work interesting
and useful in ITSELF"
I'm addition to the American orthc
pedic surgeons now working abroad
under Colonel Jones. of England, otn-
ers will soon go overseas. Experienc
ed surgeons and large number OF
younger surgeons who will work under
competent directors. will go abroad fof
this work, all to be under the direction
of Major Goldthwait, director of mill
tary orthopedics for the expeditionary
forces. These orthopedic surgeons
will work in England among the Brit
ish forces and when needed will De
transferred to France to work amon2
American soldiers.
''It is not the intention that men
able to go back to the firing line shall
be returned to this country unless !
their convaIescence will extend over
period of a considerable number OF
months. Soldiers unable to return to
duty will be sent to the reconstruction
hospitals in the United States.