Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-10-13

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 responsibility ended with the re-
turn OF the soldier TO private life with
his wounds healed and such pension
as he might be given, IL is now con-
sidered that il is the duty of the gov
eminent TO equip and reeducate the
wounded man, after healing his
wounds, and to return him to civil life
ready to be as useful to himself and
his country as possible. 49,.
Reconstruction Hospital
To carry out this idea plans are well
under way for building "reconstruc-
ton hospitals" in large centers Of
population. sites have been chosen,
though not all finally approved, in the
following cities: Boston. New York,
Ia Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington,
. Buffalo, Cincinnati, Chicago, st, Paul,
Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
; Denver, Kansas City, st Louis, Mem
ephis, Richmond, Atlanta, and New
Orleans. Those of Boston, New York,
Washington, and Chicago will prob
a1yAbe constructed first. Each will be
built as a 500-bed hospital, but with
provision for enlargement to 1000
beds IL 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 training,
further provision will be ready. The
injured man may be retrained to his
previous occupation to conform Will
his handicapped condition or retrained
for new industry compatible with
that condition. Additional education
will be given to those fitted for it, and
men may in some cases be returned
to more valuable work than that from
which they were called to war Work.
shops will be provided at the hos
pitfalls, but arrangements will also be
made with outside industries whereby
more elaborate methods of training
may be carried on. An employment
bureau will be established to place
men so trained in different parts Of
the United States.
Men in Charge Of the Work
This whole matter comes under the
department of military orthopedic sur
gerry recently organized in the Medical
Department of the Army. The follow,
ing officers of the Medical Reserve
Corps are in charge OF the work: Maj
Elliot g. Bracket, Of Boston, director
Of the department of military ortho-
pedics to the Surgeon General; Mai
Joe T.. Goldthwait, of Boston, direc.
tor OF military orthopedics for the ex-
peditionary forces; Maj. David Silver,
OF Pittsburg, assistant director of mil.
itary orthopedics to the Surgeon Gen.
eral. The following, in conjunction
with the above staff, compose the
orthopedic council: DR.. Fred H. Albee,
of New York; DR.. G. Gwilym Davis, of
Philadelphia; DR.. Albert H. Freiberg,
of Cincinnati; DR.. Robert w. Loyett,
of Boston; and DR.. John L. Porter, of
Chicago.
,sss arrangements have been made BY
we department Of military orthopedics
Seo care for soldiers, SO far as orthope.
dies lthe prevention Of deformity) is
concerned, continuously until they are
returned either 10 active service or
civil life. Orthopedic surgeons will be
attached to the medical forces near
the firing line and to the different
hospitals back to the base orthopedic
hospital, which will be established
within 100 miles OF the firing line. In
this hospital, in addition to orthopedic
surgical care, there will be equipment
for surgical reconstruction work and
curative workshops" in which men
will acquire ability to use injured
members while doing work interesting
and useful in itself. This method
has supplanted the old and tiresome
one OF prescribing set of motions for
man to go through with no purpose
than to reacQuire use of his injured
part.
In addition to the American orthoDe.
dic surgeons now working abroad un
der Col. Jones, Of England, others will
soon so overseas. ES asrienced sur
!. geons, and q large number of younger
surgeons who viii wofs under CONNIE
tent directors, win 20 abroad fer this
work, all to be under the direction of
Maj Goldthwait. These orthopeoic
surgeons win work In ENGLAND amonr
tie British force and when needed
" ~-sN--1ANsiSa " 10 WCIK
among American soldiers.
1t is not the intention that men able
to go back tn tse firing limo SHAH 10
returned to his ceuntr, anIess their
convalescence will extend oyar a
period Of a considerable number Of
months. Soldiers unable to return IN
duty will be sent to the reconstruction
hospitals In the United States,
Instructors and examiners for ALI the
camps are also being furnished bv the
Hepf ftment OF military yorthopedic sur.
HSr9 A number Of older and more ey.
tefIenced surgeons will act as instrpc.
Itors and supervisors for each OF the
groups into which the camp will he
divided; a number of orthopedic sur.
geons viii be detailed as attending
surgeons at each camp to act as ex.
aminers and as consultants to the
camps other surgeons: directions ara
being provided for instruction of medi.
cal officers in the military orthopedic.
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