Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-17
Modifying MEDICAL ARMY TO
LOOK AFTER WOUNDED SOLDIERS

fever, resulting in many deaths. Last
summer. when I46, 000--aImost twice
az manyAtroo2s were mcbilized for
service along the Mexican border, only
fourteen cases Of typhoid fever devel.
oped. The circumstances. In a general
way. we're eimilar Men were taken
from a temperate climate TO warmre
climate and were assembled In large
camps.
The remarkable decrease in the
number OF cases Of typhoid fever was
due TO nothing more nor less than the
adoption OF proper methods OF santa.
ton The medical CORPS Of the army
saw the mistakes Of the Sranfsh-Amer.
lean War and profited by them. II Is
for the further development OF such
improved methods that the medical
section now is striving. .<
Lessons from European War
In this connection object lessons are
being derived daily from the war in
Europe. Hundreds of reports are be-
ing received rom medical officers,
mostly Americans, VINO are at the bat.
tie fronts and in hospitals, as mem
beers, OF the American ambulance corps
and with various Red Cross units
These refer to the new ways Of band
ling the III and wounded, the treat
ment of wounds on the battle fields
and Ia hospitals. All OF these sugges-
tions are being tabulated for use in
the future. Ort or them the com
mittee hopes 70 develop a thoroughly
upto-iate system for the United
States.
For example, one OF the suggestions,
which Is regarded as highly practical
is that for conveying wounded soldiers
back from the battle lines to far dis
fant hospitals without removing them
from the stretchers on which they
first are placed. This is accomplished
by an interchange of stretchers, a very
simple method which never had been
put in operation before. In this way
the strength of the patient, an i'm.
portant factor for the assistance of his
recovery, is conserved.
When the soldier is placed on a
stretcher at the battle line he is car
ried TO waiting ambulance. The am
bulancs, In turn, receiving the patient,
does not place him on one OF its own
but gives a stretcher to
the men who have carried the man. II
the ambulance drives to. hospital
train, which. is the general custom
where the railroad lines are intact al.
most to the trenches, the train gives
the ambulance ,stretcher, accepting
at the same time the. man and the
stretcher4on; which he Is being carried,
This systemg works throughout the sys-
TEN Of transportation, so that Brit.
ish soldier arriving in London. perhaps
on the same day he Is wounded.
arrives on the same .stretcher that was
at the battle front.
! II also Is the aim Of the commission
10 work out q stytem Of modern hos
pltal trains, carrying wounded soldiers
as far from 1ine pattle front as pos
sible, out OF the way OF the operations
and to a place where his recovery Is
most likely. Delicate operations con-
not always be conducted on these
trains, but IL is possible to do certain
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