Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-17
richmond CHOSEN
| FOR ARMY HOSPITAL
One of Nineteen American Cities
Where Crippled Soldiers
Will Be Remade.
PLAN GREAT INSTITUTION
This City Picked Because 1t Is
Center of Population in
Southern States.
PLAN GREAT INSTITUTION

selected by the War Department in
which will be located great recon :
structlon" hospital. where the United
States will begin the work of re-
ha bilitating for private life it's SOL
dters who return wounded from the
battle fields of Europe. Announcement
OF the locations for these hospitals
was made last night In Washington by
Major General GorGas. surgeon general
of the army
While IL was not so definitely stated
In the dispatch from Washing ton. 1t
IL understood that the hospital here
Will be under the direction OF the
United States Public Health Service.
While this service Is under the direc-
tion of the Treasury Department with
Surgeon-General Rupert Blue at it's
head. In time OF national emcrg ency
Il can be taken over by either the
War or Navy Department.
The Richmond station OF the public
health service is In charge of Dr.
William Russell Jones. and is main
tained at the Retreat for the Sick.
Large public health service stations
arc located in each OF the nineteen
cities selected as locations for the RE-
construction" hospitals Dr.. Jones has
received no Instructions relating to the
details for the establishment Of the
big hospital In this city.
GOVERSMENT HAS REPORTS
on RICHMOND HOSPITALS
However. II Is known that the GOV
jernment Is In possession of Information
EconcerninG the udnptIbillty of Rich
.ncnd hospitals for wartime use.
Tho Retreat for the Sick now has
plans made for the erection OF a mod
,ern hospital at Grove Aven lie and Null
berry STREETS, where It recently ac-
i9u!rcd site for this purpose. should
'hiH institution be inadequate to meet
Ii" demands made up,n II, att.ntiop
~ tahed to the tact that the Memo
lr'ri Hospital is now engaged In put
,iHg up modern buildings as units In
IL big hospital system. which will make
~ on" OF the finest organizations Of
Its Kind in the South. Thus, the IA
jHili'ios OF the Retreat could easily aud
,Gmlrkiy he augmented.
The wo:k OF making over men Grip
Ir!ed in the service Of their nation Will.
jb". II is understood. left entirety in
i,he ri'.ds Of he surgeons who rcinain
Iat home. rm', tu.l d..ails as 10 the.
latopr Of tn. undertaking viii be forth.
ico:nins in 4 short while.
Il IN" cities selected as locations for
the big hospitals are among the larges,
leenters OF population. and are as fol-
lows:
Eichmonc. Boston. New York, phila-
ideiphia Baltimore, Washington. Buff
falo, Cincinnati. Chicago. st. Paul
Seattle. san francisco. Los Angeles
Denver. Kansas city, ST. Louis, Mem
Hphis Atlanta and New Orleans
The hospitals at Boston, New York.
washington and Chicago. it is said
0fnr oDIbtV ,.jll NO
lwiil nave 500 beds. with provision for
tdoubs!ns the capacity il necessary.
fG0RGAS OUTLINES
PURPOSE Of GOVERNMENT
The whole conception Of govern
{inental and national responsibility for
fearing for the wounded" said General
fGorEas. in making the announcement
lat Washington. has undergone radical
lchange during the months of study
{givcn the subjects by experts serving
with the medical officers reserve CORDS,
land others consulting with them. In
tstead OF the old idea that responsible
ity ended with the return OF the SOL
idier to private life with his wounds
lhcaled and such pension as he might
lbc given, it is now considered that II
lis the duty Of the government to eouip
|
IihealinS his wounds and to return him
Ito civil life ready TO be as useful IN
himself and his country as possible
III These hospitals will not be tho last
3Istep in the return of the wounded SOL
{diers to civil life. When the soldiers
fare able to take up Industrial training
ID further provision will be ready. The
81 Injured man may be retained to his
previous occupation to conform with
This handicapped condition or retained
N for new Industry compatible with
I that condition. Additional education
dFwill be gi"en to those fitted for II.
and men may, In some cases. be re-
sEturned to moro valuable work than that
| u from which they ware called to war
I'M HWorkshopS Will be provided at the hos
fptals. but arrangement will also be
EA made with tho outside industries
|p whereby more elaborate methods of
Id training may be carried on An empIov-
ment bureau will he established TO
1Trlace men so trained In different mart,
L of the United States.
II WILL MAKE EVERY EFFORT
III TO PREVENT DEFORMITY
III '.Orthopedic surgeons will be at
Id tached to the medical force near tho
|,l firing line and to the different hos
|lB pitals back to the base orthopedic hos
IeV pital, which will be established within
|H 100 miles of the firing line. In this
hospital, in addition to orthopedic sur.
gical care there will be equipment for
I surgical reconstruction work and
curative workshops in which mon
will acquire ability to use injured
members while doing work interesting
III and useful In itself.
"In addition to the American ortho-
pedic surgeons now working abroad
under Colonel Jones, of England,
CONTINUED on Second PaEeO