The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-11-08
BASE HOSPITALS
ARE Big AFFAIRS
UNCLE SAM HAS COMPLETE
EQUIPMENT TO CARE FOR
SICK SOLDIERS.
COL0RED TROOPS in CAMP
NEW REGIMENTAL SONG PUTS
PEP IN SOLDIERS WRITES
GROVE WILLS. |,
Camp Dodge, Ia, Nov. 4, 1917.

Dear Bill
After my visit to the base hospitaI
today in company with Walter Brad
ley, looking over the artillery Sec
ton, and seeing the huge remount :
station (Which now is the largest in
this country off in the distance, we
woke up to the realization that as vet
We were not thoroughly acquainted
with Camp Dodge, which is destined
when completed to become second to
none in the United States, in equip
ment, general advantages an number
OF men to be quartered here.
There are two kinds of hospitals
in the army; field AMI base. The for
mer operate with regiments in the
field and care for everything that they
are equipped for, such as the miller
forms Of disease, wounds, and in
juries. The cases that would be i'm
possible for them to give the proper
attention are sent to the base hospi-
tai, located always back of the lines,
and where noises and all scenes of ac-
ton are removed.
The field hospitals have mule and
motor ambulances. Walter Bradley
is connected with the motor ambulance
of the 352d regiment field hospital. He
as well, as the other members of like
contingents are equipped with a
first-aid packet which is for their own
special use while in the field. Should
they come upon man III a lying
condition, they are cautioned, even
then not to use articles in their packet
for his benefit. You will gain by
this that their work is extremely
hazardous as they operate in the open
in the immediate scene of battle, and
are subject to as great or even more
risks than men in trenches. The a
Eaeac treaty, anrny other things,
provided that this branch of service
skculd not be feel upoG, hut the
German autocracy, as usual, gave
orders, some time past, to fire uDon
them, despite the nature of their
york which IN our rl;nC woGld call
'or the worst kind of a eoln:er u: t by
til" allied powers.
7i,c work Ct these men now is to
learn physical exercising drills and
ll'tet drills in squads Of four, attend
first-aid and every other sort of lee
tut, that pertains to their work. They
also assist in such work as innocula-
ton and vaccination of men. The
next three months schedule, Mr..
Bradley informs us, is stiff affair.
In every branch they are pushing the
work of smaking a soldier" to the
limit. sEf
We were amazed at the magnitude
of the base hospital. It faces to the
north with the administration in the
center, receiving ward on the right
and officers ward on the left. These
three sections = are connected with
long sunlit corridors. Back of the
administration building comes the eye,
ear, nose and throat building and fol-
lowing that the operating rooms and
lust before you arrive at a large
court is the labratory and X-ray
section. Lastly the mess and canteen
building. This makes one line down
the center.
The re:e wing ward to the right OF
tie administration tuilding is follow
ed by long string of ward buildings.
Back of officers ward to the left OF
the main building comes another ;ong
large sun porches.
me OF. ward building: all having
You now have a picture Of 3 lines
of buildings, the whole connected with
sunlit corridors, as I said before, some
of them two blocks long With en-
frances to wards and Offices, Is )
The wards when completed will
contain 1000 beds at least I and 4 az
present 400 patients are being cared
for. 'iYouscan 60 in ct an entrance
anywhere and make a very lengthy
trip out of it If you g. down every
corridor and hallway. The strpctufe
is heated by a large heating plant At
the southwest corner, made Of similaf.
material as all the buildings here, post
foundation, plain pine floors and sid-
ing, with thick sheeting of tar paper
between that and studding, plaster.
board on the interior. All buildings
ara covered with rubberized roofing
and are unpainted.
To the right of this three-lins
structure is the nurses quarters. We
won't stop long on that building. This