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FIRST HOSPITAL FOR US.
SOLDIERS IN ENGLAND
Occupies Mossley House in Liver
poolMaj. Vile, q. S. A., in
Charge-Personnel of Staff.
of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
LIVERPOOL. February 20.-The first
hospital for American soldiers in Great
Britain has just been opened in Liver
pool. All other hospitals thus far
opened in the British Isles have been
for American officers. The Liverpool
hospital is known as American Red
Cross Military Hospital, No. 4, and is
situated in the Mqesley Hall district.
the most fashionable residential section
about three miles from the downtown
business part of the city. Already many
American soldiers occupy its cheerful
wards and many others in the conva-
lescent stage, clad in hospital pale blue
are walking about the spacious grounds
The hospital proper occupies Mossley
House, the former home of DR.. Edmund
knowles Muspratt, a noted authority on
chemistry and one of LiverpooPs lead
ing citizens, who, when he heard that
the Americans wanted it gladly turned
1T over to them. It,occupies the highest
elevation in the city. A typical old
gothic style English town house. it
stands in the center of seven acres of
beautiful grounds. the flower gardens
of which are rapidly being converted
into plots for raising vegetables. An
American flag flying from the tall staff
in front of the grounds can be seen a
great distance, and assists visitors to
find the place.
The head of the hospital is Maj. lido ].
Vile, Medical Officers Reserve Corps,
U. S. A, who is a member of the faculty
of the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor. Maj. Vile came here last Novem-
Der and has worked untiringly to out
Mt the institution. In this he has been
assisted by Joseph r. Morris of Chicago,
representing the American Red Cross.
The majors staff consists of five Off
cers-three captains and two lieuten-
ants. The personnel of the place in
cludes ten American Red Cross nurses.
twelve sergeants and twenty privates.
Miss Marion Weller. a graduate of the
New York Hospital. is chief nurse.
Equipped on American Plan.
Maj. Vile is proud of the fact that
thirty-four days after Mossley House
American hospital ready for it's first pa
tients. Today it has $50 beds with room
for expansion to S26 beds. The institu-
tion is equipped throughout Oh the
American plan. This especially is true
of the hot-water heating plant and of
the plumbing and electrical installa-
tions. all of which work was facilitated
largely through the efforts of the Brit
ish Royal Engineers, who helped draw
up the plans and put them into execu-
tlON IN these DAYS Oh lduof Silof td6S-
The hospital now has ten wards for
soldiers, two small officers wards and
an operating room. besides the admins
trative offices. 1t boasts two ambu-
lances of the latest type. one given by
Richard Pearce, an American resident
in Liverpool, and the second by an
anonymous donor.
About 200 yards from the hospital are
building two isolation wards. each de-
signed to accommodate 100 contagious
disease patients. These are one-story
structures of brick and concrete. Each
will have four ten-bed wards with two
small wards in the center for officers. A
feature will be discharge rooms. where
outgoing patients can don their new
garments.