Evening star., 1918-04-07

stituttonI IOf similar sl1e Ano Ako In
portance in America, but the French
are splendid sanitationists and this
hospital is among their best. Furtner-
more, the surgeons who in 1t nave tne
care Of your dear ones are not OF tneir
Of 'i Pennsyivania. @ from Harvard, from
Chicago University. from Johns HOP
kins. It may be that these megntncent
experts will regret some OF the nnesse
Of facilities which they had IN tne,t at
one essential. and daily are perfecting
their equipment.
30 there you are. dear mother. Your
ailing boy in France has at his dispo,,
talent which the millions OF the richest
man in the United States scarcely could
gather at the bedside of an atlinE son.
though he were heir to all his millions
and his hopes.
The nurses working expertly within
tho hospital have come to do this
splendid duty from all the quarters OF
the American compass. and when say
"expertiy' 1 mean exactly that. oh.
mother, sister, sweetheart Of the Amer
lean boy in France. Not in the hos
pitfalls OF your home town could you
md nurses SO Invariably competent.
Herr are no probationers undergoing
training and needing watchfu1 eyes OF
protect their charges from mistakes.
Every deft, accomplished nurse on duty
here is a mature woman. full graduate
from one Of the great home institutions.
Indeed, the enthusiastic amateur is
barred at present and probably will be
till the end Of the war. Discourage
her from all thought of coming. un-
trained, to do nursing work.
The perfectly trained nurses look after
7S4 beds in the particular hospital which
cais' some Of them ''surgicals." more OF
them 'medicals'' than ''surgfcals." just
now, because the only ''surEicals" are
those made by such usually petty acct-
dents Of modern life as fill our hospitals
outside the war zone as well as here with
in its temporary boundaries.
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Among the occupants of all these
beds the death rate is kept lower than
1t would be in a New York, Chicago,
San Francisco. Detroit, Boston. Atlanta
or any other hospital in an American
home town. In part, this undoubtedly
is because all the patients are strong
youngsters the pick of young Amert.
can manhood, the treasures you are
right in being proud of: but quite as
surely it is due in part to the extraordf-
narily good care which they receive.
Most of these sick men suffer from
such seasonal and climatic troubles as
you and they are quite familiar with
at home, those many ailments which
we classify in a group under the gen.
eral name of colds"
In the majority Of cases these quick
ly are overcome, and they grow serious
less frequently than they would al
home. for they are far more closely
watched.
Such sickness almost may be consid-
cred part Of the hardening process
necessary to the making of good sol
diers. Often our men leave hospital
far better and far stronger, far "husk-
ier" in soldiers parlance, than ever
they have been in all their lives before
This is a wartime and a war zone
hospital. dear woman, back at home,
and that sounds rather dreadful,
doesn't 1t? The words make you think
make you think Of special daAGers. But
really there are no discomforts here
which the sick man would not know
in tho best hospital back at home; here
he knows no deprfvations saws those
which science has decreed are for his
good The hospital Of which I.Hrtte
like all the others in our rapidly ex.
tending service, is splendidly outfitted
Some of its equipment is better thar
the best hospitals in the biggest OF oul
and represents exactly the last WORD
in scientific progresaL After-the Span.
ish war. dear lady. myself was taker
to St. Luke's. New York. then and now
one Of the worlds best hospitals. an6
there underwent an X-ray Investigation
for a bullet which tho probes In Cubs
had been unable exactly to locate. But
the X-ray apparatus with which ir
New York city's best hospital thi.
search was made was mere toy, {
makeshift, q tentative and tremulou.
experiment, when compared with tha'
one which the experts in this war zone
hospital. somewhere in France. havs
ready to use upon your boy II hi
should by any chance of accident OF
war require it's work. And this Ameri-
can hospital. with all itB fne mechani.
cal equipment, is placed where II
promptly can care for your boy. actual.