Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-28
'WESTHAMPT0N TO. RECEIVE
many OVERSEAS PATIENTS
approximately 200 Wounded Sol
a dicrS Coming To Hospital in
Next Few Days.
OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED
Number OF Nurses Increased to Sin
ty-Total OF Enlisted Personnel
Now BIO Mcn-Twcnty-Fiv Ont
s| GERS Assigned to Institution.

~United states General Hospital .
& srw sthampton Will be taxed TO ca
pacity within few days by the arriva
There OF approximately 700 paiien;'
from overseas. With a few exceptions
these will be the first men 10 be SEN
to this hospital from overseas. NJ thu
present time there are about 300 pa
tents now being treated. and the ne"
contingent Will fill practically every
bed. the hospital being designed iron
the first TO accommodate Loco wounded
soldiers.
one OF the officers in command al
tito hospital stated last night that il
could not be said positively when the
men would arrive hut that their com
ing had been announced from official
sources and tina; every preparation
in the best possible shape when they
The number OF nurses on duty at
the hospital has been increased to
sixty. and more enlisted men in the
medical department have been sent TO
perform the many extra duties when
will result from the arrival Of so many
additional patients This brings the
total OF the enlisted personnel up 20
325 men. There are twenty-five oiii
GERS at the hospital.
from the authojties of Greater Rich
.,nond College the grounds and build
ings OF Richmond and Wcsthamrton
Colleges. embracing PSI acres and eight
rery substantial buildings, the most OF
them built within five years. The col
lcEes were a. the new location fou.
years and then moved back TO Rich :
mond in order to give the government
the use OF the specially fine equip
ment and grounds.
About July work started at West
hampton TO convert the college build
inCs into structures suitable for hos
pital purposes. The extensive college
hs and O desks to ,aRsn 2o 1n
former classroomS TO make as much
space as could hc secured The only
new building .! any Importance erected
was the convalcScent house. built hy
the Red Cross as recreation center
for the men recupcrating from their
mounds or diseases Rest and reading
rooms have been provided and quar-
Ters especially sci aside where the
mon may meet friends and relatives
calling on them. The alumne Of West
reading room also. This has been in
constant use since L was started and
will certainly prove Of greater value
than ever with the influx OF the zoo I'D =
ditional patients
MAY BIZ Ql.tIt'TERED
NORTH OIL. THE LAKE,
Up to the present time the patients
have been cared for i'll the buildings
formerly occupied by Wcsthampton
college. on the south side OF the lake.
,on about Sgynaily divides the COT
have been used AS barracks for the en-
listed personnel. Under this arrange
ment thero mas been plenty OF room
on the north side OF the lake and for
This reason II is thought that the
larger part OF the men soon to arrive
Will be Iuart"rrd there. They will bc
IN the twu large buildings which
served As dormltorieS for the students
of Richmond College
Although no statement was made to
that effect. u seems certain that Nh 10
men who VIII come To WeSthamplOu
VII! be sent from Ncwnori News 10
lSichmonl Owe. the main line of Tho
chesapeake and ONO Railroad and
ihencc To the heart or the hospital
.Tounds over spur track which runs
te tnH po"crhouSc there This Iir,c,
ran communication with Newport
News WAS orc of tho things tina; caused
the government authorities "a look on
the site with such favor when they
were casting about in this vicinity las
spring for a location for the hosnitnl
he arrival of the new mc, nuts an
cnd 70 any fear that the hosiital ai
WeSthampton might never h. ts,n an
account of the signing OF The nrr,is
tice carrier than was generally nxncrI
CD, however, II no overseas patients
had come the fine work Of the hos
pital In treating soldiers from tn. ;r,In-
ing detachment at the fair grounds
ana the Studepts Army Traininr Cnrns
unit at RicThmo 'rollcga during iha
recent sertous~intiucnza epidemic wouif1
nave more than Nindicaici thr rcnuta
tion of the hoSnital 80 ''Put"-