New-York tribune., 1918-12-04
Wounded Troops
To BE Treated at
Points Near Homes
War Department Plans TO
Send Mem to Hospitals
Close TO Their Relatives
After Return 10 4. ..

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-Plans un-
der which all wounded men returning
from France will go to the hospitals
within 800 miles of the homes of their
nearest relatives were announced to-
day by the War Department.
Base hospitals at training camps
have been turned over to the Surgeon
General, providing seventy-fvc hos
pitfalls with facilities to care for 104,-
22l men. Fifty thousand men are eX-
pcctcd to be sent to these institutions
within the next four months.
Use of the training camp facllltlcs
will make it possible to return to their
owners imediatcly many properties
which were to have been converted
1ntO general "N.~
following in the vicinity ui 4>er .oaa..
Bybcrry Farms, Philadelphis; Sea
View Hospital New York; North
Brother Island Hospital, New York;
Catholic Orphan Society, New York.
The twenty-five hospitals to be en-
poyed do not include those at the ports
Of dobarkation, New York and Newport
News. There the wounded will be re-
ccivcd on their arrival from France in
fifteen institutions now ready for them.
with bed capacity OF 22,06S. From
the ports the men will be taken on
specially fitted trains to one of sixteen
localized hospital groups, whore assign
ments will be made in such way that
each of the wounded men will go back
to the region from which he entered
the service. The groups follow:
No. General hospitals at Boston, New
Haven, East Norfolk, Mass. Pattsburg Bar
racks and the base hospital at Camp Devens.
No. General hospitals at Williams
bridge. NJ Y, aud East View N. Y and
base hospital at Camp linton.
No. 3. General hospitals at Coonia, N. +.
Fort Porter. Fort Ontario, Otisvile, n. Y.
Lakewood n. j. : Cape MAY. N. j.; Dams
vile. N. Y; Madison Barracks and base hos
pitaL Camp Dix
Nd. Rowland Park, Md. Carslisle. Jenn..
and Walter Reed Hospital. Washington, and
base hospital, Camp Mead.
No ) General hospitals at Markleton.
Penn. Richmond, Va. Pittsburgh, and
Camp Lee. Va.
No. General hospitals at Bltmore
Waynesvile. Azalea and Hot Springs, n. c..
and hase hospitals at Camps Greene, Sewer
Wadsworth and jackson. S. c.
No. General hospitals at Forts Nc Pher-
son and Oglethrope, Ga, and base hospitals
at Camps Gordon, Hancock, Wheeler, McClel-
land and Sheridan.
No. 8 Base hospital, Camp sherman, Ohio
No. 9-Genera hospitals at Fort Benamf
Harrison and West Baden, Ind, and bas'
hospital. Camp Taylor.
No. General hospital, Detroit, and base
hospital, Camp Custer.
Nc. il Cooper -Monatha Hotel. Chicago
general hospital, Fort Sheridan, and bas'
hospital, Camp Grant.
No. 12-Genernl hospitals. Hot Springs ant
Fort Logan II. Roots. Ark, and base hospi
tails. Camp Pike, Beauregard and Shelby.
No. 13-General hospitals, Forts De
Moines and Smelling. and base hospital
Camp Dodge.
No. 142General hospitals. Fort Bayard
N. NJ. Whippe Barracks, Arz.; Denve
and base hospitals, Camp Cody and For
Riley
No. 15-General hospital, Corpus Christi
Tex, ard base hospitals, CAMPS Logan, Ira
Wis. McArthur and Bowie. and at Forts San
Houston, Sill and Bliss.
No. 16-General hospitals, Fort Douglas
Utah. and Preside, San Francisco, and bas
hospitals Camps Kearney, Fremont ant
Lewis.