Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-09
WAR DEPARTMENT coNrEM-
PLATES EXTENSIVE MEDICAL
AND SURGICAL WAR WORK.
RECONSTRUCTION BUREAU
HAS BEEN CREATED
General Hospitals and Curative Work.
shops to Spring Up All Over coun.
try-Soldiers From Home CampS A
Well A. Those Injured or Gassed
in Europe to BE Given Best Car.
lBy e. G. Dougherty.l

Washington, May Especial provi-
sion is now being made by the war
department to not only preserve the
health OF the American soldiers while
in training at Camp Dodge and other
camps, but to reconstruct and re-edu-
cate these who after becoming injured
or i'll in the battle field Of France are
returned to this country.
n The army medical corps has created
& new bureau of reconstruction, which
already has ten hospitals and curative
workshops going, to handle the task
of returning to civil life the brave
boys who have been shot, gassed or
made i'll thru contact with the enemy
abroad. The scheme of the medical
corps does not stop there. however, but
the general hospitals and curative
workshops are to spring up all over
the country, and as quickly as INJURY
or disease develops in the soldiers,
either at home or abroad, arrange
ments are to oe made to transfer these
ailing soldiers to the reconstruction
hospitals and make them anew or as
near their former faculties as medical
science will permit.
To prevent or to hold to the mini
mum these impaired men Of the ma
ton. the army medical corps also is
addressing it's efforts to improving the
sanitation aad healthfulness of the
various camps. Today Lieut. Col.
Robert NJ. Thornburgh. Of the medical
corps, an expert sanitarian, was as
signed to visit Camp Dodge for the
purpose Of comforting with the division
surgeon there in regard to medical adj
ministration, matter Of sanitation and
general medical activity at the camps.
Iikewisay Contract Surgeon William G
MacCallum, United States army, was
ordered to Camp Dodge 10 make
thorough investigation OF the cause OF
pneumonia among the troops there.
and his instructions are to commune
cate direct with Surgeon General Cor
gas. of the army medical corps as
quickly as his investigation is COM
pleted.
Medical Staff Enlarged.
Almost daily additional medical Of
ficers are assigned to the hospitals at
Camp Dodge and Fort Des Moines and
so great is the need for specialists IA
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been compelled to extend their lists to
women doctors. the first to be APP
pointed being DR.. Dora L. Horn. Of
Bellevue, o., who upon completion of a
special course at the Mayo Brothers
clinic at Rochester, Mimi. will be iE
full charge Of the work Of administer
ing anaesthetics to patients at the
Fort Des Moines hospital. DR.. Horn is
wisdom Of the medical corps is upheld
by her work, more women doctors will
be called into the service for the pur-
pose of applying the ether or other
allaying drug necessary where opera
lions are made.
Not only are capable medical STATS
being assembled at all camps, but eff
forts are being made by the public
health service to hold to the minimum
all disease among troops. In order
that there may be no doubt of the eff
fectiveness of the serums and vaccnes
most in use in the military forces, and
in civil life, too, Surgeon General
Blue is now having made at the ny
gienic laboratory here tests of samples
from every lot of these products made
BY American manufacturers. The seri-
BUSINESS and prevalence of pneumonia
and meningitis makes it of the great
est importance that the reliability of
any individual dose of the serum be
guaranteed. AS rapidly as possible,
therefore, the public health service has
been determining upon standards for
the different serums and vaccines
used in preventing disease and where
sufficient accurate standards have
been found it has vigorously held the
manufacturers up to them. The tests
cover serums and vaccires used in
pneumonia, meningitis. smallpox, ty-
phod fever, 1iphtheria and tetanus. In
the cases of the serums used in the
six diseases mentioned, it means that
the products, as made. have been
found capable of preventing the dis
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