The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-06
II. S. HOSPITAL CASES
ARE WELL TREATED
Nothing Is Too Good for Soldiers Sent
to the Hospitals for Treatment,
According to Major W. A.
Shields.

Chicago, March 5.Nothing is too good
for United States soldiers sent to army
hospitals for treatment, according to Ma
jor w A. Shields in charge Of the ar
my's central department medical sup.
ply depot here, who has just given to
The Associated Press detailed account
of the methods employed in safeguard
ing the health of the men in khaki.
Major Shields said that medical of
ficers at the various army hospitals have
only to ask for what they want for
the treatment of the men and it goes to
them.
AN officer at Fort Sheridan recently
asked for special type of operating
table, said Major Shields. at was not
a standard table and is used only rare
lily. Although it had TO be made to or
der and cost considerably more than the
ordinary table, it was rushed at once to
the hospital"
Many army surgeons, he stated, ask
/ for certain uncommon instruments, some
times for use in one particular case only,
yet the medical supply officers spare no
efforts to obtain them.
| Carrying out the departmental policy
loi bHplpuGHutSs III INC treatment vi tie
men, only the most sanitary most mod
ern and most efficient equipment is sent
out This rule applies to everything,
| from the furniture used in the institu-
tions to the dishes from which the pa
tients eat. Major Shields said that all
hospitals are supplied with high grade
silver plated knives, forks and spoons,
fine quality linens, the best food, sleep
ing quarters as pleasant and convenient
as money can provide. and that every
thing else is on the same high plane.
Although the depot has TO furnish no
supplies for wounded men as yet, the
hospitals of the central department have
received more than 100000 feet of
cloth bandages--enough to extend from
New York to the Texas coast. When
the American forces are actually en-
gagged in trench warfare in any consider
able numbers, and wounded men begin
to pour into American hospitals, Major
Shields said, it is probable that the med
zeal supply depot will be overtaxed to
supply needed bandages. Because of this
fact officials are investigating paper
bandages which are said to be equally
as serviceable as the kind now in gen
eral use. Paper bandages have been
in use in Germany for some time almost
exclusively owing to the inability of that |
country to get material for cloth ban
dages
Major Shields expressed confidence that !
the department viii not be embarrassed |
because of the scarcity of any needed |
drug or medicine used at army hospi- |
tails. German drugs have been duplicated |
by American medical investigators with |
the result that the department is ade- |
quately equipped to care for its men,
either wounded or i'll.
Practically no whiskey is used i'm army |
hospitals, Major Shields said. Its use. he
declared, is being discouraged because
the reaction il causes makes its use as
a stimulant undesirable. according to
the medical officer. lie said. however.
that a small quantity of whiskey Is
carried at the depot and will he supplied
should any medical officer call for il. In /
this connection Major Shields spoke. of
the Vera Cruz expedition in 1914 when
he acted as medical supply officer for
General Funston.
During the month that We were
there" he said, Il issued just one quart
IF whiskey." H
On the other hand alcohol is one OF
he most widely used medical supplies
sept at the depot. u i shipped 10 can
Comment camps in ~ gallon drums and
: used in great quantities for baths
md in rubbing.
Electricity is being made to do it,
hare in the care Of the soldiers. Many
MODERN hospitals appliances are operated
w electricity in addition to the part il
; PLAYING in the treatment Of tubcrcu-
osis May photographs Of lungs 81
oldiers suspected 81 being tulerrrlar are
aiken at the rate Of fifty day at each
4 the cantonmem1 hospitals By the
lse of these lung pictures the treat
nsnt of Tuberculosis has been greatly
imBlifed. Fifty Thousand May pilates !.