Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-19
HOSPITAL FOR sAMMIES.
First Regular Infirmary for Enlist
ed Men In England.

Correspondence Associated Press)
Liverpool. Feb. 20.-The first
hospital for American soldiers in
Great Britain has just been opened
in Liverpool All other hospitals
thus far opened in the British Isles
have been for American officers.
The Liverpool hospital is known as
American Red Cross military hospi-
tai No. and is situated in the Moss
ley Hill district, the most fashion
able residential section about three
miles from the downtown business
part Of the city. Already many Am
erican soldiers occupy its cheerful
wards and many others in the con-
valescent stage, clad in hospital pale
blue, are walking about the spacious
grounds.
The hospital proper occupies
Mossley House, the former home Of
Dr. Edmund Knowles Muspratt, a
noted authority on chemistry and
one Of Liverpool's leading citizens,
who when he heard that the Amer
leans wanted it gladly turned it ov-
err to them. 1t occupies the highest
elevation in the city. A typical old
gothic style English town house, it
stands in the center of seven acres
of beautiful grounds, the flower
gardens of which are rapidly being
converted into plots for raising veg
eta bles. An American flag, flying
from the tall staff in front of the
grounds can be seen a great dis
lance, and assists visitors to find
the place.
The head of the hospital is Major
lido j. Vile, medical officers re-
serve corps, United States army,
who is a member of the faculty OF
the University of Michigan of Ann
Arbor. Major Vile came here last
November and has worked untiring-
ly to outfit the institution In this he
has been assisted by Joseph Morris
of Chicago, representing the Ameri-
can Red Cross. The majors staff
consists of fvie officers, three cap
tains and two lieutenants. The per-
sonnet of the place includes ten Am.
erican Red Cross nurses, twelve ser
geants and twenty privates. Miss
Marion Weller. a graduate of the
New York hospital, is chief nurse.
Major Vile is proud of the fact
that thirty-four days after Mossley
House was taken over it was FULLY
equipped as an American hospital
ready for its first patients. Today il
has $50 beds with room for expan.
sion to S26 beds. The institution is
equipped throughout on the Ameri
can plan. This especially is true OF
the hot water heating plant and OF
the plumbing and electrical installa
tons, all of which work was facili
tated largely through the efforts o.
the British Royal Engineers who
helped draw up the plans and put
them into execution in these days Of
labor shortage.
The hospital now has ten ward.
for soldiers, two small officers
wards and an operating room, be-
sides the administrative offices. Il
boasts two ambulances of the lates
type. one given by Richard Pearce
an American resident in Liverpool
and the second by an anymous don
or.
About 200 yards from the hospita
are building are two isolation wards
each designed to accommodate 100
contagious disease patients. These
are one-story structures Of brick
and concrete. Each will have fon1
ten bed wards with two small ward.
in the center for officers A feature
! will be discharge rooms where out
going patients can don their new
garments.