The sun., 1918-12-04
WOUNDED SOLDIERS
TO BE NEAR FRIENDS
Men Returning From France
Will BE Distributed All
Over Country.
IS HOSPITALS PROVIDED
$4,000 Expected Within Next
Four Months-ReceptiOn
Station Here.
IS HOSPITALS PROVIDED

WARRINGTON. Dec. 3-Plans under
which all wounded men returning
from France will go to hospitals
within 300 miles of the homes OF their
nearest relatives were announced to-
day by the War Department. To this
end base hospitals ut training camps
have been turned over to the Surgeon
General, providing seventy-five hos
pitfalls with facilities to care for 104.-
2Sl men. Fifty thousand men arc
expected to he sent to these institu-
tions within the next four months.
Properties TO Re Returned.
Use of tho training camp facilities
viii make 1t possible to return to their
owners Immediately the following
properties, which were to have been
converted into general hospitals:
New Field Museum, Chicago; Ex-
position Park, Rochester. n. Y; State
School for the Deaf. Columbus, Ohio y;
hickman Bros. Building, Cleveland,
Ohio; Deutsches Turnverein, Cleve-
land, Ohio: High School, Cincinnati,
Ohio. City Sanitarium. st. Louis, Mo. ::
Ford Building. Milwaukee. Wis.
-.
Badger State Sales Company, Mil
Waukee: Woodstock apartment. Mil
waukee; State School for the Blind.
Nashville. Tenn: Sophie Newcomb
School and Tulane University build
ings. New Orleans; Byberry Farms.
Phi!adelphia; Elks Hospital, New Or
leans; Sea View Hospital, New York :;
Ford Building. Des Moines; st. Cath
crimes Home, Des Moines; North
Brother Island Hospital, New York :;
catholic Orphan Society, New York.
Reception Hospitals Here.
The seventy-fve hospitals TO be en-
ployed do not include those at the
ports Of debarkation, New York and
Newport News. There the wounded
VIII be received on their arrival from
France in fifteen institutions now
ready FOR them with a bed CAPACITY NJ
22o5s. From the ports the men will
be taken on specially fitted trains to
one OF sixteen localized hospital
groups. where assignments will he
made in such a way that each of the
wounded men will go back to the
region from which he entered the ser
vice.
The groups follow:
NO l-'ieneral hospitals at Boston.
New Ha' en-. East Norfolk. Mass :
tiat,sburg Barracks and the base hos
pitai at Camp Devens.
No. -Williamsbridge y =. E,as,
View. y. Y, and base hospital. Camp
Upton. amp
No, .8-Colonia. y. ] For, Porter.
Fort Ontario. O,isville, n. Y: Lake
wood, y. j.; Cape May. ". j.: Dams
vile. \. Y. Madison Barracks and base
hospital. Camp Dix.
No. Fort McHcnry. Nd Rowland
Park. Md; Carlisle, Pa Walter Reed
Hospital, Washington. Il. c., and base
hospital. Camp Meade
No D Markleton. Pa: Richmond.
Va, Pittsburg. Pa, and Camp Lee, Va
No. 6--Biltmore. Waynesyille. Azalea
and Hot spr. gs, y. c. and base hos
pitfalls Mt Camps Greene. Sewer. Wads-
wofth and jackson. s. G.
No Forts Mcpherson and Ogle-
thorpe. Georgia, and base hospitals at
Camps Gordon. Hancock. Wheeler, Nc
Cleuan and Sheridan
No. S-Base hospital Camp Sherman,
Ohio.
No. 9-Fort Benjamin Harrison and
West Baden. Ind. and base hospital
chH!p lEylOT
No. lO--Dstroit and base hospital
Camp Custer.
No. 11-Chicago. general hospital
Fort Sheridan and base hospital Camp
Grant.
No. Idiot Springs and Fort Logan
IL. Roots. Arkansas, end base hospitals
Camps Pike. Beauregard and Shelby.
No. Efforts Des MONIES and Smell
ling and base hospital Camp Dodge.
No. Effort Bayard, n. NJ: Whip
pie Barracks. Ari2. Denver. Col, and
base hospitals Camp Cody and Fort
Riley.
No. l5--Corpus Christi, Tex. and base
hospitals Camps Logan. Travis. Near
thur and Bowie, and at Forts Sam
Houston, Sill ami Bliss.
No. 16--Fort Douglas. Utah. and
Preside, san Francisco, and base hos
pitfalls Camps Kealny. Fremont and
Lewis.