The Cordova daily times., 1918-12-19

1 aCcentuated by the lessons Of the al lied governments in repatriatng their wounded, the debarkatiOn system was put in readiness for the reception of injured men at the rate of 10000 to 15,000 a month.
 During the war and five weeks period following the signing of the armistice, approximately ll,5OO
 wounded had been received at New
 York and 4,50O at Newport News. And the authorities were prepared. on of fcial advices from Washington, to handle 50,000 cases in the next four months.
 The army embarkation service at New York, which sent three-fourths of the nations men overseas. is ex- pected to debark a ma ajority of the re turning forces. and the westward flow of wounded also will be directed here with some diversion to Newport News and possibly. later on. to Boston. To carry on the work at this port the medical department has a personnel of 7.306-greater than the entire army medical corps when the United States entered the war. On this staff. head. ed by Colonel J. NJ. Kennedy. veteran of twenty-five years service as an army surgeon. $50 are medical off cers. 9S3 nurses. men and women. l 5,1S4 enlisted men and 189 civilian employees
 The operating facilities include eight debarkation hospitals. with an aggregate capacity of lG.9OO beds, two base hospitals with 4,520 beds. re construction hospital at Columbia University for cases too serious to be moved to interior institutions. five harbor hospital boats with BOO beds each, seventy-fve ambulances, with i fifty additional held in reserve by the Red Cross, and four hospital trains each accommodating upwards of 200 patients.
 The base hospitals are at Camps Merritt and Mills former embarka- tion. now debarkation, cantonments for the oversease army. The debarka- tion hospitals are strategically To- cated on or near the harbor front 1 The port medical authorities. re- sponsible for soldier patients from the time Of their arrival from Europe to their delivery at general hospitals nearest their home communities. aim to clear their charges from the de barkatiOn hospitals within week. tine station. Here medical officers board incoming transports and assist the doctors aboard in preparing the men for landing. In practically all cases the wounded are taken directly from the ship to the harbor hospital boat which conveys them to a pier tals. where ambulanCes are in wait ing.
 While the men get their shore bearings" their cases are studied and assignments made to reconstruction or ConvalesCent hospitals.
 The next process is the attachment group he is to conduct to an interior station When he has become famil- far with his charges he applies for hospital car or train. according to the size of his party, and for an es- Cort of doctors. nurses and ordorlios If train is assigned, the journey. even across tn" continent, is simple, but if the wounded fill only one car, which must be attached to regular trains. the feeding problem becomes acute Here the Red Cross lends it's aid. arranging by telegraph with it's GuXiliaries along the way for meals for the travellers at points where nei- ther dining car service nor station res. taurants are available.
 The hospital trains. equipped with specially constructed Pullman sleep. ing and kitchen cars. have accommo- datons both for walking cases" and l foi men so severely injured that they must remain abed both day and night In anticipation of their use on an extensive scale. fifty officers and 200 men are in training here. and smaller company at Newport News. as escort attachments.
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