Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-05
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GOOD FOR MEN
| in HOSPITALS
[ajor Shields Says all Men
| Have to do is to Ask for
! Necessities.

Amy hospitals for treatment, accord
e5dHns to Major W. A. SHIELDS, in charge
ANxaf the Arny's Central department
Sar edical supply depot here, who has
aust given to The Associated Press a
SGGetalied account of tho methods en-
G.iotSd in safeguarding the health of
sAAle men in Khaki. .l.I
q. Major Shields said that medical Of
nave only TO task for what they want
Nor the treatment of the men and it
Egoes to them.
n, AN officer at Fort Sheridan recent
Gay asked for a special type OF operat-
gang table, fsaid Major Shields. ut
N%"as not a standard table and is used
|$only rarely.s. Although it had to be
made to order and cost considerably
mot2 than the ordinary table. it was
flushed at once TO the hospital"
yssAa Many army surgeons. he stated, ask
go certain instruments,
,$fometimes for use in one particular
Erase only, yet the medical supply Of
&iicers spare tno-efforts to obtain them.
In Carrying out the departmental
&oolicy Of thoroughness in the. treat
Enent of thesn1en, only the most sani-
MAarH, most modern and most efficient
equipment is sent out. This rule APP
Mi'iie2a o everything, from, the furniture
#l%used in the institutions to the dishes
Htfrom which, the patients eat. Major
SsE;hields said that al hospitals. are sup
i81)lied with high grade silrer-plated
I8l<njves, forks and spoons, fine quality
f1lincns. the best food, sleeping quar-
tiers as pleasant and convenient as
3noney can provide. and that every
4hing else is Dill the high plane.
Although the depot has to furnish
I8no supplies for wounded men as yet,
The hospitals OF the Central depart
inent have received more than a,000,-
0G0 feet OF cloth bandages-enough
ito yextend from New York to tho
Tc2as coast. When the American
forces are actually engaged in trench
Narfare in any considerable M n-
/ hers, and wounded men begin to pour
INTO American hospitals, Major
Shields said, it lis probable that the
INA edical supply depot will he overtax-
Lea to supply needcd bandagcs. Be-
Eause Of this fact officials are investi-
eating paper bandages which are said
to DE equally as seryiceablc as the
kind now in general use. Paper band
ages have been in use i'll Germany for
some time almost exclusively owing
u the inability of that country to get
material for. cloth b%andases.
% Major Shields expressed confidence
that the department will not be en-
barrassed because of the scarcity of
ISIlS ncGSVAl vi uS VI ~
army hospitals. German drugs have
been duplicated by American medical
Investigators with the, result that the
departments adequately equipped to
care for it's men. either wounded or
ill.
army hospitals, Major Shields said.
Its use, he declared. is being discour-
aged because the. reaction it causes
makes it's use as q stimulant unde-
sirable. according to the medical ofl-
GER. He, said. however, that a small
quantity of Whiskey is carried at the
depot and will be supplied houlde any
pection Major Shields spoke, of the
NTNera Cruz expedition in 1914 when he
acted as medical supply officer for
General Funston.
During the month that we were
there" he said. 81 Issued just one
quart of whiskey."
on the other hand alcohol is one. OF
ta,e most widely usedlnedicai supplies
kept at the depot. 1t is shipped to
]cantonment camps in so gallon drums
and is used in great quantities fol-
baths and sin rubbing
Electricity is being made to do it,
share in the care Of the soldiers
Many modern hospital appliances are
operated By electricity in addition to
the part tbs playing in the Treatment
of tuberculosis. N-ray photographs
Of lungs of.soldiers suspected of beint
tubercular are taken at the rate o
fifty a day at each Of the cantonmen
hospitals. by thesusc& o these f'.luns
!spictures" the treatment of tuber
Nulosis hasfbeen greatly simplitied
f<Eifty thousand X-ray plates: have
been used at the Central department
camps in the past two months, Majo
Shields said.
To mend: fractured limbs. splints.i,
Various sizes, made Of steel, tin o
wood, are CARRIED at the depot. TO
= Shipments to hospitals as needed. A
zach hospital there is a carpenter VIII
l3adapts the Ssp1int to he indiiidua
Isnecd of the patient! nj ~ e
I'M The medical supply+depot at Chica
HA4o suppliesshospitals at Camps Gran
custer, Sherman. Dodge and Taylor
in additionsto all aviation fields an
yxmaller carnps in the Central depart
Nnent of the army: In addition t
ilhese the depot supplies furniture t
Eli army hospitals in h country
" Among the hundreds of articles ser
isDut from here Major Shields liste
#xcalpelS, thermometers. hot water an
Nice bags, invalid chairs, COTS chairs
Mables, silyerware,. operating ap
haratus, plumbing supplies, bandage:
!, Aperating . gowns, attendants an
( NURSES clothing. pajamas,, towels, lin
MenS;y settces. plaster for gcasts, ever
Known drug used. by physician'
Anaestehtics. toxins and seruins, wit
Mhe contriVances necessary for the
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