South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-30
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beef teas DO not meet the need ON board the Mercy
Comfort. there is now machine which manu-
features milk any desired quantity. although the
ship may have been AT sea Tor weeks rms me
chanical COW" needs to be fed with combination OF
unsaIted butter skinned milk powder, and il will
give milk with any degree OF butter fat which
yields like the quality of
dairy milk and cream that can DE procured ashore.
manufactures - minutes about Is gallons Of
highly nutritious cold, pasteurized milk, which needs
only DE poured into milk cans and put IN the cold
room, where it VIII keep just long as fresh
milk from Jersey COW.
There = also an ice cream machine run by cleo
tricy. for making ice cream IN quantities For small
amounts of cream demanded for individual diets
are ordinary quart and pint freezers. A distns
plant consisting of evapOratOrs and distlers is ca
psble furnishing about 10000 gallons of fresh water
each day: ample supply for all purposes of drink
ing and cooking. washing and bathing
DENTAL OFFICE.
Sailors must have good teeth. To repair dental
fects is among the officers the ship.
"a dental surgeon. He occupies a only about l.
by - in size but containing complete dentists
outht. well special instruments and apparatus
maXilae and other minor operations which may prop
erly classified dentistry. The office furnishings
are of pressed steel enameled white, and high
frequency violet ray lessons the aches and pains of pa
tients in the chair. a tiny machine shop, consisting
of electric lathe, vacuum machine for casting
purposes, blOwplpe outnt and compressed air ma
"a the disposal the officer a visit
the dentist could be made pleasure, surely
such an Office would go far TO accomplish it,
The N-ray machine is OF the wonders or the
modern scientific world. An N-ray machine today
indispensable in any large hospital. is more
essential in military surgery and the N-ray rooms on
the hospital ships Of the United States navy are the
most perfect that could De devised Because OF the
ships motion. number of adjustments required
which would be installed in the ordinary X-ray
equipment The current supplied is far than is
demanded for the rapid and difficult radio
graphy The table the very latest type. per
hitting examinations either a standing a prone
position. and fractures may De reduced bullets re-
moved, shell fragments in the located and
moved Roentgen therapy Is also provided and there
dark for the development OF plates. together
With special illuminating device for studying them.
Adjoining the X-ray room is the chemical labora-
Here chemical analysis carried and in
vestsations made of blood. body fluids and eNcreta
Pathological disgnosis diseased tissues Is provided
Tor. testing OF serums and vaccine. adjunct
90 the laboratory is the animal house. contain.ns
guinea pigs rabbits sheep. and fowl. which
an we'll cared for possible.
The value of sunshine better understood than u
used There time. in by when
housewives pulled down their shades and closed The
blinds with Jealous NOWADAYS even the less
progressive let the air and sun. preferrnz
sghty faded carpet house full OF germs and mil
dew a sunshine and air available In greater
purity and quantity than IN the crowded cities Ad-
vantage taken or this in providing "solarium OF
sun parlor supplement hospital treatment The
sun bath situated course the upper deck. and
enables convaIescent patients 70 live much prso-
ticable open and sunlight and still be shield
ed from adverse weather conditions In case OF great