Evening star., 1918-04-14
United States ARMY Medical Corps Since the War Started

This division also provides hqeYozfHSS
for the treatment OF lung ana heAfe.
ailments, and specialists in that work. !
a well az the medical staffs for base
hospitals. (
and company officers for tne tso1nton
and rejection oS the sasa msnsaMy ,ns unTs x
ogy. The mentally superior. through
this system, by proper assignment eqo
promotion, are encouraged, while oaea
are supplied tos eSualisins sn,s, cTai,m o,Si,nes-
tions necessary in recent warfare. some
superior enlisted men have been sent
to the officers' training camps.
Because the allied armies encouneer-
ed q large number Of neurotio, mental
and other detectives. who soon became
useless for field service. the division OF
neurology and psychiatry was estao-
the Army those who, while physically.
sound, are incapable of becoming SOL
diers by reason OF insanity, mental 4e-
feet. drug habit and other nervous die-
orders. Il also cares for and treats
insane and nervous patients in military
Under the Army Nurse Corps are re-
cruited nurses for the service. Con.
has no contact with the Army Medical
Corps in the matter of actual nursing.
They have supplied many nurses Tor
Army Nurse Corps. the nurse Is no
longer a so-called Red Cross nurse.
Only nurses belonging TO the Army
Nurse Corps are allowed within the
zone OF the Army.
Both the French and British mis-
sions 70 this country have members at
tached to the surgeon generals once.
In addition, at every camp, are repre-
giving instruction to the soldiers train
Ing along different lines. After having
served in the trenches these instructors
are able to lend to their work q realism
way, and can bring home 60 our boys
in khaki the real work Of the war.
Practically all hospitals connected
with the National Army and National
struction. equipment and appliances,
except where special work may de-
mand larger scale of equipment.
Built on the pavilion" plan, every
light and fresh air. as only on one
side 10 IL connected with the long halls
which keep the hospital as q whole
roof. Each ward also has it's own
porch. screened. for convalescents.
To give q description of the many
rooms In which special work ts car
Of modern, thoroughly equipped hos
pttal, which treated all possible ALL
ments OF man. Despite the fact that
the buildings are only frame etruc-
lures, many of them as yet unpainted.
there 10 no atmosphere of ''Tnaks-
shift once the hospital has Dean
entered.
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In addition to the kitchen. in which
is prepared the food for the general
patients, there is smaller kitchen IN
which special dishes are prepared for
those on q diet. These two kitchens.
moreover, are in addition to that In
which the officers meals are prepared,
while the nursing corps Is housed In
q separate building, with Its own Gull
nary facilities.
The predominating thought carried
away by the visitor to a base hospital
10 the fact that the percentage OF sick
ness Ia not as large as might be I'm
piled from q casual survey OF the
weekly reports issued by the surgeon
general. This is due to the fact that
reporting to the regimental hospital
each regiment has its own, with
small corps Of attending physicians
IL as much q soldiers duty as Is an
swering a bugle call.
The man with cold, a severe mead
ache or any one of numberless minor
ailments. when in the Army, reports
to the hospital and is either given
treatment there or sent to the base
men at home would resort to 'home
remedies" rather than go TO the ex-
pense Of paying Doctors bill ana the
cost of prescriptions. In making re,
ports the base hospital includes all
admissions"
It IS estimated that the total number
of physicians in the United states is
more than $1,000. Those within mill
tary age are less than $1,000. In
fixing on this figure. IL must be remep1-
bered that the Army Medical Corps
had to guard against taking men away
from districts which would then be
left without adequate medical protec-
tion. The men who could be spared
for Army service number about 6S 600.
OF that total the $1,000 now on tho
Reserve Corps lists represent one
fourth.