Weekly journal-miner., 1918-09-04
.215 PATIENTS IN SAN|TAR|UM AT
 FORT WH|PPLE
GREAT GOOD HAS AL READY BEEN ACCOM M- PLISHED IN TREATMENT OF INVALIDS, SAYS PLY SICIAN IN CHARGE.
(From Sundays DaiIv)

piS IS ldNiiS NdiC Oi -lS luDSlN NuidT patients, and every one of them is making progress on the way to a complete recovery, according to the statement of Lieutenant Mareno, who on Friday afternoon piloted a Jour nal-Mfner representative through every department of the huge sanitar- ium. Besides the patients, there arc more than 800 officers and enlisted men at the post, and instead of pos sessing the disolate and forsaken ap- pcarance which had overhung the re- serve since the post was abandoned as military center in 1913, Whipple is now crowded and as busy as it was in years gone by.
 Tn spite of the fact that many of the tubercular patients have been quartered at Whipple for only few weeks, marked improvement is to be noted in the majority of them, the wonderful Arizona mountain air. careful dieting and the most skilled medical attention which Uncle Sam has at his command, having already begun the work of rchabilitating the soldiers who have fallen victim to the deadly ravages of pulmonary tubercu losis.
 "I was stationed at that other great tubercular sanitarium, Fort Bavard l x. M., for many years" said Lieut. Mareno. and I had come to believe that that place was the best in the world for the treatment of lung af- f1ictions, but since being detailed to Whipple. I have discovered that Ari- zona is probably the best State in the west for the treatment of this disease which we are at present com i batting SO strenuously We can note rapid improvement n most of the pat tents and it is partly due to the won dcrful air of this part of the State. The climatic conditions at Bayard are somewhat similar to those pre- vailing here. but that post IS located out in the desert country where sand storms are frequent and where the heat IS much greater than it is here. This location is ideal in every re- spect"
 While the facilities at the post are crowded 10 near their capacity, if is the belief of those in authority that i the war departments building pro gram will be put into effect within the next @ or 90 days, and when the ] extensive scheme is at last brought to la completion, there will be facilities for taking care of i 200 or l 800 pa ticnts. More than 30 huge buildings arc to be erected and these will be erected on every available foot Of ground in the military reserve. The idea of Introducing temporary or cantonment type Of contraction has ] been cast aside, and the buildings which are soon to be erected will be ! of tile, concrete and stucco cOnstruc~ ton and will be permanent and as nearly fire-proof as modern building methods can make them. The hospi- tai when completed, will far outstrip those at Denver and Fort Bayard in point of size and importance. and it 1 is believed that ultimately 5000 pco- pie will be quartered in the great sanitarium. the majority of them i patients of course
 . Just now tents are being erected ! to take care of the overflow or in valided men. Each tent has accomo- dations for l6 men, and there are four tents now in use and others being put up just back of the main barracks. l That the sick boys are not forgotten by the Prescott people was evidenced on Friday afternoon by the large num- Der of automobiles parked in front of the huge building where most of the invalds are quartered. Both of the big rooms on the second floor oceu- pied by the men. and the wide verap- das were well filled with women and young girls who had come out to do what they could to brighten the hours of the boys who are compelled to spend practically all of their time in bed. Flowers and books and maga- zines were on every cot and the boys seemed far from down-cast. Visitors a-c allowed to call on the patients two or three afternoons during each week and it is said that the sick men look forward with much interest to ! these visiting days.
 The patients in the tents down on. the sidewalk are generally composed of men who are not in such physical . 1y bad shape as the men in the long rooms in the barracks. They have aI few privileges which are not grant ed 10 those upstairs, one of which isl that they arc allowed to retain their street garments instead of having to wear pajamas most of the time. None of the patients. however, are permit ted to use the gymnasium equipment or to do any great amount of physi- cal exercise, this not being in keep ing with the plans of the department for effecting the complete cure of the invalids.
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