The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-21
Great Plans Made For ~
Wounded ArrjUing
In New York
Debarkation Hospitals Splendidly
Equipped, With Boats and
Finely Fitted Trains

New York, Aug. 1.-The Medica
Corps of the United States Army Il
ready for the reception, care, and tn,
treatment of the American wounded
from overseas. Three splendid.
equipped debarkation hospitals IL
New York City are ready to receiy,
patients, while four others, three tx
be situated in New York City proper
and one at Long Beach, will be ready
within few weeks.
The bed capacity of the debarkation
hospitals, which are now ready, if
1851, and an equal number will be
added when the four receiving hospi-
tails have been taken over and
equipped, which will be before the
end of next month.
In addition, two splendidly appoint
ed hospital trains, each with a con-
valescent capacity of $50 patients in
addition to thirty bed patients, are
now based on New York. Both of
these trains, which are known as
United States Hospital Trains Num-
bers 1 and a. are ready for their jour-
heys of mercy to any part Of the
country to which they may be or
dered
Within the next few weeks the first
Of the seriously wounded from the
great allied offensives, whose injuries
are such as to incapacitate them for
further service in the battle zones,
will arrive in New York. Already
modified in New York and ready to
minister to these soldiers are 529 Off
GERS of the medical, sanitary and den
tai arms of the Medical Corps. 2,64s
trained hospital attendants, ambu-
lance drivers. and other enlisted men
Of the Medical Service, 342 graduate
army nurses, and sixty-five civilian
helpers.
Within a short time alter a patient
in received from overseas the name OF
that patient, the extent Of his injuries.
and his condition at that time will be
communicated to the proper American
Red Cross authorities, who will at
once notify the immediate relatives OF
the injured man. It is the earnest
desire of the Medical Corps that the
relatives of these men will not try
to see them while they are in the de-
barkation hospitals, but will wait un-
til the patients have been transferred
to that general hospital which is near
est to the home of the wounded SOL
der.
The wounded, as we'll as the i'll
from natural causes, who are sent
home from France, will, at the earliest
possible opportunity, be transferred to
the general hospitals, of which there
are twenty-seven in the United States
all of which, with few exceptions,
are now ready to receive their maxi
mum quotas of patients. In addition,
large and finely appointed general
hospital which has been built near
Halifax, Nova Scotia, is ready.
1.-THE parents, other near relatives,
and the friends of our wounded or
otherwise incapacitated men," high
officer of the Medical Corps, who IL
Tow on duty in New York, said yes
terday Should bear in mind that the
government is prepared to and will
give the very best of care to every
American boy who is returned home
as result of wounds or illness due
to the overseas service.
mo detail necessary to the care and
best possible treatment of the soldiers
has been overlooked, and parents and
relatives can be assured that they will |
be as tenderly cared for as they would |
be in their own homes"