New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29
livery Care for
- the Wounded

Every battalion of a regiment ha. =.
medical men and two squads of litter h...
ers, who seek, pick up and tag the wop,a,a
administering first aid before sending Them
back to the battalion first aid post. which :.
located from half mile TO one mile ana.
half behind the firing line, according h .on
ditions, and has one medical officer. one no.
com. and four private medicas and e;ch
stretcher bearers in addition to those of -.
ambulance company. Sometimes, battle ~.
ditions permitting, the regimentaI drsss;.u
station takes the place and work of tbo
battalion at the head of the ambulance ,ooa
Here wounded are redressed, given anti
tetanic serum when practicable, and Tho.
sent back to the tirage or Distributing bos
pltal (about three to five miles from the
front, depending on character of countrr
and fighting), usually established BY q fell
hospital or ambulance or ambulance com.
pany, where experts in wounds gas and
shock classify the patients, operating on
the urgent cases when necessary and zena.
ing the others on to special HOSPITALS q,
suggested by the character Of their in.
jury, such as seriously, slightly wounded
and gassed.
One field hospital is always assigned for
seriously wounded that cannot bear trans.
portaton for long distances. and is fur.
nished with surgical special apparatus
surgical teams and trained nurses. On.
other hospital is equipped for treatment 0;
gassed cases and the remaining field las.
pital is held in reserve and used at what.
ever point most needed to supplement The
others. From the division field hospit.ls
the wounded are sent to evacuation hospj.
tails, according to their ability to stani
the journey, the scheme being to locate
hospitals in ar area so as to take care Of
the very badly hit quickly and send to the
rearmost hospitals those that can best
stand the trip, which may be ten, fifteen
or twenty miles.
The evacuation hospitals, which may be in
tents Or in S0x25 foot Service de Sante
French nuts, or in such town buildings as
offer accommodation, are usually GROUPED
near the railhead, where patients may be
discharged as soon as possible into the hos
pltal train and sent on to the base hospital,
1t beng necessary to clear the evacuation
hospitals as rapidly as condition of men will
allow IN order to make room for freshly
wounded coming all the time, day and
night during the progress of battle.
these hospital trains, of which we have
sixteen built for US in England, are the
finest and most comfortable th;nrs Of ths,
kind on wheels, with doctors nurses t4A.
ems and two weeks supplies, and carry $50
lying and 40 sitting. or us sitting in the
sixteen cars which make UP a train hut two
OF which are for kitchens and staff per.
sonnet.
The evacuation hospital has staff con-
prlslng specialists in skin. blood pressure,
various shocks and nervous disorders, and
Teams OF surgeons that work twelve hour
SHIFTS and handle ten to sixteen cases every
h0ur OF the twenty-four. for there is not
moments cessation in the operating room
so long as patient is waiting.
Inc tent evacuation hospital Of 600 beds
requires sixty motor trucks to move and
one and half days to be set up: the mobile
oesseneau group can be moved by forty
trucks and set up in day At Chatesu
Ihlerry No. l mobile came in at 4 a. m. and
l stood in its operating room, going at full
capacity, at on the evening of the same
day.
Inc base hospitals, as their name implies
are located to the far rear and distributed
Well over France, some of them with conys
iescent camps, such as that of Savigny
near st. Nazaire, where construction is in
progress to care for 10000, and down in the
southeast, at Axle Bains, is the great play
camp for men on furlough.
Where the base hospital is located in
town hotels or unused French barracks have
peen rented and sometimes French hospitals
taken over, but in the country the one stor
French huts, as in the field, are employed
each holding thirty patients and easily put
up In building their system the Medical
corps Lived up to the speed note Of the
A. +. f., as may be seen by the following
figures: In May, 1918, the corps had forty
four hospitals. with crisis capacity fol-
zo,l9o beds, the three largest having ca
pacity for 2,400, 1900 and 600, and twelve
September, 1918, there were 100 hospitals
exclusive, Of course, Of divisional field hos
pitals-with capacity of 1872 500 beds, fifty
one having capacity for 200 beds and over
twenty-nine for $500 and over, fifteen i0'
5000 and over, two for 5000 and one I0'
1000 beds.
Such is the scope to which the A. T. T.
has brought its disqualification, while tns
record of 50 to so per cent of wounded r.
turned to service indicates likewise the
quality Of its work.
AS for tire general health of the army TIC
record Of October showed an annual des''
rate from disease among troops in Fran"
to be less than 2 per cent per 1000, =
against the rate of 6.7 per cent per ,c0
among civilians Of the same age IN Amere'
And not the least notable OF the results o.
medical effort n Trance is the successful
combat against venereal diseases. The &c