The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-10-03
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looking fine and is very much salts.
fed with the company that he is now
in. This weeks Stars and Stripes
says that a new leave area has beer
opened up on the Brittany coast, SO
from now on we will have the choice
of two summer resorts. We also had
a report this week that Claude Polly
is in Paris visiting his brother. We
hear that he is a top-sergeant in an
infantry company located near there
suppose you remember me writing
you this spring of the order that we
had. to take at least two baths a
week, and that punishment was to be
meted out to all who did not get their
names on the bath report at least
that often in one week. Well, every
thing has been changed now, and they
say the hot weather is to blame for it
all. At the present time they have
established guard at the bath room
door to see that no one takes a bath
at all, at all. Last week sometime
the waterworks system gave out, be-
cause the well refused to give up it's
gold any more. Water has been so
scarce that we have had to put an
ambulance on the job to carry drink
ing water. For two weeks we haven't
been allowed to take bath and from
the looks of things it will probably
be that much longer. Of course, the
river is close and free to all who
want to use, but who wants to take
a bath when they don't have to.
The last of the new buildings start
ed a couple of months ago will be
completed this week and the big new
hospital will then be going full blast.
But alas, ten new buildings have al
ready been ordered and will be here
in a short time and another large
force will be detailed to put them up
quickly The past week has been the
biggest week we have had. All the
hospital beds are working double time
and the patients who are not very
sick or who are on the road to recov-
cry, have been put in pup-tents on
the hospital grounds. In fact, we have
over 200 patients sleeping outdoors.
A few weeks ago Major Clark told
me that his ambition was to have a
thousand patients, and now we have
more than that by considerable. But
the major is anything but happy
man, for he is kept on the go all the
time trying to figure how to put four
men in one bed. So far we have been
able to take care of all who came, but
our limit has certainly been reached
ooJ &c ,,,opxy mora coroa vup will coon
have to give up. The great increase
of patients is not due to the big drive
the allies are making, but to the i'm
mense number of soldiers that are
arriving here every week from the
States.
Sept. 4.-Last Friday an order
came through that we would have to
pay every patient in the hospital cas-
ual pay for August. AS there are
more than 1900 patients, and we had
to get their names, make up the pay
rolls, have them sign t, get it all
o. KID by the paymaster and then |
pay the men and get receipt from
each one, it was big job. We
worked all Saturday night and by z
o'clock the next morning had the pay
rolls ready for signature. The signed
payrolls were delivered to the pay
master that morning about 9 o'clock
and late that night we received the
money. The men were paid early
Monday morning.
Our hospital is still growing, due
TO the increasing number of soldiers
passing through this camp from the