The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-08-08
HOSPITAL
FACILITIES FOR
EX-SERVICE MEN
Sites Selected, Plans are
Drawn, and Contracts
Let

WASHINGTON, Aug 8-The
increase in hospital facilities for ex
service men provided for under the
Langley bill is being rapidly push
ed by the U. S. Veterans bureau.
Director Forbes who has just
finished a tour of inspection in
which he personally visited many
proposed hospital sites announces
the completion of an extensive
building program. The new neuro-
psychiatric hospital to be in North
ampton, Mass, will be started i'm
,mediately. Bids are all in and the
contract has been made, states
Colonel Forbes.
Plans are being rushed for the
500-bed neuro-psychiatrc hospital
to be situated at Chillicothe, Ohio.
Bids will all be in by the first of
September and army engineers will
by that time have completed the
survey now under way.
The Upper Lake project, which
supplants the one formerly planned
for Liberty, N. Y, is being survey
ed by an engineering corps at the
present time. 1t is announced that
upper Lake, which is in northern
New York, offers innumerable adj
vantages as site for tuberculo-
sis hospital. At the same time
plans for the Chelsea, New York,
500-bed tuberculosis hospital which
will be constructed Jointly by the
Treasury department and the Vet
Grams bureau, are being revised and
standardized to suit the topo-
graphy of the ground. Everything
will be in readiness for the begin
ming of operations within 80 days.
Selection of site in District ten
is the latest to be made. st. Cloud,
Mimi, will be the location and a
large neuro-psychiatricN hospital
will be built. No decision has been
reached in regard to the proposed
site in District eight. This matter
is now in the hands of the Presi-
dent but is expected to be cleared
up before the end of the month.
The hospital planned for the site
selected in this erea will contain
1000 beds.
At Knoxville, Iowa a survey is
now being made to enable the bur
eau to draw plans and specifca-
tons for the erection of a mental
hospital. Bids have been called for,
and an award is expected to be an
nounced by October LIST.
Land at Gulfport, Miss, for the
construction of a neuro-psychiatlic
hospital by the bureau is being
surveyed at the present time and
the announcement of the actual
consummation of the transaction
will be made in few days. Pur-
chase of the Methodist Hospital at
Memphis, Tenn, has been made by
the bureau, and the deed turned
over to the United States.
Director Forbes visited the
Camp Lewis, Wash, site. He found
it adequate in every respect and
further stated that complete plans
specifications for the erection of a
neuro-psychiatric Hospital there
will be ready on or about October
LIST. He also inspected the ground
at Livermore, Calf, and stated
that bids for this project would be
in by October 1st.
Under the provisions of the sec
ond Langley bill, recently passed
by Congress, the director of the U.
S. Veterans bureau is empowered
to provide additional hospital and
out-patient dispensary facilities
for persons who served in the
World war and are patients of the
U. S. Veterans bureau. This bill
carried with it an appropriation of
! $12,000,000 and permitted the di-
rector to incur further obligations,
subject to the approval of the
President of the United States,
for the purpose or hospital con-
struction, not to exceed in the ag-
gregate $5,000,000.
During the past month, Co onel
Forbes has been busy going over
the sites in person, arranging to
obtain clear titles to property, dis
cussing plans and specifications
with army engineers and arranging
last-minute details regarding con
struction. 1t has been a painstak-
ing task, in which the Committee
on disqualification has cooperated
with the director Results are how