Evening star., 1924-08-17
Army.

Maj. Gen. George c. Richards. CHE:
of the Militia Bureau. left Washing
ton this week for an inspection o.
the summer training activities of the
National Guard Coast Artillery units
Of Virginia and Florida. He will re-
, turn 70 Washington on August is.
Lieut.. Col. +. H. de Almond, Field
Artillery, chief of the training Sc,
ton, office Of the chief of Field Ar
. tIllery, will leave Washington tomor-
row to inspect the c. NJ t c and
, o. r. G, Field Artillery units, which
are in camp at Pine Camp, near Madi-
son Barracks, y. Y. He will return
, The end of the week
Orders have been issued by the
War Department authorizing the at
tendance Of two non-c commissioned
officers, eight OF whom Will take the
course Of instruction at the Phila-
deiphla Quartermaster Corps School,
while TWO will take the course a,
the QuartermaSter Corps Motor
Transport School, Camp Holabird
Md. Those who will take the
course al Philadelphia are Technical
! Serets. Francis H. Rawlings, Patrick
]. kierwan, Benjamin L. Snyder.
Thomac Mack. Edwin F. Mitchell and
staff SergtS. MarCele Bezdek, Charles
H. Smith and Jesse II. Smith Sergts
Joe Tafolla, jr., and George H. Wan
ton will take the course which will
be given at Camp Holabird.
The new policy of the ouarterrnas-
ter general with reference to the
purchase of coal was successfully
demonstrated at the Chicago quarter
master intermediate depot recently
when proposals were opened for some
hundred and fifty thousand tons OF
various kinds of coal. anthracite and
bituminous, for posts in the Fifth
Sixth and Seventh Corps Areas. There
| were SO different items and 35 sepa-
rate points of delivery to be consid-
cred by the 100 bidders who COM
peted. A considerable reduction in
prices over those obtained last year
was noted.
Under date of July IA the quarter
master general inaugurated q corps
campaign in the field looking toward
the curtailment of the number of files
of general orders, circulars, etc. and
a consequent reduction in printing in
so far as the Quartermaster Corps is
concerned. From reports already re-
| ceived the Indication is that a reduc-
tion of about 25 per cent of this sort
of printed matter will be made by
the Quartermaster Corps.
Announcement was made this week
of the basic course, 1324-1925. of the
schedules of instruction of the Army
Medical School, Army Veterinary
School and the Dental School. All
| three courses will begin their in
struction September 2, 1924.
The basic course of the Army Med
fca1 School consists of five depart
ments, viz, surgery, clinical medicine,
preventive medicine and clinical path
ology, roentgenology and ophthal
mology and oto-laryngology, totalinE
1855 hours. That of the Veterinary
School includes III hours of work in
the departments of meat and dairy
hygiene, veterinary forage inspection,
preventive medicine and clinical path
ology, roentgenology and veterinary
surgery and pathological horseshoe
ing. In the Army Dental School the
IT'S hours of instruction will be ap-
portioned among the following de-
partments: Clinical dentistry, pres
thesis, oral surgery, preventive med
icine and clinical pathology, roent-
Genology and special lectures.
Statistics compiled in the surgeon
generals office show that from 1920
to 1928 there were 1875 fractures re
ported to the office of the surgeon
general, of which 9,50S were simple
fractures, while 1927 were compound
fractures. OF the compound frac-
lures, 1882 per cent were fatal, while
17.6 per cent were given their dis
charge on account of disability.
Fractures of this character necessi-
tated a long time in the hospital.
The surgeon generals Office is now
preparing a compilation on this sub
ject which will give the different
percentages according to branches.