The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-27

| A SAOoo ANOl OoAANy AotS VA O'oG Pei
cent in the past IL months speaks
silent volumes for the skill of the
hospitals personnel, which COM
prises As medical officers, so nurses,
26l hospital corpsmen and total
maintenance and commissary crew
of 81. Surgical mortality on COM
bat wounds has Appropriated IA
per cent. Medical deaths represent
but 0,035 of all admissions.
These percentages become the
more impressive when it is consid-
cred that the hospital serves, in
addition to U. S. armed forces and
civilian components thereof, Brit
ish and Australian army, navy and
police forces, and their families !;
Free French forces, and, as we'll,
the civilian population of the is
land, the native Melanesian and
Polynesian people, and the planta-
iton owners whose lands we now
occupy.
U. S. Naval Base Hospital No. 2
was actually commissioned some
six months after the arrival of the
medical unit last May, but patients
had been admitted to several ward
huts long before. When first war
casualties began to arriver by ambu-
lance plane from the SolomonS'
battlefront, everything was in
readiness for them.
Distinguished Staff Heads
During the period preceding &C
tual commission of the hospital,
patients Army, Navy and Ma
rine Corps were cared for at a
small French hospital in a small
administration building and in
three large private dwellings COM
Wandered" for the purpose. These
provided a total of 300 beds and
between 300 and 400 patients were
cared for in this manner in the
period between arrival of the med
ical unit and actual commissioning
of their hospital.
These interim patients" re-
'ceived excellent care despite the
crudeness of their surroundings.
The general picture has changed
for much the better since then,
however, and the finest modern
equipment is now in use by highly
skilled Men of Medicine
Heading the top-flight staff at
teh hospital, many of whom were
teachers in medical colleges back
home, is short, stocky and affable
Captain John E. Porter (MC), U. S.
Navy of Richmond, Va, who has
been on active duty for the past
26 years. Many yeoman and yeo-
manette now serving in the armed
forces owes his or her presence
there to the skill of DR.. Porter, a
specialist in gynecology and OBJ
sterics. DR.. Porter is the hospital
commanding officer" He is a fell
low of the American College of Sur
geons. His hobby is trapshooting
at which he is we'll known through
out California. DR.. Porter's family
resides in Long Beach, Cal, al
though he claims greensboro, N. c.
as his home town.
Executive officer" of the hospi.
tai is Captain Frederick w. Muller
(MC) U. S. Navy, of Erie, Pa.
whose duties include the interna.
administration of the various de-
partments of the institution and
personnel supervision. DR.. Muller
like DR.. Porter has also had &c
years of active service in the Navy
He has served at one time or an
other in naval establishments at
Mare Island and San Diego, CAL
Brooklyn, N. Y, New Orleans, La.
and aboard the hospital ships
Mercy and Relief. DR.. Muller is a
diplomat of the American Board
of Radiology and member of the
| American College of Radiology
His family resides at Huntington
Park, Cal
Noted Specialists
Members of the naval reserve
with executive experience in pri-
vate practice prior to their induc-
ton head the medical and surgical
Staffs at No. 2.
Chief of Surgery, with IA wards
under his jurisdiction, is Com
mander Oliver w. Butler, (MC), of
DoWney, Cal, a noted urologist.
Commander Butler prior to entering
the Navy, engaged for 81 years in
private practice in Los Angeles. He
taught urology as member of the
staff of the medical department of
the University of Southern Califor-
mia. His societies includes the
American Board of Urology.
Chief of Medicine, and, as such,
responsible for IL wards, is Cap
tain Walter M. Simpson (MC), US
Mr., of Dayton, o. Captain Simpson
has been awarded numerous med
ais for his research work in tula-
remia and undulant fever.
Born in Lynn, Mass, Captain
Simpson is former director of the
Kettering Institute for Medical Re-
search, Miami Valley Hospital,
Dayton, o. He Is chairman of the
National Inventors Council, to
which all inventions related to the
war are submitted.
Numerous other outstanding ply
sicians and surgeons are attached
to the staff of No. 2, including, for
example, Commanders William H,
Leake (MC) USNR, of Beverly Hills
Cal; Henry II, Kessler (MC)
USNR. of Newark ~ j., and Al
phonSe Mcmahon (MC), USNR, of
st. Louis, Mo, All are widely known
in their respective fields, in civilian
as well rs military medical circles,
Lecturer Al London
Commander KesSler attached TO
the orthopedic service was medical
director from 1929 10 l94l, when he
entered active naval service, OF the
New jersey Rehabilitation Com
mission, He was assistant medical
director from 1920 TO 1929, He is
author OF two widely-used medical
textbooks, Accidental Injuries
and Rehabilitation OF the Grip
pie dand Disabled" He was Hun
terrain Lecturer at London In 1875
and has represented the United
States at numerous medical gath