The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-07-10

SAYS RHEUMATIC.
FEVER PATIENTS
MAY BE SENT HERE
FROM ENTIRE u. 5.

49, - Staks "a AeAtS 0tt ANaNt
ships, far flung war ouiposts such
as BouganviIlc, and in CANA and
Nicaragua Key West seems a
very comfortable duty 10 the new
commanding officer OF the Naval
Hospital, Capt. Bruce Bradley.
USN.
Capt. Bradley who replaced
Capt. o. a. Smith las, Tuesday.
Just spent one and enc half wears
as executive officer Of the 1900
bed Naval Hospital at Bethesda.
Maryland. the nations leading
naval hospital.
Though Key West Naval Hos
oital has only PES active beds. a
large number of top COMPRESSION
n and Washington leaders come
here during the winter for their
convalesenec or check-ups.
Navy men suffering with rhcu-
matte fever arc also expected 10
be sent 30 the Key West Naval
hospital from all over the nation
! because of the excellent china.
.ic conditions" here. Capt. Brad
ley said. This program is AT pres
mt under consideration in Wash.
ington. II has been found that
the men do not recover as rapidly
in northern Naval hospitals rs
hey would in Key Vests winter
climate.
The new commanding officer
sinds the Key West hospital VERY
adequate. compact web run and
sasy 10 maintain.
He said that he is pleased not
only with his naval staff of rs
doctors. % nurses. dentist four
medical service corpsmen, and
chaplain. but with the civilian
staff as well.
/ Capt Bradley. interviewed IN
his office today. found the
breezes Of Key West refreshing.
/ This IS cool compared Is Mica
Cau2s and some other places /
have served, he sand.
I Tbs Captain drove down from
his home in Arlington. Va. with
/ bis wife and two children. Betsy.
aged 10 win enter her sophomore
year at Wellesley next fall. Bruce.
Jr., will attend Key West high
school, the Captain said.
4 graduate OF the University Of
Virginia Medical school i'm 1926.
Captain Bradley entered the
Navy that year. informed at the
s Chelsea Naval Hospital in Massa-
/ chusCttS, He went with the 18Th
Marine Regiment to Nicaragua in
1927 20 1923. He served on the
USS Rochester out OF Shanghai
and the USS Mindanao out OF
Z Canton from 1888 TO 1886.
In World War II. Captain Brad
ley was senior medical officer nj
/ an advanced naval base. at Bong
/ awhile. In charge OF the 500 bud
hospital Of Quonsct huts, he had
much to do with controlling ma
laria so widely prevalent when
he arrived IN 1913.
Admiral Halsey has declared
that Bouganville was the first Pa
cific base TO get malaria under
control Before that it had laid
low MANY casualties. as difficult
10 treat as the men on the island
who were wounded by air bomb
I ing attacks and even artillery.
/ Mosquito control was brough,
about by drainage and lowering
the water table.
I A doctor of internal medicine.
Capt. Bradley said he has had his
share Of emergency surgery. On
ships At sea he has had to ask
the skipper 70 change the direr-
ton Of the vessel while he tried 10
operate on an emergency ap-
pcndicitis case.
/ At Bouganville and at Finchav-
| en- Naval Hospital in New Gum.
ca. he has known what it was 10
build up an adequate hospital cs-
tablishment.
Before his duty as Executive
officer Of Bethesda Naval Hosp.
tai, Capt Bradley held the same
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