The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 31, 1918, Page 2

co-track “Some the “F i ‘Unit,’ ee States Hospital Corps and of the Red. ” rei ie Wwoulun’t be an Amer window jean the wards cool in sival TODAY; HOSPITAL TOMORROW American Red Cross, ‘Aiding the Army Medical! Corps, Transforms a Desert- , 60 Race Track Into a 600 Be {Hospital for Gassed Soldiers, ' RRR KKK KEK KK * * % =A deserted race track some- * * Where int France, * A.eall to the American Red * Cross for 2 G00 bed hospital. * Army doctors and nurses be- * gin to receive our “gassed" and * wounded soldlers on the twenty- * fifth day after the site was se- * lected, ° * Knock-down hospital units, *& moter irueks and Red Cross and *& Medical Corps, workers * transformation of *& * * * Army achieve a mercy. 4a +44 + 4 ARR ERKR EK KKRKEKK To traaafarm a hayfleld “somewhere in France” into a G00 bed hospital for slightly wounded or gassed American soldiers took the American Red Cross ‘These give plenty of lig where in Fraue another ward, ee fospitalpwithout while double. tept ‘arm in winter, summe pu preeend % & place for everything and trained and willing Feat Cross and army Medical Sarin workers to ra it into oe he double canvas, ready to go “Over the Top.” the sturdy frame-work being bolted together. hte floors eiia'sides,come in peetions, we aing Ante’ “TEER COG PEER he rate:course, transforme Note n hospital, complete in every Saas * Cross turned the plant over to the Army Medical Corps,.which,. round frame-work. prtreert eds days into # 60 The Ainericam ‘Red eived 160. American,: mostly“ “gassed, cases, TY'URTCEt elie CVE TULL OP ter teed and enlisted men of the Army Medical Corps just, twenty-five days from: the moment the site—a'deseried racestrack —was selected by the Army medical men, On the twenty-fifth day the com- pleted plant was turned over to the Army Medical Corps; medical officers and Army nurses moved in and before night 160 slightly wounded and gassed men were safe in bed in the spotless wards, The new plant, thereafter, be- came a “half way station” for the less seriously injured and thus left the beds in other hospitals free for the badly wounded, The first suggestion from the Army that such a hospital would be useful caused the Red Cross headquarters to mobilize. its “hospital circus crews,” stationed at various points, and to re- quest’ from the Army Medical Corps long trains of its motor trucks to, be dispatched to various Red Cross warehouses. In each of the warehouses, awaiting just such an emergency call, v stored in knoc down form everything needed to ere tent hospital units of 200 beds. Frame- work, flooring, canvas, witfde foun. dation supports, all cut tos num- bered and packed with every screw, bolt and nut needed to combine them, were packed in groups ready to. be trucks, At the hayfield the parts needed. first, were on: tops of ;the, lond, while those/to-be set up ‘last: were at the bottom. One truck In each train of eighteen camions carried a complete operating rooth and equipment and its trailer was a traveling sterilizing room ready at a moment's notice to prepare in- struments. The Red Cross “circus crew”—so called because it transforms vacant fields ‘Into hospitals about as quickly as a circus gang gets the “big top” up on a city block, are picked men trained for the special job of putting up hos- pitals, taking them down and moving them to new positions, Each man is drilled for a special job, As soon as the pole men get their skeleton shacks bolted, canvas men put over the dou- ble tenting, floor men lay the sectional floors and window men put in: the sashes, Others string the electric light wiring and hang the drop lights, and a special group furnishes experts on equipping the kitchens, building the operating rooms, installing fumigating apparatus and setting up heat- ing stoves in the wards, Still others look after the er supply and sani- tury equipment, shower baths and tubs. In a few after the truck train starts from thé warehouse, the londed in’ proper order on motor American Red Cross is able to turn the finished plant;,over: to the Army. doctors and the nurses-and the hospital corps ‘men who fhake™-the beds, ligtit the fires, start the ‘sterilizers going and are ready to receive our wounded. These are “tent hospitals,” but they are by no means as temporary as that description would Ihdicate. They con- t of wards 20x60 feet, each contain- ing twenty-four beds. The wards are connected with each other and with the operating rooms and diet kitchens by covered passageways, The Boisso- neau type tents are double, with free air space between the, two canvases. This makes them cool in, summer and warm and dry fn cold) or rainy weather, ‘The framework to which the canvas is attached is sturdy and Fi Windows open jand clos Such structures will last without cial care for three: years: or ‘more. Their great advantage, “however, is, that they can be put & Quickly and therefore close to, the: front: Similar- ly the hospifal can be moved. with the troops it serves, whether they fiake an advance or ure forced to fall back. 'To - describe these structures, a brand-new gasoline-medical’ word has been coined?) They. are called .in France ‘“autochirs,” “the — hospitals that move on motor. trudks.”. ‘The “auto” is plain; the “ehir’ Is the first syllable of “the word ‘“‘chirurgical,” MODERN MIRACLES PERFORMED IN EDUCATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF CANADA’S SOLDIERS Over 800 in Toronto Are in Shops, Offices “and Factories Learning ‘Profitable Trades — Modern Appliances Place Them in Productive Class BY FREDERICK M. KERBY. (N .E, A. Staff Correspondent.) Toronto, Oont.—I talked today with @-man who has had a bullet through; his right lung, a dozen shrapnel wounds in his back, a smashed hip} and an arm injured so that be can] only lift ten pounds with it, | HE DOESN'T KNOW HE WAS| WOUNDED. Or, if he does, he is too | i | busy to think about it. He was busy doing « man’s work at a big lathe. He is one of those mod- ern miracles—a “reconstructed man’ turned ‘out by the depariment of sol- diers’ civil reestablishment. There are 300 of him in 60 shops, of- fices, factories and plants in Tornto. They are working beside whole men, | doing the same work, asking no favors | and receiving none, fitting themselves | to go back into the army of civil life with the same courage ant confidence which which they faced HUN bufets, | shells, gas and bayonets. Orthepaedic Center. } edie coater of | Toronto is the orthe| Canada. The vast majority men | who have had amputations. or sut-/ fered loss of function of muscles, | hands, fingers, ‘arms aid legs. are sent here to be fitted with new ap- pliances that will 1 their lost functions. schools and which they life, i So far, Toronto is the only city} where artificial limbs are manufactur. | ed for injured soldiers.. The tactory | is in a specially constructed building on’ the grounds of the Orthopaedic | Hospital in North Toronto. The hos-| pital is the home of. injured Canadian soldiers waiting to be fitted with, and learning to use, their artificial lim This. factory at the hospital is no’ only turning out-artificial limbs. but} training disabled soldie limb mak- | era, vie of these men has invented 2 new type of artificial arm, little short of miraculous. 4 It=is+ controlled principally shoulder muscles. A small backward movement of the | shdulder closes the fingers and brings! bp the forearm; a forward movement | lowers the-arm and opens the finge | The new arm is equipped with a “S: day hand” that looks like a hand. and, | with a glove on_ it, cannot be dis- tingunished as artificial; for practical | everyday use, however, a tool, or tool | holder, ‘is*screwed on... In the hooks of-which ‘this is composed anything from a pin to a sledge hammer can be} firmly grasped and used. | Special Appliances. H Of course, onlyy in the exceptiona: | case are such elaborate appliances ne-! Then they are trained in shops «for the job tor are best fitted in civil by the "WHAT THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT HAS DONE TO RECONSTRUCT DISABLED FIGHTERS n courses for 3,861 disabled sol- diers had been approved. There are now approximately 2,000 men being trained for 200 different occupations all over Can- | Up to April 30 re-educatior | ada. At the end of April, 531 had been graduated from voca- tional courses. In addition, 1,668 men were attending vocation-~ . The percentage of amputa- tion cases to total injuries small; and a great many of these are leg am- putations. ‘LITT al courses in the hospitals and sanatoriums, and evening in- struction was being afforded to 59 discharged men. | figures do not include a bedside occupational work. ~ These j | | | 2 Many times the stump of an arm is| almost as useful as a whole arm, I went to the factory of the Con-! solidated Toronto, | Optical Co. of. .E SUFFERERS OF WAR This little refugee was photographed at the Gare. de Lyons, Paris, standing guard . the arrival of his parents. Al over the family luggage until 1 refugees arriving at this sta- tion from theinvaded districts are cared for.by the: Bon acceuil, a French relief organization, aided by the American Red Cross, ! ers. of disabled men for training. lens grinding. a job anywhere, scarce. with a leg off, are among the best me- chanics in the shop. was a farmer, partment, Here | found men with artificial legs, or lyegs; men’who had been ‘gassed; The Oldest and Largest Bank inthis sectionof the State which supplies lenses, glasses, frames, every kind of optical material to 'retail- This concern has taken a number One man, with a leg off,.is learning He will be able to get because Germany used to furnish the world :with lenses before the war, and lens grinders are In the machine shop two men, each Both have been taken on the force er aed ,One The Russell Motor Car empany has established a vocational training de- where a irge class. of dis‘ ‘abled men are becoming machinists. |The company wants ‘cvery graduate. men with bullets through chest, arms several mild shell shock cases. Four hours a day they have practical work {in the machine shop; for four hours they go to Toronto University for lec- the old fashioned - spelling ot “surgi- cal.” fri ts iparticnthrly upt ‘for thé’ truck™and ifs trailer, which carry complete operating and steriliz- ing rooms on one trip. The -“autochir” erected in twenty: five days at this race track “some- where in France” is to be used prin- cipally for those cases Whorecan be evacuated in ten days or two weeks. Many on discharge will go back to the nearby front and thus avoid a long journey from a_ distant hospital. Those who need longer treatment or additional ‘convalescence are sent fur- ther South to the army or navy hos: ‘pitals with special facilities for han- dling each type of case. So satisfac. tory has this hospital proved that ihe Red Cross expects ‘to build additional units which will-double its capacity. The French officers who have vy ed this hospital, which grew like magic, comment often on the great change in the use of ‘this field. The old betting booths are filled with bales of hospital supplies, The little thatched* root shicl- ters where bettors met have been trans- formed into a smoking _ pavilion, The names of the horsés are washed off the betting board, but, as the courteous visitors . punningly point out, the course never had on It more real “thoroughbreds” ‘than it has to- day! tures, work in mechanical drawing, reading blue prints, and so on. Prac- tically all will be earning, when they graduate, more than they ‘did in civil ite before joining the army. Sales Course. 1 ‘watched another busy class of young: men in the shops of the bur- rougns Adding ‘Machine Company, learning to repair adding. machines. When they conclude the three-month | course, everyone is guaranteed a job with the companyy, which cannot get enough mechanics. They will start at $20 a week, and have an opportunity to becomesinspectors and salesmen at much higher salaries. “A salesman’s value is from the next up,” one put it. What these men are doing is what men jall over-the Dominion are doing. An organization ig being built that wih salvage more than 95-per cent of war's waste in injured men, and put them back ‘into industries where they can compete on equal terms with men who have not so suffered. “We aré creatutes: of* habit. We succeed or'we fail as wé acquire good habits or bad ones; and we acquire good habits as easily as bad ones. Mos people don’t bélieve this. Only those who find out succeed in life.” : —Herbert Spencer. There is no better. hab- it that can be acquired than the good habit: of saving a definite amount of your earnings regu- larly. Open a Savings Ac- count‘ at 4% * compound ‘ interest in this bank. (By Newspaper Enterprise hewn) London, July 31.~How a woman visited the front in a motor car dis- guised in,a British officer's uniform— probably the only time in the war this was ever accomplished—was told dur- ing the divorce hearing of Lieut, Wil- Mam Myers, who is suing his wife on the ground of misconduct with two army officers, The couple deparitea in 1914, when Myers joined the army. On March 3, 1915, she wrote him as follows: “You will be surprised to hear that I have been in the thick of the fight- ing. When I see you I will tell you some of my experiences. At any rate, you can say your mad wife went to the firing line before you did. I don’t know how I did it, but I did it, and I believe I was the first woman- to do it.” On the stand ‘Mrs. Myers testified that she had gone to France twice. Her ‘testimony follows: “Were you disguised as a man?” “I was.” (By Newspaper Enterprise Ass’n.) | London, July 31.—England is no better off in the matter of the high cost of living than America. House- wives are complaining bitterly that they are charged enormous prices for fruit and vegetables, It costs more to live in London than in any city in America. Fancy prices are demanded for the com- monest vegetables, and profiteering extends to the retail, as well as to the wholesale stores. Here is a list of the prices being paid for vegetables in American money: Cabbage, Ib... 1" 2e Cauliflower, Ib .. 7. . 40c Broad béar . Le 18¢ 16c . 12¢ » 25e 25c 50c T5e Peas, 1b Spinach, Lettuce, Ib . Carrots, bunch . Cucumbers, each ...... Tomatoes, lb . Mushrooms, Ib . Rhubarb, bundle ....... 40c Oranges, each .... 16¢ The retailers declare ihe fault is not théirs; that they are forced to charge high prices because they pay them. To overcome for the workingman the high cost of living, the govern- ment food ministry has opened a na-j tional restaurant on: New Bridge street, near Ludgate Hill station, for | much less than they can be obtained in any American or English saee | ant. The daily menus consist of the fol- lowing: Soup, 4 cents; fish, 8 and 12 ‘cents; roast’ meat, 8 and 12 cents; we en- trees, § and 12 cents; vegetables, 4 cents; desserts, 6 and 8 cents; bread, 1 cent; coffer ts. WIFE OF ‘A SOLDIER 1s THE FIRST OF HER SE TO DO geummmcnnipenar sare: “At a place called the Chateau.” “Where innumerable officers were billeted?” “Yes, There was another woman there.” “She thought you were a man, I suppose?” “No; she didn't,” “How did you come to go to the fir- ing line?” “Two officers came up one day and commandeered my motor to go up to the front. I had heard that comman- deered cars were seldom recovered, so I told them if they took’ the cat they would have to take mie, too. “Accordingly, I‘drove, acting under the direction of the officers, AH L did by way of disguise was to slip off my skirt, beneath which I wore breeches and top boots.” A letter written by one of the of- ficers named by Myers tO his ‘wife showed that Mrs. Myers was ‘only two hours by motor from the officer’s sta- tion at the front, and that she posed as his wife while her ‘husband: wee “Where did you Sleep?” in’a training camp in England. A FOUR COURSE DINNER FOR 35 CENTS FOOD MINISTRY ‘OF ENGLAND ‘SHOWS “How IT is DONE Thus a person can obtain a meal including soup, fish, roast meat, a veg- etable, a dessert and ¢offee, for’ 35 cents. The food is excellently cooked all the baking and roasting being done by electricity. Accommodation is pro- vided for 170 people at a sitting and every chair is occupied four or five times a day. 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