Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-01-14 | Page 2 | Forty per Cent of the Wounded Die

FORTY PER CENT OF THE WOUNDED DIE LONDON. Jan. 13, '5:57 p. m. -As many as 1000 injured soldiers sometimes land in Southampton in -one day, declared Pr. , Howard N. Beal of Worcester, Mass., chief of the hospital at Paignton, England, Eng-land, established by the American Women's Wom-en's War Relief fund. Dr. Beal spoke today at a meeting held here in the interest in-terest of the institution. The duchess of Marlborough presided. Dr. Beal has applied for the services of an American pathologist. Dr. Beal cited the mortality in the bos-pitals bos-pitals in the vicinity of Dunkirk, "where the worst cases have been taken, as 40 per cent. Among tbe injured recently ! received at the Paignton hospital, he said, j was a boy of 19. who had fifty shrapnel wounds in his back and bot h of whose arms had been cut by fragments of shells.