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Show "VraRKDF MILITARY HOSPITAL PRAISED j Care of Patients at Fort ! Given Into Competent Hands, Doctor Says. Physicians, Nurses and Attendants At-tendants Know Businssv Is Declaration. I )epit e army rculat ions post ti velv i orbhldl m,' tin- remm al of sick soldiers lroin ; military hospital during, the period uf Hieir illness, and the t'act that r ho provisions of these regulations! have ben eaHcl to publie attention I tlii-ougdi t lie press, pa rents of st intent army itaiuinL; corps men in the isolation isola-tion hospital at Fort Douglas suffering t coin in r'luen?.;, i-ont i nne to importune the military authorities daily for permission per-mission t c; remove their ;-oiis to t heir homes. i Permission to do this cannot be iveii b-' the military authorities or by nny-onc nny-onc eUi here, and the officers are anxious anx-ious that the public should fully realize and understand this. ' A soiuicr who is sick is under the control or the government, gov-ernment, and the government requires that lie lie placed in a military hospital nnd eared for in such a place until the medical officer or officers attending In m pronounce hi ui well ami no longer a sick risk to the government, ' -' said one of the officers at Fort Douglas yesterday. yes-terday. ''Then, aud then only, can he be permitted to be removed from the military hospital. ' ' It is explained that the oilly way in who It a sick sobiier'cHii be moved from a mili:arv hospital is by a special order of the adjutant general of the army. ' ' Without such an order any commanding com-manding officer of a military hospital is absolutely powerless to permit a patient; pa-tient; to be removed from his hospitn I until thab soldier is pronounced well by the at tending medical officer nd qualified for discharge, J ' the officer said. Well Equipped Staff. ' 1 Why pti rents should desi re to remove re-move influenza patients front the hospital hos-pital tit their homes isn 't quite apparent,' appar-ent,' ' tho army man con tin tied. "To anyone who has been through the hospital hos-pital at I'ort Douglas it is difficult to understand Svhv ;i nyone should desire to remove, a patient from-it to home or any other place before he is well. Tho hospitaj at the local post is one of the I est equipped and conducted institutions, institu-tions, either military or private, that ca n be found anywhere. The govern- i ment has spared nothing in making the lof-ai hospital one that is a credit to the government of the United States, and , one where the sick soldiers of Uncle : 8am tan and do receive the best modi- ; ca I, nursing and every other care and attention that can be given. j "The local hospital 'is clean, airy and comfortable in every detail of its ar-raugemont ar-raugemont and equipment. Patients receive re-ceive the const a nt personal attention of experienced merlieal officers, trained nurses ami hospital corps men. "It was particularly fortunate in the local influenza situation that it found the local hospital, which is being prepared pre-pared as a reconstruction hospital for returned soldiers from Prance, with a ; staff of more than fifteen of high-standing and long experience on hand to take ! care of the steady flow of patients which has come from the student army training corps. I "hi addition to this staff, there was 1 on hand about fifty-five graduate i nurses, every one of whom has graduated grad-uated from a recognized hospital of the i countrv, and who entered the army i service fully equipped to perform the ! labor of devdion which they have so I fnitb.fuUv performed since the epidemic struck the military organisations here. On Constant Duty; "Dav and night there are doctors and nurses on constant duty at the post hospital. There is a full force on duty j-at each ward every hour of the day, 'and each and cverv patient is under the constant watchful eyes of doctors and nurses. Not a change in a patient 's condition can come day or night but it is noted and given prompt attention. "In a private hospital or at home a patient sick enough to need the attention atten-tion of a special nurse has to pav front, $rir to $o0 a week for her services to get one. In the army hospital he is given a special nurse, who devotes her entire time to him, if his illness is such as to call for it. "Tho patients are fed as sick people should be fed. on the best of food, especially espe-cially prepared in clean, well equipped diet kitchens, hv cooks who have been cspceiallv trained in the art of preparing prepar-ing hospital food and sick 'diets. The patients get all the food that common ense aiuf medical science dictates they should have for their physical good. There if no 'dinting in the commissary.. There is plenty of good, wholesome food prepared for " everyone, and everyone Tcts all that his requirements demand.: " " Kvo'vth'.ng that should be done in tho care' and "treatment of patients at j the Port I ouglas hospitaj is beiug , done. ' 1 |