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Show SMEIT5 ARE OBDEJlffl TO FORI Will Be Given Treatment at Reconstruction Hos-pital Hos-pital at Post. Six oversena patients have been ordered or-dered sent from army general hospital No. 22, at Richmond, Va., to the army general hospital at Fort Douglas, for reconstruction re-construction treatment. This is the first detachment of returned . soldiers to be ordered to the local hospital, hos-pital, and the patients are expected to arrive here within a week. 1 A copy of the order directing that the patients he sent here was received at hospital headquarters yesterday, and directs di-rects that two Kurslcal, two medical, one orthopedic and one passed ease now be- . irix cared for in the hospital at Richmond Rich-mond be sent from that institution to the local hospital. No date Is mentioned in the order on which the patients are to be started for this hospital or when they will arrive, but it is expected that the i hospital in Richmond will act immediately immedi-ately upon receipt of the order and that the patients will be started on their way here within a few days. The order does not mention the patients pa-tients by name, but it is expected that further orders designating the soldiers by name will be received here before the patients arrive. It is understood that the men are originally from this district, in view of the fact that it is the announced policy of the department to send siclt and wounded soldiers from across the seas to reconstruction hospitals within a radius of 300 miles or more of their homes. Tlie first unit of the army general hospital hos-pital at Fort Douglas is almost in readiness readi-ness to receive patients. It will be In completed shape by the end of this week and cjuUI be used right now if the necessity neces-sity existed. |