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Show HTB1IK TO TIEUP DUTIES Lieutenant Colonel Arrives to Take Charge of Post Hospital. Lieutenant Colonel Eu?wio G Northing-ton, Northing-ton, medical corps, . A., who has been detailed to command the great reconstruction reconstruc-tion hospital to be established at Fort Douglas for the entire western department, depart-ment, arrived in Salt Lake last night from Amdrican Lake, Wash., -where he has been on duty with national army troops. The lieutenant colonel was accompanied by his wife and they stopped at the Hotel Utah last night. The medical commandant will go to Fort Douglas this morning and expects 10 find official orders there from Washington giving directions relative to ' procedure in the establishment of the reconstruction re-construction hospital. Orders already received at the post provide pro-vide that all of the permanent buildings at the fort, with exception of those assigned as-signed to the third war prison barracks, shall be turned over to the hospital, and one of the first steps in preparing for the big hospital will be a complete and detailed de-tailed survey of the buildings to determine what alterations, improvements, additions and other work of this nature will have to be done to render them serviceable and up to date as hospital units. It is prob-ablo prob-ablo that this will be the first work of tlie new medical commandant. Lieutenant Colonel Northington said last night thjit aside from orders received by him detailing him here to take charge, he knew but li: tie about the details of the proposed hospital and he expected to receive re-ceive more definite instructions later, Lieutenant Colonel Northington is an Alabaman by birth. Tie took his medical degree at Tulane university, Louisiana, in 1003 and was graduated from the army medical school in During the Span ish-American war he served as a private first in F company. Second Alabama infantry, in-fantry, and later in A company. First Texas infantry. He was commissioned a first lieutenant in the medical reserve corps in September, 190. and was commissioned com-missioned a first lieutenant in the medical corps of the regular army in March, 1911. He was promoted to captain in the regular regu-lar army organization in 1914 and later was advanced to the rank of major in the regular organization. He was given a temporary commission as lieutenant colonel col-onel in the national army after the United States entered the world war. |
