Show FORI DOUGLAS LAS FINE f V V V V SITE FOR HOSPITAL f V Maje Maj Egan Declares It Is an Excellent Place for Sick V Soldiers to Convalesce V V r It has been reported that most of oC the r soldiers rs Invalided nv home from Crom the Phil Phil- i i sv uld be sent to Fort Douglas to Col H. H O. O Heistand As- As stant General Adjutant of oC the Army Tji f. f s Wa Washington h will stop In Salt Lake on his way to the Philippines wt while here will make an Inspection f t Douglas with a view to report- report ng upon upon ion Its Us climatic condition condition- and ac- ac when he reaches teaches the V islands V X MaJ Maj R 11 P. P Egan surgeon at the fort Cort V today V As As to climatic conditions Fort Doug- Doug V V r Vlas V s has all aU that Js is desirable There Is noV no V 1 better post that I know know of to which soldiers soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers could be brought from the islands when suffering from chronic diseases such as dysentery and dhoble itch Of Ot the large number suffering from these diseases that came here with the Eighteenth Eighteenth Eighteenth Eight Eight- Infantry nearly all have been returned to duty While Thile this climate Is temperate It Is very bracing much more so than the climate of oC Arizona and New Mexico al although although although al- al though these last mentioned places are much better for all lung troubles than our present situation But for all other diseases has a decided advantage advantage ad ad- advantage vantage over posts in those Territories Our hospital at present will accommodate accommodate accommodate only thirty patients but It Is Isso Isso isso so constructed that a n. wing can be added to the main building that will accommOdate accommodate accommodate date thirty more In fact tact we have the basis of oC a fine regimental post and all ali that Is needed Is more Improvements V and additions MaJ Egan was was' stationed In the Antilles Antilles An An- tilles titles for years years He said that that- he experienced experienced Inconvenience no-Inconvenience in leaving the mild climate there and coming here bere last December V V V |