Show Men Men Will HaUe Have Good God Food and nd Quarters Quarter Nat Nation s FAMOUS PHYSICIANS ENGAGED TO KEEP FIGHTERS WELL Modern Methods of Sanitation Sanitation Sanitation Sanita- Sanita tion and Inoculation r r T rAre Are Utilized Utilize r By Edward A. A Evans Staff Correspondent of The Telegram T. T RILEY Kan Oct 13 There There must not be and there will wUl not b be any needless needle s sacrifice of ot American Jives in this war That is the message messa e which Colonel OW We N. N Bisham commander of ot the country's largest training camp tor lor army medical officers has asked meto meto me meto to convey to tho the mothers and fathers and wives of ot our soldiers At the medical officers officers' camp nere 1100 doctors gathered from all parts of ot the country are learning to protect fighting men from disease Similar ar camps campt are in operation at Ft Ogle Ogle- O le- le thorpe Ga and Ft Benjamin Harrison lIar lIar- rison Ind In past wars for tor each man killed by the enemy five thc more have bave been killed by disease army statistics show For kor each cach man disabled by wounds four have bave been heen disabled by sickness Memory of t the tho scandalous rate at which American soldiers were wee wiped nut out by disease In the Spanish war is still fresh resh Is disease to be b a more dangerous I than the kaisers kaiser's army in this 1 war r That's what I t came to Ft Riley RUey to find tind out 1 I 1 am convinced that thanks to modern mod mod- fr ern methods of ot Inoculation and to the sanitary precautions which the physicians clans here are being ta taught to take Americas America's J army will wUl be e the most therefore healthful therefore the most effi- effi that elent-that the world ever has known Most of ot the doctors here had risen high l In practice Their average age I. I IB is 40 0 years Nto a few are gray haired 1 They have left their homes their offices and their automobiles and pome Ime here to live as ordinary soldiers in tn order that they may learn how to 1 cl the army anny In good health Among them arc are such men as Major Charles S. S Williamson professor of ot medicine at the University of ot Illinois Major Jajor Ralph Webster professor of ot medicine at Rush medical college and c gin lP Frederick R. R GIC Green n of ot Chicago I secre secretary tary of triG council on health and public Instruction of ot the tho American Medical association Colonel Bispham and others in cha charge e of the camp are ara officers of the tho regular army Those dignified doctors learn leam to cook their own meals pitch their own tents and Ind make their own beds They learn to march lon long distances and to ride rido longer loner distances on horseback They live I the same routine and go through the same physical exercises that other soldiers go 0 through They do all these things to gain a perfect understanding of ot the life lite of ot the themen themen themen men for whom they are to care As an Incidental result many doctors are ara second youth When hen I came cante here one prominent Chicago physician told me I r weighed pounds and I never walked any any- where Now Im I'm trained down to and I think nothing of ot a ten mile march But the process I Is hard I was convinced convInced convinced con con- vinced of that when I saw raw stout middle middle middle mid mid- dle aged doctors struggling to go through exercises that are difficult for tor younger men Every er sty day means a ft series of ot lectures by medical Instructors At these lecture lee lee- ture turee held in outdoor classrooms the physicians skylark and chatter like youthful students But a a. great reat and andee ande ee serious e lous purpose Is evident behin their behind their tun Th They y will scatter scat from this camp to th th the many many training camps camps' for soldiers Later Lter ter most of ot them may serve In Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope Great stress lItres T i found Is put upon in- in against disease Enlisted men of the army anny medical service also train trains j at Ft at-Ft ft L nile Riley and the m medical officers take care of ot the soldiers now In camp When a new soldier Is b received he heis Is immediately vaccinated against ty typhoid ty- ty fever paratyphoid old and smallpox the three diseases which used to be most feared by the army As a result of ot this vaccination there is 1 now literally no typhoid In the army I was told Smallpox Is exceedingly exceed exceed- glY rare I was given gI-en the toll following owing figures as an Illustration of ot the suc- suc s ot th the fight tight against typhoid I the no Spanish war when no men meni I Ii i Inoculated against typhoid there there i w o aero 1 1729 cases and deaths In one division of ot about m men n recently I of Mexican border there was only cas case and anel not one death amon among f men all of whom had been en in in- in uch credit for this wonderful recq rec- rec q a also Is la gIven to better better methods of ot camp amp sanitation ml lIon This D a mn ng a a medical medi cal eal officers officers' camp is r regarded as a sanitary sanitary san san- model and so I found it I was 38 particularly Interested In the fight tight the n fly called because It r uy's kitchen so kitchen so e is-in is charge of Mess Se Sergeant Kelly Kelly- ig 1 In tn the center of ot the camp From I BOO to 1100 loo soldiers are fed 1 there at each ca b meal I I. saw Just four tour rutS flies In K Kellys Kelly's lys ly's kitchen and and I made a careful Inspection tion although tion-although although the kitchen Is open to th the four winds and Is unscreened Imagine that housewives Each mess house bouse in the tho camp has four garbage cans cans outside Its Us floor About some of ot these cans I couldn't find one single fly l There are stables here for hundreds of r mules and horses borses And these stables are practically Liberal use of or crude oil daubed on garbage cans and sprinkled on the ground about the camp kitchens Is re responsible responsible re- re for part of ot the success of or the fight on the fly fly- For the other part scrupulous cleanliness Is is thanked is All An about the camp are incinerators Incinerator built bunt of ot stone under scientific principles principles i ples which are being tau taught ht to the medical officers Some of or these In- In are large lare enough to turn burn I tons of ot refuse And into them goes goes' every bit of ot ruth oath I and even every cigarette stub and scrap of ot paper picked up about the camp to be purified by fire tire and re reduced reduced reduced re- re to ashes I peered nito great reat refrigerators which seemed almost paint painfully clean their wooden sides scrubbed white Floors were kept equally spotless Inthe In Inthe Inthe the storehouses can and boxes of food tood were ere stacked In exact order orae Its It's evident to me that living conditions conditions conditions condi condi- in the training camps are ara going to be as good as or even better than the they are in the soldiers' soldiers homes home Mothers fathers and wives may rest assured that their fighting men will not have to suffer privations and needless needle need need- less le discomforts that their health will willbe willbe willbe be safeguarded to the fullest extent tent |