Show DISABLED I i YANKS ANK BEING H HURRIED I HOME HOM f FROM M N. N f FACE AN t No o Delay Is Countenanced ed Even If Records of the Soldiers Are Incomplete Declares Official Report r f n soldiers in France who are eligible to discharge from the service are being sent home as rapidly as transportation tion facilities will permit ac- ac carding to information received by Major Major Ma- Ma jor Fred Jorgensen adjutant general of Utah General Pershing has directed that no patient be held in France while there Is transportation home available the dispatch asserts No delay Is countenanced even If the soldiers soldiers' records are not complete as supplementary records s' s sare are made as asp p patients are receIved the communication tion sets forth Preference in shipment shipment ship ship- ment home o of wounded soldiers is given men who are disabled and slated for discharge from the service Men who are to remain in the regular army are in class A while those who are disabled disabled dis- dis and to be discharged are in class D. D MEN CLASSIFIED In all base hospitals boards are constituted constituted con con- which classify sick and wounded wIth respect to their probability probability proba- proba of discharge or retention in the service These boards submit weekly reports to the chief surgeon on delays in classification or evacuation of patients patients pa- pa from hospitals Disability cases are collected by class D hospital trains for transfer to hospitals at base ports and transportation to 10 the United States These men are assigned to outbound ships according to the naval r I ratings the number of cases r requiring quiring beds or dressings and men suffering fractures or mental ailments Care is taken to guard against injustices in the matter of treatment or transfer home and instructors are on duty at the base port hospitals to inform all men of their rights and privileges in connection connection tion with discharges TRANSFER OF PATIENTS The transfer of patients from hospitals hospitals hos- hos in the base sections is under the direction of the surgeon of the section who receives the notices of the sailings of vessels for America and allots the space and regulates the movements During the submarine warfare the notice no- no noI I tice of at sailings was necessarily short but it has increased now and the preparation of patients for transfer home was greatly developed The navy is cooperating b by having liason Hason medical officers at the ports with the result that the work of transferring the patients patients pa- pa home Is much improved and progressing in a satisfactory manner All soldiers who have undergone amputations are looked after In one section section of the hospital at Savenay with a staff of trainers and Instructors instructors tors and these yards are arc described as models in the care and rehabilitation of of wounded When this class of dis- dis aMed men Is transferred from a host ties ties- t pital for return home instructions for their help and care are given to those who will be responsible for their welfare welfare wel- wel fare until discharged |