Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-07-31 | Page 2 | Great Army Hospital for Fort Douglas Modern Institution Will Soon be Built Restore Health and Teach Men Trades

Great Army I for Fort Douglas M dern Institution Will Soon He Built Restore Health and Teach Men Trades Trades' B BIRDSEYE view of one one 6 of the e g great eat convalescent ent reconstruction on hospitals which will be built in each ach of the sixteen military districts of the country Each will accommodate a thousand wounded soldiers S r sr it i tL fA fArs t 7 r r's N 4 5 c ft 7 y xe x 14 c 4 5 5 ty 1 S k c 3 p- p s 4 I i A f II 4 I a a Wounded Soldiers to Enter Hospital Nearest rest 1 Homes I T DOUGLAS DOUGLA Is to have one of I FT sixteen great convalescent and r reconstruction hospitals for tor American n soldiers to be erected In each of the military districts of the country which according to plans just completed by Major H. H Brooks Brook Price architect of the division of physical re reconstruction reconstruction re- re construction will be the most complete and modern of such institutions Major Brooks Brooks' reconstruction hospital designs one of which is pictured herein here here- in and which is of the type type likely to tobe tobe tobe be erected at the local army post call for a group of buildings bull buil lings to accommodate date 1000 beds but extensions can I easily be made to Increase the Capacity caI capacity ca ca- to beds or more moret According According Accord Accord- ing to word from Washington work on I the sixteen hospitals is to start start- soon The purpose of building the hospitals in each of the sixteen military districts is to bring home influence to bear on the wounded soldiers as soon soon as a's as p pos s sible The disabled heroes are not to tobe tobe tobe be isolated In strange corners of the I country each is to be sent to the hospital hos hos- I pital nearest his home This de dece decentralization ri- ri n will mean first that the J wounded mans man's family and add friends can J visit him It will mean too that he I will receive not only the best possible 1 I treatment for fot his Injuries but will be beI restored d in spirit and given a renewed grip on life I The advantages of f Major Maor Brooks Brooks' plan over other types of general h hospitals hos for tor reconstruction are based on its compactness which will give In Increased Increased increased In- In creased efficiency and facility of ad ad- ad ministration Moreover it will costle cost costless costless le less s to build require less acreage and involve fewer steps In communication Every hospital will be fitted to the last detail for forthe the extended treatment of every known case of disability caused by wounds gas liquid fire and disease After he has he-has has been fixed up physically physical physical- ly the disabled soldier will go direct Into the curative shop shops shop and there will be taught the trade he Is best able to tackle The Canadian experience has been that very often these disabled disabled dis dis- men can m make ke more m money ney now I than they were earning before the thew w war r 1