Show HOSPITAL FACILITIES IN NORTH FRANCE INSUffiCIENT Wounds From S Shrapnel Require Require Require Re Re- I quire Attention at Earliest Earliest Earli Earli- est Moment LONDON Oct 31 5 a a. a m. m Thc m.-Thc The hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital accommodations in northern Franco France are arc insufficient to copo cope with the number of wounded being received according according ac ac- ac cording cordin to a medical corre correspondent of tho the Times rimes Writing from Boulogne no the correspondent says Tho The hospitals are full but the stream of wounded continues and will continue The plain facts are that the tho hospital accommodations in northern France are aro insufficient Tho rho policy of shi shipping inn as man wounded as possible to En England Jand is being push pushed cd to a dan dangerous danger danger- er Otis ous extreme There is a creat great and gild serious lack of efficient and an experienced surgeons sur and nur nurses es A great reat majority of the tM woun wounds s are aro caused d by shrapnel They become infected quickly aud and demand Surgical cal treatment o of tho most thorough thorough thor thor- ough h character With these cases time timo is a bi big factor It is dangerous in most cases to o subject the patient to a long trip to En England land Many Ian more hospitals mu must t be established li bcd in n hotels casinos and houses honses behind behind behind be be- hind the thin firing line linc Surgeons of lon long experience must be bo sent F Finally antiseptic anti antiseptic septic surgery must roust be pr practiced and not aseptic sur surgery er The latter which aims at cleanliness without the use of ofer germ er 11 killing substances is u useless wh where re infected wounds aro arc concerned Yet there are good reasons for be boo believing lieving jc in it to be widely practiced Here IB is where sur surgeons eons of wide c experience are needed rather than oun young fledglings The same sarno holds truo o or numerous cato Cate operations It is equally necessary sary nary to havo have in the hospitals staffs tat of ot nurses S who have had bad a throe or four years rears course coure of training |