Iron County Record | 1922-02-03 | Page 3 | Ex-Service Men's Hospital

i . i EX-SERVICE MEN'S HOSPITAL Dr. Albert Wehenkel Heads Detroit Institution All Employees Have Been In Service. The only hospital In tho country operated by ex-scrvlce men for the - benefit of cx-serv- BrV ice men has been MKStX, opened nt Camp HlfA Custer, Mich. It BSfiafi$!i ,s th0 ncw Koosc fR4,ICTfl vcU American I.e-!i I.e-!i x-' s K'on hospltnl con- x$$0feK1 vcrtcd from n f0l )Jpiij m e r community iXK'-'i house nt Cnmp mvtotrf CuBternnd turned k. iw over to tho Le- ftft XS K'-on ,,y tllc stn,e MBBftV && Tiic superintendent superintend-ent Is Dr. Albert M. Wehenkel, of Detroit, Mich . Dedicated by Mnrshnl Foch, the hospital hos-pital opened Its doors to former service men of Michigan suffering from tuberculosis. tuber-culosis. Each doctor, nurso and employee em-ployee nt the Institution has been In some brnnch of tho government service. serv-ice. Each patient Is given a separate room, tastefully decorated nnd supplied sup-plied with, running water. They nre kept at the hospital until their case has been pronounced "arrested" and then aro placed Immediately In vocational voca-tional training to prevent n period of Idleness. Doctor Wehenkel has been tuberculosis tuber-culosis expert for tho Detroit bonrd of health for seven years. He saw two years of army medical .service during the war.