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Show Conditions at Hospital Highly Commended by Secretary of War After an inspection trip to a base hospital, Sec'y of War Baker made the following reply to an inquiry concerning hospital conditions: "With Sergt. Gen. Gorgas and Dr. Hornsby I made this morning a personal per-sonal inspection of the entire base hospital at Camp Meade. The hospital hos-pital is very large, fully equipped with scientific laboratories and facilities, fa-cilities, has an adequate number of trained nurses under the supervision supervi-sion of a skilled superintendent; Its medical and surgical staffs are made up of competent men filled with enthusiasm en-thusiasm for their work. The hospital hos-pital throughout is clean and well cared for; there was an abundance of clean linen a plentiful supply of well-prepared and appetizing food, and every evidence of considerate attention at-tention to the patients was manifest. I talked with a large number of the patients, none of whom knew who I was, and found them cheerful and without a single complaint as to their treatment or comfort. Dr. Hornsby told me at the conclusion of our inspection that the base hospitals hos-pitals in the cantonments throughout the country were substantially like the one we visited this morning. It was a most reassuring visit. I have long been interested in hospitals, an-i If I were to have personal illness which required hospital treatment T should be perfectly content to be sick in the base hospital at Camp Meade, satisfied that I would receive the attention necessary and under comfortable conditions." |