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Show MORE HOSPITALS ARE CALLED FOR Stream of Wounded Continues to Arrive at Northern France Hospitals. Great Lack of Efficient and Experienced Surgeons and Nurses Infections Numerous. London. Oct. 31, 5 a. m. The hospital hos-pital accommodations In -northern France are insufficient to cope with the number of wounded being received, re-ceived, according to a medical correspondent corre-spondent of the Times. Writing from Boulogne the conespomjent says: "The hospitals are full but the stream of wounded continues and will continue. The plain facts arc that the hospital accommodations In northern France are insufficient. Tho policy 0f shipping as many wounded as possible to England is being push cl to a dangerous extreme "There is a great and serious lack of efficient and experienced surgeons and nurses. A great majority of the wounds are caused by shrapnel They become infected quickly and demand surgical treatment of the most thorough character. With these eases time is a big factor. Tt is dangerous in most eases to subject the patient to a long trip to England. Eng-land. Antiseptic Surgery Needed. Many more hospitals must be established es-tablished In hotels, casinos and houses hou-ses behind the firing line. Surgeons of long experience must be sent. Finally Fi-nally antiseptic surgery must be prac-ticed prac-ticed and not aseptic surgery. The latter, which aims at cleanliness without with-out the use of germ killing substances, substan-ces, is useless where infected wounds are concerned Yet there are good reasons for believing be-lieving It to be wtdely practiced. Here is where surgeons of wide experience are needed rather than young fledglings. fledg-lings. The B8me holds true of numerous nu-merous delicate operation's. it Is equally necessary to have in the hospitals hos-pitals staffs of nurses who have had a three or four years' course of training." |