Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-01-25 | Page 9 | Surgeon General before Senate

jSURGEON GENERAL BEFORE SENATE V Gorgas Tells of Health Conditions Con-ditions in Various U. S. Army Camps. SITES WELL SELECTED Drainage and Care Generally Good, But Hospital Buildings Should Be Completed First. WASHINGTON. Jan. 25. Calling Surgeon General Gorgas to tell of health conditions at the army camps, the senate military committee today resumed its general war inquiry. Senator Chamberlain asked him to give a general statement regarding conditions at camps ho personally inspected. in-spected. "They wore in general the same," General Gorgas replied. "The camp sites generally were well selected. I think the drainage and care of the camps generally was good, certainly considering the character of untrained troops in them. As a general rule I think the sanitary conditions of the camps were good." . General Gorgas said that not more than five men should be housed in the 16-bylG tents used In national guard camps, but that ho had seen as high as nine living in one tent and had reports re-ports of twelve. Such overcrowding) for any length of time was dangerous, j he said, and partially responsible for disease. It was brought out through questioning question-ing by Senator McKellar that the hospitals hos-pitals usually wore the last buildings finished at a now camp. General Gorgas Gor-gas said he believed they should be the first.