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Show 1 1 VSfflflL First Opened in City for Amer- ican Soldiers Others for Officers. LIVERPOOL, Fob. 20. (Correspon-vlcnco (Correspon-vlcnco of the Associated Proas.) Tho first hospitnl for American soldiers In Great Britain lias just been opened m Liverpool. All other hospitals thus far I opened in tho British Isles have been I for American officers. The Liverpool i hospital is known as American Red Cross military hospital No. -i and is situated in the Mossley hill district, j the most fashionable residential scc-H! scc-H! tion about threo miles from the down-town down-town business ppart of tho city. Al-fl, Al-fl, ready many American soldiers occupy fl its cheerful wards and many others in the convalescent stage, clad in hospl-tnl hospl-tnl palo blue aro walking about the fl spacious grounds. B The hospital proper occupies Mos- flj f'oy gnjigf- tho former home of Dr. Hj Edmund Knowlcs Muspratt, a noted H'J authority on chemistry and ono of Liv-H Liv-H erpool's leading citizens, who when he fl heard that tho Americans wanted it Hj gladly turned It over to them. It oc-H oc-H cuples tho highest elevation in tho Hj city. A typical old r.othlc style English H) town house, it stands in tho center of seven acres of beautiful grounds, tho flowor gardens of which are rapidly H1 being converted into plots for raising H vegetables. An American flag, flying from tho tall staff in front of tho grounds can be seen a great distance, and assists visitors to find the place. Michigan Officer at Head. The head of the hospital is Major Udo J. Wile, medical officers reserve corps, United States army, who is a member of the faculty of tho Univer-slty Univer-slty of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Major Wile camo here last November and fl has worked untiringly to outfit the In-i In-i stitution. In this he has been assist-fl assist-fl ed by Joseph R. Morris of Chicago, representing tho American Red Cross. Tho major's staff consists of fivo of- fleers three captains and two lleu-Hj lleu-Hj tenants. The personnel of the place includes ten American Red Cross nurses, twelve sergeants and twenty privates, Miss Marlon Weller, a grad-uate grad-uate of tho Now York hospital, is chief nurse. Major Wile is proud of tho fact that fl thirty-four days after Mossley House fl was taken over it was fully equipped fl American hospital ready for its first patients. Today it has 150 beds with fl room for expansion to S26 beds. The institution is equipped throughout on tho American plan. This especially is true of the hot water heating plant and of the plumbing and electrical in-1 in-1 stallations, all of which work was fa-cllitated fa-cllitated largely through the efforts of the British Royal Engineers who help-cd help-cd draw up the plans and put them into execution in these days of labor shortage. Ten Wards for Soldiers. ' The hospital now has ten wards for soldiers, two small officers wards and an operating room, besides tho admin -istrativo offices. It boasts two ambu-lances ambu-lances of the latest type, one given by Richard Pearce, an American resident in Liverpool and the second by an anonymous donor. About 200 yards from the hospital arc building two isolation wards, each , designed to accomodate 100 contagious i disease patients. These are ono story structures of brick and concrete. Each will have four ten-bed wards with two small wards in the center for officers. - A. feature will be discharge rooms where outgoing patients can don their fl new garments. |