Ogden Daily Standard | 1898-11-17 | Page 5 | The War Investigation

THE WAH WAR investigation washington nov IT 17 dr forward continued his testimony before the investigating vesti gating commission today concerning methods at montauk park where he was chief army surgeon he lie said that from the beginning to tha the end of the history of the general hospital at camp there was never a time when there were not from fifty to vacant beds many patients were sent away to hospitals in neighboring cities largely in response to public clamor the patients taken away were largely typhoid cases and were selected chiefly because it was believed not wise to allow ly ty deold cases to accumulate at Slon montauk another reason was the necessity of extending the hospital accommodations during tho the first thirty days lays of the history of the camp patients were treated and it would have been out of the question to take care of them all in the camp ho hospitals speaking of the nurses he lie said there was a considerable number of hospital corps men who had been iral nuJ in the j post hospitals before the female nurses arrived this was limited to training but it rendered the men much more efficient c been I 1 ent than they other otherwise wire would have