Identifier: 14230580R.nlm.nih.gov
Title: Base Hospital No. 9, A.E.F. : a history of the work of the New York hospital unit during two years of active service
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Brown, Raymond Shiland, author
Subjects: United States. Army. Base Hospital No. 9 Hospitals, Military World War I
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Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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or Gibson. He was ordered to the Statesto take up his work at the New York Hospital and atthe Cornell Medical School where he became head ofthe Department of Surgery. His going was keenlyfelt by all. Others of our number within a few weekswere sent to other posts. Major Pool went to Evacua-tion Hospital No. i, Captain Lee went to assist Col.Finney and to direct the organization of transfusionfor the A. E. P., and Major Elser went to the CentralLaboratories at Dijon. Others of our number wereaway for weeks at a time. Captain Erskine, Lieuten-ants Adair and Dineen were at Ris Orangis; LieutenantsBoiling, Stephens, and Schrock were at Noyon, andDugdale and Echeverria were at Soissons. On March 31st, 1918, the first group of woundedpatients came in on a train from the Montdidier sec-tion. From this time on until the signing of thearmistice, wounded came in at frequent intervals. Thenumber became larger and larger until the first part ofAugust, when it became obvious that more provision 63
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BASE HOSPITAL NO. 9, A. E. F. 65 must be made to house them. Let me here describe theadmission of patients into the hospital. Patients came from the front in hospital trains.These trains were simply handsome hospitals onwheels. They could accommodate about 350 stretchercases or 500 w^alking cases. Each coach had 36 cotshung in threes one above the other. When desired thetop cot could be slung flat to the side of the coach, thesecond cot sHpped down and made a back to the lowercot, thus forming a sofa or lounge. The space betweenthe rows of cots was very wide—sufficient to allow astretcher to pass with ease. The train carried a watersupply of 2835 gallons, apart from the drinking watercarried in filters. Electric fans changed the air com-pletely when the train was in motion. The heatingwas entirely independent of the engine. There werebathrooms, douches, lavatories, an operating room, apharmacy, a kitchen, and supply rooms. So completewas the provision department that 500 persons cou

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