A history of United States Army Base Hospital No. 36 (Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery Unit) organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917 (1922) (14779606905)

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Title: A history of United States Army Base Hospital No. 36 (Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery Unit) organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Cooper, Alice Evelyn, ed Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery
Subjects: United States. Army. Base hospital no. 36, Vittel, France
Publisher: (Detroit)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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and prepared by all necessary construc-tive surgery the soldiers who were fast assembling in France for the great American effort.Before the Amex forces had begun concerted battle with the enemy, French soldiers from theVerdun and Lorraine fronts and English wounded from Champagne were cared for in twoof the largest hospitals, 1,461 Allied patients being received at the Base. During the big German push at Chateau-Thierry and during the great American counterdrives at St. Mihiel and in the Argonne, Vittel was used as an Evacuation Center, as many assix trains arriving in a day to the Center hospitals, with convoys, evacuation trains removing thepatients after treatment. Base 36, with four surgical and one medical hospital, had capacityfor 3,000 patients and for considerable time the corridors were lined with cots. Base Hospital 36 received by train and ambulance most of the first cases of Americangassed in the region of Baccarat, where the Germans on November 10, 1917, launched a heavy
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Capt. R. U. Adams. Lt. Leo J. Stafford. gas attack. Up to December 1, 1918, 982 gas cases were admitted to the Base. A system ofgraduated exercise was instituted for these patients with excellent results, 71% of them return-ing to duty immediately. Fifteen thousand and ninety-seven patients were handled at this Base from December 8,1917, to December 8, 1918. In Hospital A, which had 31.5% of all these cases, the death ratewas .0031, a slightly better average than one death in every 300 patients. In the Spanish-American War there were 20,000 cases of typhoid fever, 3,000 of which died. In the recentlycompleted year at Base Hospital 36, there were discovered two cases of typhoid and one ofparatyphoid fever, the death of only one soldier out of more than 15,000 being due to thisformer scourge. In the Vittel Hospital Center there are excellently appointed club buildings for officers,nurses and enlisted men, all provided for and severally equipped by the American Red Cross.The Officers Clu