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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1898)
HIE COURIER. j I : F ABOUT THE SOLDIERS. dred and forty-six had been within T OHICKAMAUGA.Ga. The correspondent of Town Topics says: The prejudice existing in mili tary circles in general, and in the mind of General Sternbeig in particu lar, against trained women nurses for the sick and wounded soldiers, will have to be done away with. If any thing under thet sun is needed imme diately at Chickamauga, it is twenty - five trained nurses at Leiter hospital. Dr. E. C. Carter, the surgeon in .-charge, says he much prefers women 'nurses. They do not fret, irritate, or " bulldoze the patient; do not smoke, drink or go to sleep while on duty -are more reliable in every way. - At present there are one hundred and eighty patients in Leiter hospital, one hundred and forty-six of whom vare down with typhoid fever, and " there are only six trained nurses! Can you imagine what that means, .with temperatures at one hundred and four and one hundred and five de grees? With cooling baths needed to prevent -the burning-out of the life spark? With the necessity that nour- " ishment be given at regular intervals to build up what is left of vitality when the fever has abated? To be sure, there are ten men to assist these nurses, medical students mostly, who do the lifting and care for the patients who are raving in de lirium. .Some one told me there were at Leiter hospital forty-five nurses to give them the proper attention. One poor woman came to me, whose son 'had died there, and begged me to say - something about i with my pen." An other told me the "boys" died -there from home sickness added to disease; others said soldiers died on the way there from jolting over the roads from division hospitals. iFinally I took a carriage and went out there myself to investigate it was too seri ous a subject lo handle carelessly. To begin with, Mrs. Leiter, when she bought an abandoned summer hotel to present to our soldiers as a hospital failed to ask why it had been con demned as a pleasure resort. If she should ask now she would find the condemnation was due to the fact of ,its being a death-trap for malaria. Dr. E. C. Carter, who is now in charge of the hospital, with his assistants started to find causes, and the dead liest one has been unearthed; it was found that the sewerage of the house consisted of one pipe eight hundred feet in length, with two hundred feet of it blocked entirely. This pip.e starting directly under the house, had no ventilation whatever except through the door into the different parts of the house. Dr. Carter and his forces knocked out glass which furnished light- into this room, and covered the apertures with wire net ting; they dug up floors and pipes to get at safely concealed cesspools; they have opened up a circulation of air, and in various ways have turned this deadly poison away from the air which the patients must breathe. In addition to the one hundred and forty-six soldiers who are down with the fever, is one 01 the women nurses and one of the surgeons. This nurse who succumbed to the fever was, Dr. Car ter said, invaluable, and she was worn out with the demand made upon her. All of the nurses are worn out, but go. from one patient to another with no thought of their own failing strength. One patient, to keep hhn alive, had received five cooling baths. Some of the patients were convales cing, but the majority of the fever cases were perilously ill. 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Lacey & Son, 1217 O Street. HHMHIMIIHHIMMMt r IS., R- . A- SHEMAKEK. Private Hospital, fe-SKS GraJyatc Ntsc ta attendance. Special attcatioa gives to all DISEASES OF WOMEN. Every Cweaicace for Pelvic lad AMoalaal Surgery. EIecJrfc,MaaB4? Baths aadSwatiAMtrrcacato for Ia4ieoaly a the ant recent developments by the tniacd auatpulitor ta charge. .... . . few days. It is so difficult to get workmen in this easy-going southern climate tl.nl Tli. PirtiT io nhlifTPil to take the medical corps, who act as nurses and Being compelled to make room for our large stock of f assistants, away from the sick beds for manual labor that must be done to get the hospital into condition to receive -the fast coming patients. lie has telegraphed for nurses and women nurses. He hopes his necessities will realized, and that red-tape will be dispensed with and a corps of nurses reach him at once. As we were passing from one ward to another a young man with tears in his eyes came to Dr. Carter to see about shipping the body of his broth er back to Mississippi. The nurse had just told him that his brother could not live till morning. Thirty five days he had been struggling with the fever, and had not the strength to rally. In his delirium he has talked of the drilling, the hot sun, and the shade on the lawn at home. The brother has been here for two weeks, hoping against hope. Some of the time the sick brother has known him, but most of the time it has been the quiet, sad delirium. I went from cot to cot. 6ome of the sick ones could talk to me, but near ly all were too ill. Two mothers were' there, who had come to take care of their sons, and the nurses and doc tors were as glad to see them as were their sick boys. One soldier, who was by himself, in one room were there was another cot empey, seemed so far away from the rest that I asked him if he was lonely. He said feebly: "Yes, it is lonely, but I prefer it. The man in the other cot died this morning he made me nervous." The ball room, the billiard room, the office, the dining room, the par lors of this former summer hotel was filled with cots, and each cot had its occupant. Mosquito netting canopied each cot, and each soldier had a fan he could fan if he had ..e strength, or if not, perhaps the soldier on the next cot was a little stronger and could fan the two of them. The linen of the bed and the night shirts were all new and clean, and the floors are being covered with rubber matting to deaden niose. In time everything will come out all right; in the meantime there are some big blunders here as well as at Tampa to contend with. It is perfectly evident that the 'heads of the three most important departments in Washington the med ica, the ordnance and the quartermas ter have no idea of the magnitude of this army. A tour of inspection for General Sternberg, General Flag ler and General Ludington would result, I am sure, in immediate ac tion, with red tape issuing afterward. In this one instance, if these men at Leiter hospital were lying there the victims of an enemy's bullet, it would seem a necessary part of war fare; to have them lie there the vic tims of climatic disease and die for want of care because of silly preju dices against women nurses, is crim inal. Every modern physician pre . fers women nurses. Our training schools have given to us these women who are essential to -Mieir part of the work, as are the doctor, surgeon and physician to his. To receive a diplo ma as nurse, is to receive a cre dential of capability, reliability and tntstworthyness in every way. The mothers of the country have given their sons to this war. Let General Sternberg kindly bive to these general hospitals at' least wom en nurses. 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