Medical Mobilization and the War and Later at Other Depots and Camps
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the arm, or vasomotor or vasa vasorum disturbances at the government prices. Samples of cloths with the issue prices will be kept on hand by all camp, cantonment and post quartermasters and to modified nutritional conditions in the wall may be examined by officers on request after the date mentioned. For leading the present stock will be carried at the following depots only, but this of the vessel. Halsted is inclined to reject these list will be extended from time to time as cloth becomes available: New York depot, Washington depot, Atlanta depot, Sam Houston explanations. He believes that what he describes as depot, San Francisco depot, Chicago depot, St. Louis depot. the abnormal, of the blood in the 3. The quartermaster general will determine by thorough investiga¬ whirlpool-like play tion a schedule of fair prices for making uniforms, including all neces¬ relatively dead pocket just below the site of the con¬ sary trimmings, linings, etc., but not including the cloths, and prepare a list of responsible tailors who agree to make uniforms for officers striction, and the lowered pulse pressure may be the at the schedule rates, the quartermaster general guaranteeing to the chief in tailors the collection of bills for all uniforms ordered through the repre¬ factors concerned the production of the dilata¬ sentatives of the quartermaster general. The schedule of prices, the tion. The of this conclusion must be estab¬ list of tailors agreeing to make uniforms at these prices and the regula¬ validity tions governing the sale to officers of the standard cloths, the placing lished before a rational method of cure can be insti¬ of orders, the acceptance of uniforms ordered and the payment of bills will then be published to the service. · tuted in the management of such aneurysms. 4. The quartermaster corps will arrange to supply from stock at cost made up (ready to wear) officers' uniforms. These will be pro¬ vided in only two types of cloth for coats and breeches, namely: The 12-ounce worsted serge and the 20-ounce melton and 32-ounce melton for overcoats. It is expected that an adequate supply can be provided at the principal depots mentioned in Paragraph 2 by Nov. 1, 1918, Medical Mobilization and the War and later at other depots and camps. Work of Advisory Boards The Epidemic of Influenza in the A. E. F. A telegram addressed to all draft executives calls attention The Weekly Bulletin of the Medical Service in the Ameri¬ of Local Boards to Section 123 as and as amended appearing can Forces contains the statement in the second edition of Selective Expeditionary following the Service Regulations and relative to the epidemic of influenza. "This disease which to the fact that a no has the or registrant longer right privi¬ was mentioned previously as 'Three Day Fever' is now be a lege of applying to sent to Medical Advisory Board. known to be due to the true Pfeiffer bacillus, although evidently of a much milder strain than the type which pre¬ vailed in the pandemic of 1889. This epidemic, though of Women Physicians Wanted for Anesthetic Service remarkable mildness in the two months from April IS to June Dr. F. H. McMechan, secretary of the Interstate Anes¬ IS, has within the past four weeks shown certain charac¬ thetists and the American Anesthetists, Avon Lake, Ohio, teristics which indicate the kind of increasing virulence with which are familiar in the case of strains of states that he is authorized to secure qualified women physi¬ bacteriologists a succession of sus¬ cians under 45 years of age as anesthetists for war service. pneumococcus passed rapidly through animals such as the rabbit. Onset with Women physicians desiring to enter this service may com¬ ceptible temperature municate directly with Dr. McMechan. of 104, projectile vomiting, severe headache, Kernig's sign and high tension spinal fluid, flowing freely up to 100 c.c. has not been uncommon and many cases have been mistaken for, and some have been treated as, with anti- for meningitis Gas Hospital Unit Starts France meningococcus serum. No harm, apparently, has come from The first hospital unit designed exclusively for gassed the use of the treatment and symptomatic relief has often victims has started recently for France. This unit is the unit followed the withdrawal of the excess fluid, but confusion is. of the Women's Overseas Hospitals. The chief of the medical likely to arise when the fluid clear on the tap becomes turbid staff is Dr. Marie Louise Lefort, New York City, and with with leukocytes from the reaction following the introduction her are associated Dr. Adah McMahan, Lafayette, Ind., Dr. of the antimeningococcus serum. If the meningococcus is. Irene M. Morse, Clinton, Mass., Dr. Elizabeth A. Bruyn, not found on smear or culture it is well to be satisfied with Brooklyn, and Dr. Alice M. Flood, New York City. The withdrawal of fluid and not to give serum. Pneumonias have hospital has accommodation for 300 patients, the equipment is been more common sequelae in July than in April. mobile, and has for its immediate needs, two ambulances, one Prompt hospitalization effectively guards against serious 3-ton truck and one 2-ton truck. sequelae and is still the best treatment to be offered. Relief from headache by aspirin, abundant use of water internally, gentle laxative, and, when the temperature has fallen, a have seemed to be the treatment. Division nourishing diet, approved Surgeons Appointed The same warning should be given now as always in treating Lieut.-Col. William T. Cade, Jr., has been appointed divi¬ influenza, that is, warn against premature return to hard work. sion surgeon at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio; Major The epidemic is about at an end so far as A. E. F. troops William W. Pretts has been appointed sanitary inspector, and are concerned and has been throughout of a benign type, Lieut. Harry H. Sumner, assistant to the division surgeon. though causing considerable noneffectiveness." Lieut.-Col. James F. Johnston has been appointed division surgeon at Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C. ; Major Thomas W. has been Maloney appointed inspector, and Lieut. Medical Teachers Registered Under Selective Service Act John F. Schafmeister, assistant to the division surgeon. Lieut.-Col. John J. Roddy has been appointed division A circular letter from the Committee on Education and surgeon at Camp Cody, Deming, N. M. ; Capt. Alvin M. Special Training sent on Sept. 19, 1918, to all institutions Fortney has been appointed sanitary inspector, and Lieut. having units of the Students' Army Training Corps. L. M. Spalding, assistant to the division surgeon. 1. Men heretofore or hereafter classified in Class I, Group A, and called to military service will not be granted furloughs. 2. Teachers who are essential are eligible to claim deferred Officers' Uniforms Available Through Quartermaster's classification under Section 80, Selective Service Regulations,, Department and they are encouraged to do so. Such deferred classifica¬ tion should be claimed for them the educational institutions A general order makes the following announcement rela¬ by which are tive to the supply of officers' uniforms : by they employed. 3. Teachers who are denied deferred classification the III. Section G. O. by IV, 56, W. D., 1918, is rescinded and the fol¬ district board and \vho are liable to call to service is substituted therefore: military lowing will be to request induction in the unit 1. The following cloths are adopted as standard for officers' uniforms, encouraged voluntary and all uniforms for officers made in the United States after Dec. 31, of the S. A. T. C. stationed at the institution where such 1918, will be one of these prescribed standards: instructors are employed. in For coat and breeches, summer wear the United States and in the 4. In very exceptional cases and on the recommendation of tropics only: a, an O. D. cotton; b, a 13-ounce all wool worsted gaber¬ the dine. For coats, breeches and overcoats: a, a 12-ounce worsted serge; educational department of the committee teachers who· b, a 16-ounce worsted serge; c, a 16-ounce whipcord; d, a 21-ounce have already been drafted and are now at mobilization camps or a 20-ounce melton. For whipcord élastique; e, riding breeches: will be transferred back as soldiers on active duty to the a, a 23-ounce Bedford cofd. For overcoats: a, a 32-ounce melton or kersey. unit of the S. A. T. C. where needed ; provided such instruc¬ 2. The quartermaster corps will after Dec. 1, 1918, carry a supply tors do not object to return as soldier instructors, have not of these cloths, and officers can purchase their personal requirements been permanently assigned in a capacity wherein their ser- Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a University of Iowa User on 05/30/2015 vices will be of great value to the Army, and have not already arriving recently in one organization there were the follow¬ been designated to attend officers' training schools. ing number of cases of well established pediculosis pubis : 5. Since the colleges are under contract with the War 338th Labor Battalion, Co. A, 22 cases ; Co. B, 26 cases ; Department to train enlisted men in the U. S. Army, essential Co. C, 37 cases; Co. D, 27 cases. teachers are obviously engaged in occupations that are strictly "'necessary to the maintenance of the military establishment." It is, therefore, expected that the really essential professors and teachers will be granted deferred classification under the Missing new law on this account. Heads of institutions should see to Lieut. Leónidas Barkdull Faulk, M. C, U. S. Army, Mon¬ it that district boards and their industrial advisers are fully roe, La., is reported in the Official Bulletin of July S, to be informed of all the facts in everv case.