The Medical Department of the U.S. Army in the World War, Volume V: Military Hospitals in the United States

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1923. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 857, [5] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Charts. References. Index. Boards weak, large, heavy volume somewhat shaken. Ex-library with usual library markings (library stamps, bookplate and pocket). Library call number on spine. Boards and spine scuffed and scratched with edge wear to boards and spine. LTC Frank Weed was awarded the Army's Distinguished Service Medal for his service during WWI. This service included serving as Sanitary Inspector at Camp Funston, Kansas, Lieutenant Colonel Weed initiated and perfected the organization and establishment of a standardized type of detention and quarantine camp, the successful operation of which resulted in the installation of similar camps in all large cantonments throughout the United States during the war. This original and constructive work of his had a marked influence in controlling epidemic diseases, then prevalent, and greatly facilitated the rapid mobilization and training of urgently needed man power. From January until August 1918, as General Sanitary Inspector, Surgeon General's Office, he rendered services of the highest order. Later, while on duty in the Hospital Division of the Chief Surgeon's Office, American Expeditionary Forces, as Transportation Officer in Charge of hospital trains, ambulances, and the movement of sick and wounded within the American Expeditionary Forces to the Untied States during the period from January to July 1919, he directed the evacuation of over 100,000 sick and wounded to the United States. During World War I, at the direction of Major General William Gorgas, The Surgeon General (1914-1918), the Office of The Surgeon General initiated an extensive historical program based on its previous experience with the monumental six-volume The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1870-88) after the Civil War. Between 1921 and 1929, the Surgeon General's Historical Division published 15 volumes (17 books) that fully captured the Army Medical Department's experience both in the United States and Europe during the war (See Preface to the series for additional background). The official history series, The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War was the most comprehensive account that any military medical service in the world had produced up to that time. In time, large parts of these volumes will be posted on the AMEDD History on-line presence so that a complete appreciation of the AMEDD's role in World War I will be more readily available to a wider audience.

The purpose of this volume is twofold: to furnish a record of experiences incident not only to the actual provision of the military hospitals in the United States during the World War but to their administrative operation as well; and, in so far as it has been practicable, to record the histories of the hospitals separately in order that their individual identities might be perpetuated.

The material has been arranged to deal with generalities first and then with the individual organizations.

Professional activities are considered in other volumes of the history, appropriate in each case to the particular specialty involved. The plan consistently followed here has been not to include any of these except as they intimately affected organization or administration, when, to avoid a breach in continuity or the semblance of devitalization, they have been briefly recounted.

It was obviously impossible to include complete histories of all the many military hospitals in the United States, so a representative of each of the various types has been selected for description. Hospitals whose histories were most complete were chosen in each instance for this purpose.

To show what each of the hospitals accomplished and the staff requirements of each, statistical tables have been prepared exhibiting, numerically, the number of patients treated and the personnel provided for their treatment. These tables have been appended to the hospital concerned when that hospital has been separately considered; otherwise, they have been given in synopsis form by hospital groups. These tables are imperfect: complete data either were not furnished by the hospital during the war, or they have been misplaced since. They are not considered an end, but rather a means to an end, and for this reason it is felt that they will amply serve their purpose despite minor errors.
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Keywords: WW1, Military Medicine, Military Hospitals, Base Hospitals, Embarkation, United States Army, Base Hospital, General Hospital, Aviation Hospital, Airplane Ambulance, Embarkation Hospitals, Debarkation Hospitals, Demobilization

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