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Identifier: CarryOnAug1918_851 (find matches)
Title: Carry On (periodical)
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Office of the Surgeon General, United States Army
Subjects: reconstruction rehabilitation therapy vocational therapy physical therapy American Red Cross
Publisher: Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine
Contributing Library: American Red Cross

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rgeon General and to furnish apersonnel for the various hospitals to directcurative, mental and manual work. A medical personnel has been mobilized and instructedin special duties at the Army Medical School,Washington. Its duty is to care for thedisabled soldiers on the transports fromoverseas. Receiving and distributing hospitals havebeen organized at Ellis Island and NewportNews, with a trained personnel to makemedical examinations and to classify andassign disabled soldiers to the proper hospitalsfor physical reconstruction. The necessarymachinery has been elaborated and an organi-zation perfected for the transfer of soldiersdisabled in line of duty at the training camps.For months the physical reconstruction ofdisabled soldiers has been carried on in a quietand unobtrusive way. Hundreds of soldiersdisabled in line of duty overseas and in thetraining camps are under treatment at thepresent time. The work is actively and efficiently carriedon under the full organization indicated at
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Food conservation has opened up new opportunities in truck garden-ing and the handicapped soldier is quick to take advantage of them.This class recently exhibited a fine array of market products, whichthe men themselves raised on the grounds of Walter Reed Hospital. 26 A R R O N Vol. I Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington;Fort McPherson, Ga.; Fort Porter, N. Y.;Fort McHenry, Baltimore; LettermanGeneralHospital, San Francisco; Cape May, Lake-wood and Colonia, N. J.; New Haven, Conn.;Markleton, Pa.; and Otisville, N. Y. Thenecessary organization is in course of develop- ment for the work at Plattsburg, N. Y.; FortBayard, New Mexico; Fort Des Moines, Iowa;and at Hot Springs, Ark. As the need arisesother general hospitals already in existencewill be utilized and new general hospitalsmay be constructed in certain military zonesof the country.

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