ï~~ _,-. = REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES (Report on Influenza & Pnaumonia Epidemic) cont'd. -2 - barrack was set aside for the accommodation of mild cases. This plan, however, was soon abandoned; whole buildings in each battalion being set aside as required for the treatment of mild cases. These were dubbed "Battalion Hospitals", they being not under the administration of the Base Hospital, but were under the supervision and control of the Battalion Surgeon. In all about 80 barrack buildings were so used. These so called hospitals were run as follows; Battalions furnished cooks and kitchen police and also a certain number of attendants and the necessary diets, principally soup and milk. The necessary medical attendance were, of course, rendered by the Battalion Surgeons and other Medical Officers. Nearly all the new cases as they occurred were placed in the Battalion Hospitals and if the case was a mild one, it remained there during the whole course of the disease, but as they developed into severe cases or were suspected of being pneumonic or of having any other complication, they were immediately transferred to the Base Hospital Annex, no serious cases being kept in these Battalion Hospitals. Of course this required constant supervision to see that no serious cases were so kept and on the other hand that mild cases were not sent to the Base Hospital or its Annex later. Two consulting Medical Officers of mature judgment, with motorcycles, were detailed to supervise this separation of mild and severe cases. 2. At the same time blocks of barrack buildings about one-half mile from the Base Hospital were vacated and equipped with Quartermaster beds, bedding and Medical Department equipment as far as available. Two cooks were obtained from the School for Cooks and Bakers, and 40 enlisted men as kitchen police and orderlies were obtained from the line for each building, which accommodated about 90 patients, allowing fully 100 feet of floor space for each bed. Four line Officers as Detachment Commanders were also detailed. These buildings as they were equipped and manned were turned over to the Commanding Officers Base Hospital as an Annex and administered as wards of that institution. In all 24 buildings were so used. 3. This plan of establishing so called Battalion Hospitals for mild cases, and not under the administration of the Base Hospital, is believed to be better than to take over a much larger number of barracks as a part of the Base Hospital and to send all cases there;as under the plan employed onlythe more serious cases were sent to the Base Hospital where better facilities were to be had; such as female nurses and a greater number of trained 'atendants. The best medical attendance was thus concentrated on the more serious cases, without the trained personnel and their ef fort s be ing dissaipate d on the gre at number of mild c ases.. As the patients at the Base Hospital became convalescent they were transferred back to the Battalion Hospital where they were kept at least ten days after their temperature became normal, thus freeing the Base Hospital for the receibtion of more serious cases.