ï~~304 The Military Surgeon hospital and segregation camp were cordinated under the camp surgeon of the A and friction reduced to a minimum. Weekly conferences of medical beds an officers were held and health and venereal bulletins issued to keep com- equippe< manding and medical officers acquainted with prevailing conditions of tients e sanitation and health. The Although most organizations passing through the camp had medical 1919, wl detachments, some did not, and it was necessary to maintain six infirm- all the v aries for those unprovided units, besides the seven maintained for per- others fi manent organizations. the cam Hospitalization.-The sick at Pontanezen were cared for at Camp were six Hospital No. 33, which had a capacity of 9,800 beds and an isolation for treal section for contagious diseases. Navy Base Hospital No. 1, Camp Hospi- gonorrhN tal No. 45 at Landernau, and the Kerhuon Hospital were also available. camp w During the influenza-pneumonia epidemic of October and at times after ease segi the armistice the hospital facilities were taxed to their utmost capacity, This but the sick and wounded were always provided for. There was no justi- 9,000). fiable criticism as to the handling of sick nand wounded at Brest. citizensb Camp Hospital No. 33 was actually a general hospital, occupying tained. thirteen adrian barracks and four 300-foot barracks, with some of the old to be po French barracks for overflow. In April, 1919, the hospital had 1,000 venereal beds and an emergency capacity of 1,9200. It was then still further ex- Sani panded and soon reached a maximum capacity of 2,600 beds. The per- control i sonnel was improvised, and no nurses arrived until April, 1918. The a sanita personnel was always insufficient, and especially so in the fall of 1918, tants, t when the great epidemic broke out and 12,465 patients were admitted. ion. T] The Segregation Camp.-This camp was maintained for the isola- latrines. tion of contacts of infectious diseases. It was established December 6, nior sur 1918, at the extreme northern extremity of the camp, in a triangular their o area and bounded by three public roads, which simplified the matter of assistan guarding. The usual disease contacts were isolated here: pneumonia, geons ai measles, scarlatina, diphtheria, etc. Venereals were not all isolated in The this camp until June, 1919. It was termed a quarantine camp until men ea February 13, 1918, when the more euphonious designation "segrega- number tion camp" was adopted. The men were quarantined in floored tents, chens w with no more than six men to a tent. those at The camp was divided into plots, to each of which were assigned cer- twice da tain men, as venereals, diphtheria contacts, etc. Negro venereals were Cert separated from the whites; venereal suspects were also separated from troop k those with definite diagnoses. Venereals were classified as A, B, and C. handled Class A were unable to do any duty, and received no pay. Class B per- neer De formed light duty, and Class C full duty (or labor). Both received Kitc pay. All were tried by court-martial, in accordance with a general order operatio