Unloading casualties, Base Hospital 21, Rouen, France.
Date
[1918?].
Physical Description
1 slide : lantern.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger. Part of the wwi set of images.
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Description
Casualties being unloaded at Base Hospital 21 from a British Red Cross ambulance. The unit developed efficient procedures to handle the large number of admissions, many of whom arrived dirty and infected with vermin. Only severe stretcher cases had a change of clothing at the advance stations or hospitals. All other patients were usually in the same clothing that they had been wearing when taken sick or wounded. Walking cases were hurriedly looked over by a senior medical officer at the reception hut as soon as they were unloaded from the ambulances, and unless obviously unfit, were sent at once to the bath house. Patients were admitted to an undressing room at one end, where small personal belongings were put into cloth bags furnished by the Red Cross. All clothing was then put through an opening into an outside bin. The patients then passed into the shower room with their bags and shoes, which were placed on a central rack, and washed under one of the ten showers. After the bath they continued through into a dressing room, where a towel and suit of heavy blue washable hospital clothing were issued. The patients were then sent to the wards. The dirty clothing was sorted out, disinfected, and salvaged.
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Acquisition Method
Gift.
Provenance
Arthur W. Proetz, MD, 1990, (90-061).
Subject-Corporate Name
United States. Army. Base Hospital 21.; United States. Army -- Transport of sick and wounded.
Subject
Hospitals, Military; Military Personnel; Transportation of patients; World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals.; World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care.
