Infectious disease in Serbia / by John Furse McMillan.

  • McMillan, John Furse.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Infectious disease in Serbia / by John Furse McMillan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    whereas, through the courtesy of M. Geraiteh, Direeteur of No. 2 Military Hospital at Nish, I was enabled to study its workings, I will pause to give some account of the same, to which an interest is added by the trend of current events. A Base Hospital in Serbia—Hospital Gangrene. The building was originally a barrack for sappers, larger than the average English—i.e., as regards the length of its corridors; the rooms now converted into wards are both large, spacious, and clean, the double windows, when open, allowing of both an ample and sufficient influx of air. The walls are newly white- washed, whilst the flooring, regular and level, readily permits of the frequent use of the Oriental brush, the tiled corridors also being peculiarly adapted to the periodic swabbing to which they are submitted. The medical staff, consisting of both male and female officers, some Russian, some Serbian, others Greek, with Austrian prisoner M.O.’s, are all under the control of M. le Direeteur. The ordinary hospital ward routine is much the same as in a British hospital—that is to say, to each officer is allotted a certain number of wards, for the efficient wrorking of which he is responsible to M. le Direeteur, whilst there is an emergency officer constantly on duty, whose business it is to meet any eventuality after the evening visit has been paid. But the one and salient difference between a Serbian and English hospital is the mode of perform- ing the dressing of the cases. It should be mentioned that under stress, as happened only recently, includ- ing the corridors, 1,500 cases can be accommodated, all surgical. At 8.30 a.m. the patients from a certain number of wards are removed in canvas stretchers by a couple of Austrian prisoners to a room on the ground- floor, some 40 feet long and 18 feet broad, where there are ten beds placed at intervals dowm the centre. Around are forms. At the order the beds