Disabled Soldiers Research Articles

DISABLED SAILORS AND SOLDIERS: Scheme of the Birmingham Pensions Committee

DISABLED SAILORS AND SOLDIERS: Scheme of the Birmingham Pensions Committee

NURSING AND NURSES IN WAR.

One of the grave problems of modern warfare is the proper care and nursing of the sick and wounded. Our recent experience during the war with Spain has brought the subject prominently to the attention of the military authorities and the people of the United States. The war just ended has furnished the most instructive and forcible object-lesson, in demonstrating the importance and necessity of making adequate preparation for the proper care and management of the disabled soldiers in war time. The motives which precipitated the war were of the purest, noblest kind, arising from the desire to bring freedom and liberty to the legitimate owners of our neighboring islands, who, under the iron rule of an effete, bankrupt monarchy, had been deprived of their liberty, happiness and prosperity for centuries. On our part, the war spirit was aroused by a sense of duty to our neighbors and to advance

Report of the Surgeon-General of the Army for the Year Ending June 30, 1896.

The following is an abstract of Surgeon-General Sternberg's report, omitting financial statements, special reports of medical officers, statistic tables and other matters of detail: War Department, Surgeon-General's Office, Washington, D. C. Sept. 8, 1896. Sir:I have the honor to submit the following report of my administration of the duties of this office during the past year. Beside the health of the troops and the sanitary condition of the various military posts, this report relates to certain duties imposed upon the Surgeon-General of the Army by the Revised Statutes of the United States and by Acts of Congress making appropriations to be disbursed under his direction. Among the expenditures authorized by Congress for the year ended June 30, 1896, were those for artificial limbs and their commutation, for appliances for disabled soldiers, for trusses, for the support and treatment of destitute patients in the city of Washington, D. C., for