The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War, Volume 6

United States. Surgeon-General's Office

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1926

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Table Page	44

Classification of causes for discharge in 20755 soldiers discharged for disability	45

229	48

Average number of workingdays lost in hospital for each class of venereal disease	50

By Col M C	58

LIST OF CHARTS	66

Figure	71

Ova of Pediculus corporis	75

Caloric value of garrison ration as provided in A R 1221 1913___ 23 Sample issue garrison ration in the American Expeditionary Force the appeara...	667

Garrison ration as prescribed by General Orders No 176 G H Q as issued in accordance with Circular No 57 O C Q M A E 1 1918 and with subsequ...	668

Percentage issue on the original ration__	669

Special increases in the garrison ration as prescribed in General Or G H Q A E F October 11 1918	672

The field ration American Expeditionary Forces prescribed July 28	673

The reserve ration and as modified in the American Expeditionary	675

The travel ration and as modified in the American Expeditionary F 31 Summary of caloric value of the various rations American Expedition	676

Study of a single mess and its food consumption _ _ 33 The French Army ration	678

Map showing location of delousing plants	76

Large delousing plant as designed in the St under the direction of the Construction	77

Eggs of Pediculus corporis before sterilizat	78

Same as Figure 78 after sterilization_____	79

Delousing plant at a debarkation camp	80

Improvised delousing plant at Camp Mills	81

Steam sterilizer____	82

Sterilizer room in improvised delousing	83

Entrance room Camp Mills delousing plan	84

Disrobing room Camp Mills delousing plan	85

Examination by medical officer Camp Mill	86

Shower room in improvised delousing plant	87

Drying room in standard delousing plant	88

Method of carrying barrack bags to disin Camp Mills	89

Exit room Camp Mills delousing plant_	90

Type of metal berth installed on transports	91

A corner of the galley on a converted cargo	92

Mess hall for troops on a converted cargo	93

Floor plan for camp receiving station______ SECTION II IN THE AMERICA CHAPTER I Sanitary organization By Col H II General plan organizat...	94

Onestory barrack 20 by 112 feet with full ridge ventilation_ _ _	133

Same as Figure 9 showing first floor arrangement___	140

Original aviation barrack_	147

Primary type of ridge ventilation__	155

Typical detention camp for 3000 men	180

Hopper type bin	194

Figure Page 28 Plan of a bread box provided with removable slatted shelves and screened ven tilated openings__	196

Vegetable cellar Camp Sherman Ohio	197

Proper form of potato parer_	199

Line service mess hall Camp Meade Md	201

Table service Camp Grant Ill	202

Sanitary dish washing line system Camp Grant Ill	203

Sterlizing dishes in bulk Camp Taylor Ky	204

Clear water reservoirs Camp Meade Md	228

Coagulation and settling tanks Camp Meade water purification plant__	229

Sterlization equipment Camp Meade water purification plant	231

plying Camp Bowie	232

Showing source of water supply ownership and treatment at 48 large camps and cantonments _ _	233

Filter room Camp Meade water purification plant	234

Showing typical waters supplied certain camps	238

Rates of sewage flow per hour and the percentage of the average in the main sewer Camp Meade Md May 1221 1918	243

The per capita water consumption and sewage flow in gallons and the ratio be tween sewage flow and water consumption at certain aviation fields	244

Constituents of untreated sewage Camp Meade Md Average of analyses over period of one week May 1221 1918	245

Analyses of composite samples of sewage collected at two aviation fields and one from a large camp	246

Methods of sewage disposal at the 16 National Army cantonments	248

Methods of sewage disposal at miscellaneous Army stations which were developed during the war	249

Methods of sewage disposal at certain general hospitals	250

Longitudinal isometric view of typical Construction Division type of sewage treatment plant _ _ _	251

Modified Construction Division type of septic tank __	253

First compartment of typical Construction Division septic tank showing scum formation Camp Meade Md	254

Summary of data collected at investigation of septic tank Camp Custer Mich	255

Grit and screen chamber Camp Meade sewagetreatment plant	256

Sludgedrying beds Camp Meade sewagetreatment plant	257

Trickling filter piping before placing crushed rock	258

A summary of analytical data obtained during investigation of Fort Myer sewage disposal plant April 1825 1918	259

Detailed drawing for kitchen incinerator for a company in a camp not provided with sewers	265

Detailed drawing of a rock pile crematory for use by a battalion regiment or larger unit____	266

One method of arranging garbage cans when these were kept in the company kitchen	272

Garbagetransfer station Camp Meade Md	273

Canwashing apparatus in garbagetransfer station Camp Meade Md	275

Quantities of certain constituents and the total weights of garbage produced per month at Camps Devens Dix and Meade_	276

Prices bid per ton for various constituents of garbage at Camps Dix and Jackson July 1 1918____	277

Burning refuse on camp dump	278

traps	280

Manure compost piles showing lane between piles with flytraps___	289

One method of protecting garbage cans from flies	293

Another type of flyproof shelter____	294

A type of improvised flytrap similar in shape to the Curry Champion trap	298

Flytrap as made by company artificer	299

Malariacontrol activities at United States Army stations	306

Detail maps showing malariacontrol activities at certain United States Army stations__	307

Endemic areas of malaria in United States___	308

One of the early ditches dug by the construction quartermaster Camp Meade Md	311

Oiling small pools with knapsack sprayers Camp Meade Md	312

A typical oiling station Camp Meade Md__	313

Malaria control situation at 70 of our largest and most active stations	318

Camp Jackson S C Survey by sanitary engineers showing layout of drainage ditches	321

Oil drip at termination of storm sewer Kelly Field Tex	322

Crudeoil drip can installed at head of stream Camp Gordon Ga	323

Big Creek Bottom Park Field Tenn Type of thicket swamp	324

Fort Logan H Roots Ark drainage work before draining	325

Drainage in swampy areas Camp Meade Md	326

Large swampy area southwest corner Camp Jackson S C	327

Dam for flushing purposes _	328

Pediculus humanus corporis Drawing of female and male__	373

Degree of infestation in troops passing through Camp Mills	393

Degree of infestation found on certain troop ships__	401

Degree of infestation in personnel arriving at Newport News Va	402

Results of repeated vermin examinations during a period of three weeks	403

Prevalence of lousiness among men sailing from various foreign points	404

Vermin infestation among patients received at debarkation hospitals in New York	405

Evolutionary periods in physical examination of drafted men____	444

Physical examinations and rejections at 14 National Army cantonments during a part of 1918 as compared with a similar part of 1917	455

Physical examination on disc	474

Table	491

Causes of disabilities reported by class of disability in demobilization April	503

323	506

on Ga 324	512

Organizations for sanitation American Expeditionary Forces	520

Figure	526

Special equipment No 3 front rank rifleman rifle company__ 7 Special equipment No 1 rear rank rifleman rifle company 8 Special equipment No 2 r...	610

Special equipment No 4 rear rank rifleman rifle company___ 11 Weights carried by members of rifle company Infantry regiment	611

Automatic clothing supply American Expeditionary Forces 13 Clothing shipped from the United States to American Expeditionar	615

6 1917 to November 11 1918	617

Rate of supply and consumption of principal articles of clothing 16 Articles of clothing on hand in various depots American Expedit November 15 1...	617

Sizes tariff and measurements of the service coat at the beginning	620

Clothing worn by our Siberian Expeditionary Forces	624

The leather jerkin	625

Infantryman wearing canvas leggins	627

Size tariff per 10000 russet shoes during the summer of 1917	629

Proposed revised tariff for field shoes January 31 1918	630

Overseas cap	635

American soldiers washing clothing in the River Orne France__ 31 Mobile laundry manufactured in the United States for the Am tionary Forces Exte...	644

Mobile laundry Same as in Figure 31 showing the interior of	645

Type of portable laundry procured in France	646

Laundry at Base Hospital No 52 Rimacourt France	650

The garrison ration as prescribed by A R 1205 1913 with estimate	663

and caloric value 21 Garrison ration as used in the American Expeditionary Forces w composition and caloric value	664

The British Army ration	681

The German Army ration_	683

Summary and comparison of rations of armies	684

Acid and base content garrison ration General Orders No 176 G H 1918	685

British restcamp ration__	691

Modified British restcamp ration	692

Front and right side of field range No 1 with boiling plate and ments set up	711

Equipment for field range No 1	712

Improved company field kitchen_ 38 Improved camp kitchen	714

Cooker for camps and billets 40 Improvised semicircular oven 41 The Magor rolling kitchen designed capacity 250 men _ _ 42 The Magor rolling k...	718

The Steinburn rolling kitchen__ 44 The Taylor rolling kitchen No	720

The Taylor rolling kitchen No 30	721

The Liberty rolling kitchen fourhole animaldrawn	722

The Liberty rolling kitchen fourhole motordrawn	723

Kitchen of Company A 126th Infantry Regiment 32d Division in rear of front line Heckon sector Alsace Here food was cook to front line in containe...	724

Hidden kitchen 101st Infantry Regiment Bois de la Voisogne Fra 1918 Marmites Norvegienes shown in foreground_	725

A field bakery producing 12pound loaves of bread_	729

A field bakery producing the smaller 4pound loaves of bread	736

Analyses of candies made in French factories operating under Q Department A E F supervision __ 41 Analyses of flour and bread samples intended ...	758

Department of Experiment the Infantry School Camp Benning Ga August 4 1921 copy on file Historical D	769

Penfield dam Base Section No 5 A E	773

Interior of pumping station at Penfield dam	774

A typical water point front zone A E F 55 Water points Grosrouvres A E F showing reservoirs and showe 56 Ewvezin water plant American Expedit...	779

Ewvezin water plant American Expeditionary Forces interior of showing filter and chlorimeter___	780

American canvas tank reservoir_ _ _ 59 Light railway water tank car American Expeditionary Forces 60 Horsedrawn water carts	781

Trailmobile water carts 62 Twelvehundred gallon tank trucks American Expeditionary Force	782

American bottle filler or lavoir with corrugatediron trough___	783

Watersterilizing bag typical installation_	784

Interior of mobile laboratory	788

Figure Page 66 Sterilab water purification truck general view__	792

Sterilab water purification truck showing one end of laboratory with chemical cupboard water tank and apparatus___	794

clave and liquid chlorine apparatus_	795

Sterilab water purification truck showing pump and filter__	796

Sterilab in operation	797

Showing the results of treating water in water sterilizing bags with ca chlorite	800

Schematic plan for advance water supply in the MeuseArgonne operation October 30 1918	803

Standard United States Army latrine box	822

Latrine cover	824

Flush latrine cover as used in the 1st Division A E F _	825

Flush latrine cover with hinged lids and automatic back stop	827

Box latrine cover with urinal and flytrap	828

Deep latrine boxseat type	829

Deep latrine straddle type	830

Flyproof squat trench latrine	831

Flyproof trench latrine	832

Flyproof seat for latrine pail	834

Portable flyproof latrine	835

Bucket latrine_____	836

Railwaylatrine building Camp Pontanezen Brest	837

Interior of railway latrine Camp Pontanezen Brest	838

Showing principle of Horsfall destructor __ _	839

Horsfall feces destructor Base Hospital No 68 December 31 1918_	840

Smokeless feces destructor	841

Feces destructor___	842

Inclosed beehive incinerator with tubular drying chamber	843

Bailleul incinerator with baffle	844

Bailleul incinerator without baffle	845

Feces destructor shed obsolete type	846

Detachment latrine Base Hospital No 68 December 31 1918	848

Improvised feces separator for latrines	849

Feces separator and shed	850

Modified Reed trough First Depot Division A E F	852

Horsemanure incinerator	855

Incinerator with manuredrying grid_	856

Square incinerator	857

Square incinerator in operation	858

Beehive incinerator_	859

Improvised conepit incinerator	860

Portable inclinedplane incinerator_	861

Incinerator and hotwater heater	862

United States Army hospital type A incinerator	863

Type A incinerator in operation	864

Refuse destructor with hotwater apparatus	865

Typical showerincinerator layout__	866

Urine soakage pit	875

Soakage pit for sullage water	876

Strainer grease traps and soakage pit for sullage water	877

Ablution bench and water disposal	878

325	927

Improvised stand for the venereal prophylactic station_	943

326	982

328	983

373	985

Portable waterheating apparatus for baths_ _ _ _	999

Suggested plan for divisional bathing and clothingissue rooms A E F	1004

Water tank added to FodenThresh disinfector for bathing purposes	1012

Figure Page 119 Mobile degassing apparatus converted to bathing purposes	1013

Twentyfour showers operated by mobile bathing apparatus shown in Figure 119	1014

Base hospital bathing plant__	1015

FodenThresh disinfector__	1016

FodenThresh disinfector apparatus open	1017

Horsedrawn Thresh disinfector	1019

Stationary furnaceheater type Thresh disinfector for base hospital use A E F	1020

A battery of American sterilizers in operation at Camp Hospital No 11 St Nazaire	1021

American sterilizer showing chamber	1022

Serbian barrel disinfector	1027

Steam delousing barrel	1028

Small steam delouser used in 80th Division	1030

Jacobs suggested plan for bathing and dryair disinfestation	1034

Hotair disinfestor	1036

Canadian hotair disinfestor	1037

Plan of delousing plant embarkation camps A E F	1039

Section of disinfestation chambers___	1040

Clothing rack after removal from disinfestation chamber	1041

Typical rat infestation holes and runways in the side of a trench west of Verdun	1073

German dugout near Damvillers Meuse	1074

German woodenbase snap trap ___	1075

Old shell hole partly filled with water and camp refuse	1076

Brown rat taken at entrance to burrow in trench wall near Varennes Meuse	1077

Advance Depot No 1 near IssurTille showing storage of miscellaneous sup plies	1078

Advance Depot No 1 near IssurTille showing typical view of warehouses	1079

Advance Depot No 1 near IssurTille showing forage piled on dunnage laid on the ground but covered with canvas	1080

French allmetal snap trap	1081

Rat hole under boxes of subsistence supplies in warehouse at Montoir Base Section No 1	1082

Rats and mice of various kinds trapped in one night at Advance Depot No 1	1083

Head of rat left in trap showing cannibalistic habits of the animals_	1085

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Adjutant air space Anopheles barracks base hospital beds buildings Camp Devens Camp Dix Camp Meade Camp Pike Camp Sherman camp surgeon cantonments cent Chief of Staff commanding officer Construction Division Correspondence File Culex dehydrated delousing delousing plants department commander depots detention disposal division surgeon drainage efficiency enlisted epidemic epidemiologists flies floor space Funston garbage Imhoff tanks indorsement infected influenza inspection instructions kitchen large numbers lice located malaria manure Medical Department medical officers Memorandum meningitis ment mess military mosquitoes necessary Old Files organization overcrowding patients personnel physical examination pneumonia port of embarkation Quartermaster recommended Record Room Sanitary Corps sanitary engineer sanitary inspectors sanitation satisfactory screening September September 25 Septic tank sewage sewer sick soldier stations Subject Surgeon General's Office tent tion transports trench fever troops U. S. Army United ventilation War Department washing water supply

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Title	The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War, Volume 6 The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War, Charles Lynch
Author	United States. Surgeon-General's Office
Editor	Charles Lynch
Publisher	U.S. Government Printing Office, 1926
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	10 Oct 2006

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