Worcester (CL 144) - Naval Cruise Book

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DIV S10 INCE NAVY medicine is essentially preventive medicine, medical department representatives make it their business to know what is going on everywhere in the YVORCESTER. They check on the preparation and quality of the food and water. They are constantly on the watch for safety hazards from foc'sle to fantail. Everyday things like heat, ventilation, air conditioning are their concern. They are present at flight quarters, in landing forces and in hre fighting parties-alert to prevent accidents or to give prompt treatment. They may even put in a word about liberty ports visited to prevent the crew from contracting epidemic disease. Many of the hos- pitalmen are specialists in their Iieldg there are pharmacists, laboratory workers, X-ray teclmicians, operating room tech- nicians, and medical photographers. They have at their dis- posal as much specialized equipment as is found in any small hospital. Last year approximately 7,920 definitive treatments were given by the YVORCESTER medical department. On the bulkhead outside the record oihce is a placque- the 1948-1949 Commander Cruisers Atlantic award for excel- lence in medical and dental. H DIVISION IS DETER- MINED TO DO IT AGAIN THIS YEAR! 'xl I W' 'fi , i NJ First Row: Harry Spitzer, HM1g VVilt0n I. Hall, HMC3 Paul B. Sullivan, LTJGQ James XV. Gustin, CDR: Edward G. Karp, HMCg Iillftll C. Booker, ss? if HM1 .... Second Row: Arthur --Q D. Hamelin, HN: Martin A. Yatter, HM2: Clarence R. Buss, l-IM3g Frank M. Thomp- son, HM3: Earnest C. McGraw, HM3: xxvillilllll L. lloyd, HN! SX Marvin E. Lane, H3123 Richard L. Broxvn, I-IDI2. 1 ompounqlinp. u lll'1Nl l'illfl0ll 4' o ,y .yy y if , I I E

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Dl I0 HE DENTAL Di-1PAR'1'MicN'1', consisting of one oilicer and two trained technicians, certainly can't claim to be the largest di- vision on the ship, but none are smaller. The claim of the Most Popular or Most Important can't be made, either, although-when a fella secumbs to probably the most com- mon American illness, the toothache, and needs a friend - he finds there are good friends aboard to help. Jack D. Voigt, DT3, USN, hails from Madison, XfVisconsin and reported aboard from the Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He efficiently holds down the routine end of departmental book work, the supply accounts, records, and in addition, gives many prophylactic cleanings or scalings, one of the services the Dental Division gladly performs. James S. Carpenter, DN, USN, the newest addition to our happy tsome people may question thisy home, is from Eugene, Oregon, and just made his technician's rating at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, prior to report- ing' aboard a month ht-lore this cruise. Carpenter assists Dr, Hamilton, the Dental Ollicer, in providing dental care to the ship's M00 crew members. Lieutenant KIDVZIVCI' R. lHlainilton, DC, USN, is the 5fgfgf,m1 Dental Ollicer ordered to the l.l.S.S. XVORCliS'IlIiR since its commissioning' on 26 .june 1918, and is beginning his third tour of sea duty. Another mid-westerner, Dr. Hamilton comes from Highland Park, lllinois. He joined this Vagabond ship when he was detached from the Naval Air Station at Alameda, California. Toothaches, operative dentistry, fof silver and silicatej ex- tractions, and situations requiring' surgery are competently cared for in the ship's air conditioned Dental Ofiiceg one that is -as fully equipped for its type of work as could be found anywhere ashore. Good dental health and hygiene are rapidly growing in importance to the men of the Navy, and the WOR- CESTER Dental Department prides itself on participating in the reaching of this goal. ,sf 9' . f ii' 4. , ' 'iw ' ,' 1 f . f ,' Wwfha ff , ' f f ,gf 1, J I ,V ' f ,WW ' ' f y , 1-223 ' 6 ' f 1 .. :L 0174? : . , 17, .531 'Ng 'Ir Jziek D. Yoigrt, DTR: Tralver R. Hamilton, L'I'g Jimmie S. Farpenter, DX, Left: The llentul Ollieer eurry- ing' on routine dentxll serviee. if Right: Dental prophylaxis IU' A one of the two trained teeh- . nieiuns nliourd,