George Elliott (AP 105) - Naval Cruise Book

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MO cooperation with this staff are twelve corpsmen ranging in rates from Chief Pharmacist mgfes to Hospital apprentices second class. However the complement has been as high as eighteen and as low as eight corpsmen. Aboard the Elliott we have a forty-bed sick bay for our sick and wounded, one surgery equipped for major and minor operations, a laboratory, dispensary, X-ray and a dental office A spray- ing squad operates nightly, spraying with in- secticide spray the forward and after galleys, butcher shop, bakery and officers' galley. After the disembarkation of troops all troop compart- ments are fumigated. Sanitation an the Elliott as far as the crew goes has been no problem Due to the evidence of rat infestation aboard the Elliott, traps are set routinely throughout the ship. Typhoid, tetanus, cholera, typhus and smallpox vaccinations and innoculations are given routinely to the crew. The Dental Depart ment takes care of all repairs, disease, etc, af the teeth. HISTORY OF THE MEDlCAL DEPARTMENT The Medical Department of this ship was set up to take aboard and care for 7S litter cases and ISO ambulatory cases following the initial assaults. At no time did we treat to our capacity, but during the invasions of Leyte, Lingayen ontl the operation of Iwo Jima this clepcirtntiwit handled its wounded very capably imtlztw' J. O. Iz'ti.sfmriii ?? ff' nhl Y 5,5 -r The 79 and 40 casualties, of all descriptions, brought aboard at Saipan and Iwo Jima, respec- tively, were all inspected by a medical officer and then assigned to a specific location where treatment was given. This procedure proved its worth, as obvious confusion was dispensed with, and the more serious wounded were given priority in treatment, We have been most fortunate in relation to dysentery in epidemic form, having had only 30 cases of fairly severe dysentery. This outbreak was due in all probability to contamination of food either bx flies or carriers. While in the Yokosuka, Japan, area from October l3, l945, to November l6, l9-li, a rather severe outbreak of dysentery occurred in many of the fleet units. We cgain were fortunate to escape with only five rhiid cases Rigid sanitary measures were always enforced All water, even after distillas tion, was highly chlorinated, Salt water from the harbor was discontinued for all purposes except the ships flushing system, Spraying squads operated throughout the ship nightly, control?-na, the spread of vermin, flies, roaches, err O Thus tier fi period of two years the men of H Divrst rf have plated their part well. Over one hir, ixgigztit-its have been performed, eleven ,t ri r ngiture, witlwout a fatality. Sickness iii all descriptions have been ti i A titf this putiviits returned to duty, 'lifts i i il l l, W, l i ' A