Haven (AH 12) - Naval Cruise Book

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The peninsular Korean War has brought home to the United States Navy the absolute necessity for the maintenance of her hospital ships which have been so adequately staffed and equipped for many wars Unlike the other wars in which the floating hospital was a more or less welcomed supplement to other medical facilities, the present conflict makes us a primary medical establish- ment for urgent frontline casualties and would almost leave us with complete medical responsibilities in the case of an all-out air raid. The efforts of the Navy in furnishing hospitals at sea which equal or exceed the standards of the world ' s best hospitals has indeed been rewarded — and she is rightfully proud of this. The following pages depict the hospital at work both in carrying out her present primary duties of taking care of war emergencies and her secondary duties of administering routine medical care to the Armed Forces of the United Nations, Between January 7, 1952 and October 13, 1952 almost thirty-four hundred patients were hospitalized in the U.S S. HAVEN and literally thousands more received treatment on an out-patient basis. S J0 [?T7m. Q

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