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pi.€ a The Hospital was formally opened on April 14, 190S), there being on duty at that time five officers, sixty-two enlisted men. and three civilian employees. The patients in the hos])ital at the end of May included five officers, eleven enlisted men, and one civilian. On June 21, 1911, one chief nurse and three nurses joined the personnel, a fifth nurse arriving three days later. The enormous expansion which became necessary may be better understood when we learn that the bed ca])acity increased from 930 beds at the end of 1917 to 2,500 beds at the end of 1918. Though the construction of temporary build- ings had been begun in 1917. additional land was acquired a year later and more temporarv buildings were constructed to meet this need. The first real contingent of overseas wounded arrived in July. 1918, and thereafter until the end of the year averaged about 300 monthly. . t the close of the year there were 865 orthopedic cases, 620 being amjjutations. With the increase in the numbers of patients followed a Cdrresjionding increase in the personnel and all the hospital facilities. All indications that the hospital is building for the future, when it will undoubtedly be the Army medical center of Eastern United States, is manifested by the complete and thorough equipment of its various dei)artments. The Laboratory, X-Kay De- partment. Hydro and Electro Therapy De])artments. ( )ccu])ational Therapy 1923 [23]
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!• p).Q.a l i toxv of Walttt i eeb (General o pital lALTEK REED tiEXERAL liOSITlAE is maintained for tlu- care of the sick and woimded in the Army, as well as those discharged or disal)led during the war. The late Major ' alter Reed, of the Army Medical Corps, a famous surg-eon, sanitarian, and bacteriologist, whose investi- gations and researches in typhoid fever, cholera, and yellow fever are especially noteworthy, is the man in who.se honor this institution was named. The history of the Walter Reed General }Tos])ital is one of rapid development. l he hospital is situated in Takoma Park on a tract of land comjjrising 109 acres. The ground on which the hospital stands has a militarv history of its own. It is on the site of the skirmi.sh of Fort Stevens, which was the engagement between the Union forces under General McCook and the Con- federate troops led hy General Earlv. As early as 1862, it had been recommended l)y the Surgeon General that a permanent hospital be established in Washington in connection with the Army Medical School, but it was not until 1905 that Congress authorized the purchase of the land which was designated as the site of the new militarv hospital to be given the name of Walter Reed General Hospital. The Admin- istration Building was com])leted in 190S. As the Hosjtital expanded, additional buildings were erected and at the ])resent time, besides the numerous temporary buildings, there are eight permanent buildings, the prevailing type of architecture being Maryland Colonial. - 1923 22 ]
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