Volume 1

Documents of the U.S. Sanitary Commission.

  • United States Sanitary Commission.
Date:
1866-1871
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Credit: Documents of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    B. The second Sub-Committee would have in charge, directly or through agents, the actual exploration of recruiting posts, transports, camps, quarters, tents, forts, hospitals ; and consultation with Officers—Colonels, CajDtains, Surgeons, and Chaplains—at their posts, to collect from them heedful testimony as to the condition and wants of the ■ft'oops. C. The third Sub-Committee would investigate, theoreti- cally and practically, all questions of diet, cooking, and cooks; of clothing, foot, head, and body gear; of quarters, tents, booths, huts ; of hospitals, field service, nurses, and surgical dressers ; of climate and its effects, malaria, and camp and hospital diseases and contagions; of ventilation, natural and artificial; of vaccination ; anti-scorbutics : dis- infectants ; of sinks, drains, camp sites, and cleanliness in general; of best method of economizing and preparing rations, or changing or exchanging them. All these questions to be treated from the highest scientific ground, with the newest light of physiology, chemistry, and medicine, and the latest teachings of experience in the great continental wars. Probably these Committees of Inquiry could convert to their use, without fee or reward, all our medical and scientific men now in the army, or elsewhere, especially by sending an efficient agent about among the regiments to establish active correspondence with surgeons, chaplains, and others, as well as by a public advertisement and call for such help and information. II. Advice.—This branch . of the Commission would subdivide itself into three stems, represented by three Sub- Committees. The general object of this branch would be to get the opinions and conclusions of the Commission approved by the Medical Bureau, ordered by the War Department, carried out by the officers and men, and encouraged, aided, and sup- ported by the benevolence of the public at large, and by the State governments. It would subdivide itself naturally into three parts. 1. A Sub-Committee, in direct relation with the Govern- ment, the Medical Bureau, and the War Department; having for its object the communication of the counsels of the