“Army Hospitals Said Run in Cold Blooded
Manner,” from
the Statesville Landmark, May 3, 1951
Washington, May
2—The army is pressing a sweeping investigation of its hospital facilities
after a series of incidents that included two fatalities. There is a
possibility that some military patients may be sent to civilian hospitals.
However, one army
spokesman has said that many civilian hospitals apparently do not know that
they can accept military patients and be paid by the government.
The army wants to
know why Private Arthur Credighton (of Yazoo City, Mississippi) was refused
admittance at Los Angeles County General Hospital last week. The soldier died
on his way to the nearest military hospital 70 miles away.
The county superintendent
of charities in Los Angeles General Hospital—Arthur Wills—says that usually
military cases are not accepted. He went on…”It takes us more than a year to
get paid.”
A nine-month-old
boy—James Ballenger—died of influenza. His father, Sergeant Dale Ballenger,
said he had been told to stand and wait with the baby until a line of soldiers
had been treated. That was at the Fort MacArthur infirmary in Los Angeles.
The commandant of
Fort MacArthur—Colonel Sidney Dunn—said: “The trouble is that military enlistments
are increasing, while medical facilities are being cut back.”
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