This hospital continued to function until January 20, 1919, during which time 8,142 surgical and 7,481 medical cases were treated.ĭue to the hospital being in a series of hotels the hospital maintained 12 separate messes and occupied over 20 hotels in which sick and wounded were cared for. 99 arrived on Novemits title was changed to "Base Hospital." The first patients, 252 French wounded, arrived on April 9, and the first American patients, 358 in number, were admitted April 11, 1918. The nine hotels had a total capacity of 3,600 and were titled the Convalescent Hospital No. It took over nine hotels that the French had been using as hospital units and was ready to receive patients just eight days later on March 20, 1918.
It reached its final destination, Vichy, Department Allier, in the intermediate section, A. It then moved to Southampton, England, and shortly sailed the English Channel crossing to Le Havre, France, March 10, 1918. The base personal left New York on the RMS Olympic, arriving in Liverpool, England, March 6, 1918. The unit was mobilized on November 21, 1917, at the 12th Regiment Armory, NYC and trained until it left for Europe. To deal with casualties the AEF would take they set a series of hospitals throughout Europe. After the United States entered the war in April 1917 its soldiers, as part of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), began to arrive France later that year. 1 was organized in Bellevue Hospital, NYC in September 1916. Ward surgeon irrigating a wound of the right inguinal region accompanied by a nurseĪmerican Base Hospital No.
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