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THE JAPANESE AMBULANCE, &c. 121
after the new diet was adopted, though there was
a fairly large number of new cases also in October
and November.
The field hospitals had always to be ready to
receive large numbers of wounded without warn-
ing or notice ;
therefore as soon as possible all
wounded brought in were moved on to the divi-
sional stationary hospital.
The stationary hospitals were the great reser-
voirs where the streams of wounded from the field
hospitals flowed in and congregated, and from
them were again sent out in batches on their long
homeward journey. There was one stationary
hospital to each division, generally established in
a village at a safe distance from the firing lines,
in the flat stretch of country behind the Feng-
hoangshan Range. These were quite large esta-
blishments, with an adequate staflT of surgeons
and assistants. The wounded were partly in-
stalled in tents, belonging to the field hospitals,*
partly in Chinese houses, remaining there only
until they gained sufficient strength to undergo
the three hours’ railway journey to Dalny.
From the stationary hospitals the wounded men
were sent down to Changling railway-station,
some three or four miles behind Fenghoangshan,
and conveyed, in open trucks and without any-
thing but a blanket between them and the hard
bottom of the car, to the base hospital in Dalny.
Here they met for the first time with some com-
fort. The large hospitals were established in the
cathedral and in some of the best houses in the
town. The wounded were quartered in clean,
airy rooms, laid to rest on good mattresses, and
were even supplied with mosquito curtains ;
they
* Of the six field hospitals in each division, three were
generally established as stationary hospitals.
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