The real triumph of Japan : the conquest of the silent foe / by Louis Livingston Seaman.
- Louis Livingston Seaman
- Date:
- 1906
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The real triumph of Japan : the conquest of the silent foe / by Louis Livingston Seaman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ASSISTANTS FROM JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY 4 Surgeons and Physicians 2 Apothecaries 2 Clerks 4 Chief Nurses (women) ] in operating room and bandage 39 Nurses (women) > prepainng rooms To understand the use and distribution of this staff, let us take the list of patients for one day in this hos- pital. On July 7th there was a total of 2,789 patients, which meant one nurse for every four or five patients, not including the women nurses assigned exclusively to the operating-room. There were fifty-three surgeons and physicians, including the Red Cross doctors, who were always on duty, and excluding the twenty-nine consulting medical men of the Imperial University, who did not belong to the army organization and were not under its orders directly but who devoted a great deal of their time to this humane work. This gave each medical officer the supervision of more than fifty patients. The wards were so divided that every two were in charge of a chief steward, sergeants in rank but divided into three grades. These men, with the assistance of some of the nurses, kept all the necessary daily records, and in this connection it should be stated that a patient travelled with the history of his case accompanying him. For example, when wounded or sick he was en- tered at the Field Hospital, where the history of his case began, in duplicate; after which he was sent back](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24849881_0064.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
