The Medical Laboratory was designed to provide the Army medical service with facilities that were immediately available for certain types of laboratory supplies; supplemental laboratory examinations, and epidemiological and sanitary investigations. Among its specific functions were: routine water analyses, spec...
On 25 June, the outfit moved into a National Guard garage building in Shelbyville, already established as a temporary hospital by the45th Evacuation Hospitaland took over 60 of their patients. More immediately began to pour in and by midnight there were 158. Much was learned during maneuvers w...
it was still necessary for the staff to use initiative for certain items. For example, the T/E did not authorize water tanks or mallets – the latter being essential for pitching large Hospital Ward Tents. Following the instruction of Col. Bourdon, the organization’s carpenters produced...