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The Army's Mason General Hospital at Brentwood. L. I. unit ofthe Pilprim S:at* Hospital ofwhich Dr. Harry J. Worthing, formerly of Ogdensburg is director.was turned over formally to the Medical Corps by the Corps of Engineers Thursday afternoon and was dedicated to the recovery of psychoneurouc casualties from both battle and training areas by May General Norman T. Kirk, the Surgeon Genera!. General and others of the Amrys rapidly grow- ~ ing corps of psychoneurologists.asserted that experience already £ recorded proved that a high percentage of such casualties could' be returned to active duty and1 many more made useful in civilian life. ,4Deccribir.g the results attained in other Army hospitals. General K:rfc said: t* In a recent effort at retraining £ in basic training camps men were : sent from many hospitals, and after a period of training of from c four to ter. weeks, 70 per cent were reassigned to permanent jobs wiriun the Army.** } -Of the Army's current practice of attending emotional casualties -as close as battalion medical sta- ^ tions. usually about a hundred yards behind the Une, he said:The result has been to salvage y from 30 to 40 per cent of emotional breakdowns for further front lire duty. Roughly, an additional -40 per cent can be salvaged for * duty other than combat duty. Still -an additional percentage is sal- ~ vaged for further duty tn theArmv after return to this court-- •try ’*THE BRENTWOOD plant, built -by Une State of New York as a unit of Piicrim State Hospital, j which it adjoins, can house 1.348 patients normally and 2.000 in an c emergency. It has twenty-eight.wards on seven floors in four modem fire-proof pavilions radiating -from central kitchens and mess,c rooms on each floor. It was taken over oy the Army in 1943 before it j had been occupied by the Suite „ and was activiated Jure 12. 1943.It is named after Brig. Ger* Charles Feiid Mason, who had a distinguished career tn the Medical Corps and died in 1922 IThe Armv also has established: at the hospital its special school \ for the training of medical officerstr. psvcholeuroiogy. it already; has 1.000 on such duty and will add the seventy graduates of classes which go through Mason Gen- , era* even' three months. These graduates go directly to the front. The faculty of the school is headed by Co.1. William C. Porter. , * Ger. Kirk, in his dedicatory address. announced that the Medical Corps now has recognized psychoneurology as a division of pro- J fessional service in the surgeon 1 general s office on ar. equal foot- « ing with medicine and surgery. ) i In addition to the constant * baths, shock treatment, complete1' surgical, medical, dental. X-ray and other technical services the j hospitai has established routines of physical and occupational therapy. educational therapy and education. organized and personal- -ized rccreational programs and % the services of a large Red Cross unit all leading to the recondition- -ing of the patients to military and civil usefulness. jCol. Steve C. Odom, MC. presided at the dedicatory exercises as the new commanding officer of the hospital. Ma;. Gen Thomas A.Terry, commanding the Second I Service Command, also spoke, j and a portrait of Gen. Mason by -Sara Whitney Olds was ur.veiled 3 by Gen Mason's granddaughter. Miss Mary Page Mason of Vlr--frir.ia. 3
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Ogdensburg Advance News
Ogdensburg, New York, US
Sun, Jun 25, 1944
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