A history of United States Army Base Hospital No36 (Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery Unit) organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917 . d severally equipped by the American Red Officers Club is situated in a beautiful villa hidden among the trees, and the Nurses Club,accommodating 200 nurses, and the Enlisted Mens Hut are considered the finest of their type inFrance. Vittel is admirably situated for a Base Hospital, the American Front proper of Alsaceand Lorraine, lying within a radius of 50 to 60 miles and easily accessible by ambulance orhospital train. The town, which
A history of United States Army Base Hospital No36 (Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery Unit) organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917 . d severally equipped by the American Red Officers Club is situated in a beautiful villa hidden among the trees, and the Nurses Club,accommodating 200 nurses, and the Enlisted Mens Hut are considered the finest of their type inFrance. Vittel is admirably situated for a Base Hospital, the American Front proper of Alsaceand Lorraine, lying within a radius of 50 to 60 miles and easily accessible by ambulance orhospital train. The town, which has long been famous as a French resort for mineral springs,was named after the Roman Emperor, Vitellius, and even in that older day its springs were used,remains of Roman baths, a statue of Venus and tripods used for burning incense before thatdeity being found near the present springs. Vittel was the home of Joan Theirselin, god-motherof Joan-of-Arc. A baseball field, a golf course, tennis courts and a beautifully laid out park were at all timesopen to the American soldiers convalescent at Vittel, and did much to mitigate for them the hor-. Personnel of Hospital B. rors of that war which subsided into a far-off but never-ceasing rumble. Hot shower and tubbaths in the Vittel Bath EstabHshment were conducted by the Red Cross, who supervised therecreations of the soldiers, provided them entertainments and movies in the Casino and sawthat they wanted for nothing. Fresh vegetables and meat were provided by the Red Cross100-acre farm. Band concerts and boxing matches were held in the park during the summer. The spontaneous expression of what not only Base Hospital 36 but all the American BaseHospitals meant to the American wounded and broken in battle is perhaps given in this rhyme,written by Richard Scanlon, Co. A, 101 Reg., Rainbow Division, one of the first patients fromthe concentration camps at Neufchateau: The place, oh, just Base ^6, The Building they call B;Regulations cal
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