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The Medical Department : hospitalization and evacuation, zone of interior / by Clarence McKittrick Smith.

by Smith, Clarence McKittrick, Jr., 1913-2002, author.

Washington, D.C. Center of Military History, United States Army, 2013.

United States. Army Medical Department (1968- )

United States. Army Medical Service

Medicine, Military -- United States -- History.

Military hospitals -- United States -- History.

Transport of sick and wounded -- United States -- History.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care.

Electronic Resource

http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo49575

United States Army in World War II. Technical services.

CMH pub ; 10-7.

xxiii, 503 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Part 1. Hospitalization during the Emergency Period, 8 September 1939-7 December 1941 -- Organization and responsibilities for hospitalization -- Planning for and expanding hospitals in the United States -- Plans and preparations for hospitalization in overseas areas -- Part 2. Hospitalization in the early war years, 7 December 1941-Mid-1943 -- Changes in organization and responsibilities for hospitalization -- Hospital plants in the United States -- Early adjustments in the zone of interior hospital system -- Minor changes in hospital administration -- Providing hospitalization for theaters of operations -- Part 3. Hospitalization in the later war years, Mid-1943-1946 -- Further changes in organization and responsibilities for hospitalization -- Adjustments and changes in the zone of interior hospital system -- Bed requirements in the zone of interior -- Estimating and meeting requirements of theaters for hospital beds -- Changes in policies and procedures affecting the occupancy of hospital beds in the zone of interior -- Changes in size and make-up of the staffs of zone of interior hospitals -- Improvements in the internal organization and administration of hospitals in the United States -- Changes in the organization and equipment of hospital units prepared for overseas service -- Hospital construction and maintenance -- Return to a peacetime basis -- Part 4. Evacuation to and in the Zone of Interior -- Estimated and actual requirements for evacuation from theaters of operations -- Development of procedures for evacuation from theaters to the zone of interior -- Movement of patients in the United States -- Providing the means for evacuation by land -- Providing the means for evacuation by sea -- Providing the means for evacuation by air -- Evacuation units for theaters of operation.

"This volume is one of several planned for a series on the history of the Medical Department of the United States Army during World War II. It deals primarily with the logistics of hospitalization and evacuation. As used here, therefore, the term "hospitalization" means all of the instrumentalities -- buildings, equipment, supplies, and personnel -- which directly served sick and wounded soldiers ' in the attempt to restore them to physical fitness; and the term "evacuation" includes all of the means necessary to move patients from one place to another, whether from the battlefield to a hospital in the rear of combat zones, or from one hospital to another in the United States. The professional care of patients is not discussed in this volume... Nor are details of the internal administration and operation of hospitals and evacuation units described here except to the extent necessary to explain the evolution of general policies and practices affecting the system of hospitalization and evacuation as a whole. Also, this volume confines itself almost entirely to events in the zone of interior (that is, the United States)."--Author's original Preface.

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