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BASE HOSPITAL NO. 19s

Base Hospital No. 19 was organized in March, 1916, at Rochester, N. Y., and was mobilized in the 3d Regiment Armory, that City, on December 17, 1917, where it trained for five months. On June 4, 1918, the organization left New York on the Baltic, arriving in Liverpool, England, June 16, 1918, and in Le Havre, France, June 18. It left Le Havre, June 20, en route to Vichy, Department of Allier, in the intermediate section, arriving there June 22, 1918. This hospital, the second hospital to arrive in Vichy, later formed a part of the hospital center there. It operated in 22 hotels and conducted 12 messes. It began receiving patients July 12, 1918. The normal capacity of the hospital was 3,629 beds, which in crisis emergency could be expanded to 4,114 beds and cots. Largest number of sick and wounded treated at one time was 3,517, on November 12, 1918. This hospital received both surgical and medical cases, the total number cared for being 11,071.

On January 20, 1919, the hospital transferred all its remaining patients and ceased to function. The unit sailed from St. Nazaire on the Freedom, April 13, 1919, arriving in the United States April 28, 1919, and was demobilized at Camp Upton, N. Y., on May 7, 1919.

PERSONNEL

COMMANDING OFFICER

Col. George A. Skinner, M. C., December 23, 1917, to July 19, 1918.
Lieut. Col. John M. Swan, M. C., July 20, 1918, to demobilization.

CHIEF OF SURGICAL SERVICE

Maj. Charles W. Hennington, M. C.

CHIEF OF MEDICAL SERVICE

Lieut. Col. William V. Evers, M.C.

John Mumford Swan (1870)