n the advantages of the public school will develop
the Russian nation.

XXXV

"DOBRA" CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL

Description Of Hospital Building--Grateful Memories--Summary Of Medical
And Surgical Cases--Feeding The Convalescents--Care And Entertainment
--Captain Greenleaf Fine Manager.

The American Convalescent Hospital at Archangel, Russia (American
Expeditionary Forces, North Russia), was opened October 1, 1918, in a
building formerly used as a Naval School of Merchant Sailors. A two and
one-half story building, facing the Dvina River and surrounded by about
two acres of land, over one-half of which was covered with an attractive
growth of white birch trees. The entire building, with the exception of
one room, Chief Surgeon's Office, and two smaller rooms, for personnel
of the Chief Surgeon's Office and the Convalescent Hospital, was devoted
to the American convalescent patients and their care. The half story,
eighty-five by eighty-five feet square, over the main building, was used
for drying clothes and as a store room. The building proper was of wood
construction, with two wings (one story) constructed with 24-inch brick
and plaster walls. The floors were wood, the walls smoothly plastered
and the general appearance, inside and outside, attractive.

In addition to the inside latrines, an outside latrine with five seats
and a urinal was built by our men. This latrine contained a heater.

Nearly all the windows, throughout the building, were double sash and
glass and could be opened for sufficient air, dependent upon the outside
temperature. The first floor ceilings were fourteen feet in height,
those on the second floor were twelve feet high. No patient had less
than six hundred cubic feet of air space.

Large brick stoves, one in the smaller and two in the larger rooms,
heavily constructed and lined with fire brick, heated the building. A
wood fire was built in these stoves twice daily, with sufficient heat
being thrown off to produce a comfortable, uniform temperature at all
times. The building was lighted by electricity. The entire building was
rewired by American electricians and extra lights placed as necessary.
The beds were wooden frame with heavy canvas support. These beds were
made by American carpenters. Each patient was supplied with five
blankets.

During the first four months it was necessary for the men to use a
near-by Russian bath-house for bathing. This was done weekly and a
check kept u