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Kansas Memory
Conditions at Camp Funston correspondence

U.S. Army Base Hospital
Fort Riely, Kansas.

July 17, 1918.

MEMORANDUM to Commanding Officers

1. Relating to the chares in an anonymous letter in
regard to Section G - the facts are these:

2. The diet is ample, corn bread is sometimes served
but there is an abundance of good food well prepared and meat
is served at least twice daily.

3. There is always some kind of hot drink, ususally
coffee but sometimes cocoa, at least twice daily.

4. The white and colored men are given separate barracks
or tents, except that sometimes when the section becomes
crowded it is necessary to keep them in the same quarters for
a few days.

5. The same instruments are used on all men but they
are sterilized after treating each man.

6. The men in Section G all have either gonorrhoea or
syphills and are improving under the treatment given.

7. In the past ten days more than 150 men have been
returned to duty from this section.

[signature]
J. W. Osborne
Capain, M.R.C.., Hospital
Inspector.

JWO/t

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