Forthe continental hospitals, the comparative census of patients is given for 19,indicating the great increase in demand for hospital beds after 7 December 1941. The naval hospitals and hospital ships in commission in 1941 are listed in table 2. TABLE I.- Increase in Medical Department personnel on active duty, 1939-1945. The expansion of personnel that took place is portrayedin table 1. The war already sweeping over Europehad brought forth in 1940 the declaration by President Roosevelt of a Limited NationalEmergency, and reserve medical department personnel who volunteered for service weretherefore ordered to active duty. McIntire (MC) USN, were busily engagedwith plans and problems involved in processing personnel, expanding physical and materialfacilities, and stockpiling supplies for the Medical Department of the Navy to meet theneeds of war, should it involve the United States. Schwartz, Captain (MC) USN (Retired) Continental and Extracontinental HospitalsLong before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the 75 officers, 32 enlisted men, and 225 civilianswho manned the Ill divisions of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery under the directionof the Surgeon General, Rear Admiral Ross T. Navy in World War II Chapter Iįacilities of the Medical Department of the Navy Joseph L. HyperWar: History of the Medical Department of the U.S.
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