Conditions

To me Montauk Hospital and the whole camp was like a bad dream. I had to use surgical shirts for sheets and improvise many others. The water supply was inadequate and we were unable to get enough to give [patients] the much needed Baths."
-Kittie (Whiting) Eastman

The first nurses to arrive at Army field hospitals frequently found appalling conditions.  Water, medical supplies, linens and even food were often meager or difficult to obtain, as were disinfectants and sterilizing supplies. Patients too weak or sick to move lay unbathed, often without shelter or blankets. A few had bones protruding from their skin while others had dangerously deep bedsores. 

Later when I was at a small hospital in Havana, Cuba I had the responsibility of the patients diets. We were only allowed to spend 23¢ a day for each man.We had about 100 p[atien]ts. On this 23¢ a day we were allowed a ration of meat once a week.
-Rose Heavren

Kittie (Whiting) Eastman Account Republished In Local Newspaper Ninety-One Years Later 

Five news clipping for "The Star-News" newspaper in Cicero, Illinois highlighting the life of Kittie (Whiting) Eastman by featuring excerpts from her memoir about the Spanish-American War. and