Medico

Brigadier General Henry C. Pillsbury '02, who has been in army service since his graduation from Harvard Medical School in 1906, is commanding officer of the new 1000- bed Lovell General Hospital at Fort Devens, Mass., which admitted its first patient on June 15. General Pillsbury, who spent years of service in the Philippines, is former chief of X-ray at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington and former chief health officer in the Panama Canal Zone.

Staffing Lovell General Hospital under General Pillsbury are 40 medical officers, 40 army nurses, 235 enlisted men and about 200 civilian employees. All the most difficult and serious cases from army stations throughout New England, from northern New York, and from the tropics, will be brought to this hospital. Preparations have been made to handle all varieties of cases, including psychiatric, and a great deal of attention is being given to recreational facilities for the patients.