Excerpt from The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War, Vol. 4: Activities Concerning Mobilization Camps and Ports of Embarkation In connection with the embarkation ports, it is necessary to explain that, whereas the Medical Department activities relating to these ports, as recorded herein, pertained to both the embarkation of troops for overseas and their debarkation when they returned to the United States, since no official change in the designation of these ports was made when their major function changed from the embarkation to the debarkation of troops, this fact does not appear except in the body of the text. Ordinarily, the history of one of these ports would suffice for historical purposes, but, though in theory their problems were very much the same, their experiences Were so divergent as to warrant full treatment of the activities of each, with this exception: Since the activities of embarkation and debarkation hospitals are recorded in Volume V, their detailed consideration does not form a part of this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.