CPS Unit Number 140-04

CPS Unit Number 140-04

Camp: 140

Unit ID: 4

Title: Metropolitan Hospital

Operating agency: AFSC

Opened: 2 1945

Closed: 10 1946

Workers

Total number of workers who worked in this camp: 29

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  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
    Civilian Public Service, camp 140, Pinehurst, North Carolina. Cpt. Strauss inoculating GP John Troyer; Lt. Robinson observing.
    Photo 125 Box 2, Folder 24. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
    Civilian Public Service, camp 140. Pinehurst, North Carolina. A view of what goes on inside the tent. Dr. Ramelkamp with GP Joe Beachy the victim. In order to avoid any possible contamination, the M.C. from Fort Braff did all the inculating.
    Photo 265 Box 2, Folder 24. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    Men at CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8.
    Manchester University Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Delbert D. Blickenstaff Civilian Public Service Collection
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    Taking a test at CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8.
    Manchester University Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Delbert D. Blickenstaff Civilian Public Service Collection
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    Enjoying a meal together at CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8.
    Manchester University Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Delbert D. Blickenstaff Civilian Public Service Collection
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    Delbert Blickenstaff running on the treadmill at the University of Chicago.
    Manchester University Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Delbert D. Blickenstaff Civilian Public Service Collection
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 4
    Image of a Personnel News newsletter from Camp 140, subunit 4.
    Digital image from the American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service Records (DG 002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
    Guinea pigs: man [Delmar Martin] receiving injection in jaundice experiment, Phila. State Hospital, Phila., Pa., 1945.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
    Injections.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
Summary:

CPS Unit No. 140, subunit 4, located at the Metropolitan Hospital on Welfare Island, New York, subjected COs to experiments on life raft rations.

 

Dr. Charles G. King directed this OSG project on life raft rations sponsored by the Nutrition Foundation in Welfare Island, New York.  The experiment ran from October through December in 1946 and was designed to work with up to fifty men.  Men were isolated in one building and followed an exact diet.  They could not drink water.  Their average weight loss was twenty pounds. 

 

This project may have had its origins in the OSRD project dealing with the same questions at CPS Unit No. 115, subunit 4. 

Location:
Welfare Island, New York, United States