THE BRITISH WOUNDED.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 242, 16 November 1914, Page 8

THE BRITISH WOUNDED.

ADMIRABLE ARRANGEMENTS. CONTRAST TO GERMAN METHODS. LONDON, November 14. The medical correspondent of "The Times," writing from Paris, says the arrangements for treating the British wounded are now admirable. There is an excellent hospital train, with kitchens and operating room, to bring the wounded to Boulogne. Sir Almroth Wright has established a bacteriological laboratory at Boulogne, find his researches have already shown that gangrene and septic conditions are due to micro-organisms which only flourish when in a close atmosphere. Surgeons are now keeping all wounds open to allow the air to reach them, and they heal excellently. AMSTERDAM, November 14. The "Telegraaf" quotes from an /article by Professor Ezerny, in a medical journal, showing' the horrors con-i-*.cted with the transporting of the German wounded. Half of the wounds are due to shrapnel, and bits of dirty uniforms are driven into the flesh. Sometimes the men lie for days in trenches half full of water, or packed in dirty trucks previously used to carry horses, forage, and ammunition. Protected from the cold, they make a train journey of from four to six days. In the meantime their wounds remain undressed, and they have little food. In most cases there are no doctors, or orderlies, or properly equipped hospital trains, and there is an insufficient supply of tents.