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BOMBED CIVILIANS. HARD WORK AS ANTIDOTE. LONDON, October 21. Work seems to be the best antidote to bomb-shock, judging from the experiences of military and 'civilian doctors in south-eastern England, which has been more or less a front-line for several months.
Shellshock and war neurosis, so numerous in the last war, are now extremely rare, says a special eo.rres-. pondent of the “Daily Telegraph,” who made a survey in this, field* He quotes a doctor in charge of one of the principal casualty hospitals as saying that / he has encountered only two cases.
One was a soldier continuously shelled in the retreat to Dunkirk, and again on the beach, and the other a young soldier who had been twice bombed ou sentry duty. “Although refusing to express a final opinion,” says the correspondent, “many doctors explain the scarcity of shellshock compared with the last war as due to civilians and troops all working hard. In 1914-18 men were subjected to prolonged bombardment in the trenches with nothing else to occupy their minds.
‘{Another probable factor is that the wars in China, Abyssinia, Poland and Spain prepared civilians for the shock of modern war.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 23, 7 November 1940, Page 4
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