UNUSUAL WAR WORK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 91, 18 April 1941, Page 9

UNUSUAL WAR WORK.

GAS GANGRENE RESEARCH. NEW ZEALAND BACTERIOLOGIST. Unusual wartime work in London is being done by Miss M. E. Bowling, formerly of Pahnerston Xorth and Xapier, As bacteriologist technician at St. Thomas' Hospital in London ehe ie engaged in research on gas gangrene formed in war wounds. Several eases of gas gangrene, which was common in the laet war, have occurred among people who have been injured in bombed buildings. Many of them have been trapped and forced to lie long hours 'before they have been rescued. During that time microorganisms, more generally known as bnjrs, that live in the dirt and dust have infected their wounde. As comparatively little is known about this form of infection, specialist research work is being carried, out with modern drugs. "It is most interesting work." said Miss Bowling. This Xew Zealand girl who studied at the Xapier, Palmerston XorUi and Wellington Hospitals, hae now u»-n in England for about three years. During her first year she did locum work for the London County Council. Later, through connections with the Laboratory Technicians' Associatidn, Miss Bowling worked at the X'uffield Institute at Oxford, the Lincoln City Ilealth Department at the Sheffield Royal Hospital, the Bournemouth Clinic Research Laboratory, and for the Kent County Council at Maidetonc. In her spare time Mise Bowling , has been working in the Xew Zealand Y.M.C.A. canteen off Piccadilly Circus, which is managed by her aunt, Mise M. Fossy, of Wellington.