MEDICAL SERVICE IN KOREA
N.Z. Officer’s Praise
DARWIN, September 12. Brigadier W. H. B. Bull. DirectorGeneral of the New Zealand Army Medical Services, Who has spent three weeks inspecting the organisation in Korea and Japan, says that the British Commonwealth medical service in the Korean war “is 100 per cent.” The death rate Is 50 per cent, less than the rate In the last war, he says The troops are extremely fit and healthy and have done a marvellous Job. It is not uncommon for wounded New Zealanders to be carcried by a Canadian ambulance, treated at a Norwegian mobile hospital end flown to Japan in a British aircraft. . , . The captain of the Skymaster in which B’-igadler Bull flew from Japan made a short diversion so that Brigadier Bull could see the- wrecked troopship Wahine on the Masela Reef. He says that the ship has not moved since he last saw her, but she appears td be deeper in the water. t .
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26524, 12 September 1951, Page 7
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