ATOMIC WARFARE CASUALTIES
Army’s First-Aid Course (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 2. Units of the New Zealand Division are to receive first-aid instruction in atomic, biological and chemical warfare. Announcing this today, the Director of Infantry and Training (LieutenantColonel W. R. K. Morrison) said that one course had already been successfully completed at the Medical Corps Depot at Burnham Military Camp, and two more courses would be held in September and October. One Regular Force non-commissioned officer, or one senior territorial non-commissioned officer from each unit in the division would attend these courses.
In the past, only a small proportion of Army personnel had been specially trained to give first-aid to soldiers wounded in battle, but with the realisation that there may be many more casualties in a nuclear attack, new provisions to care for the wounded had been planned. In the instruction courses, emphasis is placed oh the application of dressings and slings, detecting and controlling haemorrhage, treatment of shocks, burns and fractures, and transport of casualties.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28010, 3 July 1956, Page 18
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