Gratifying Statistics
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) SYDNEY, October 25. The casualty and sickness figures of the Australian Army in South Vietnam are extremely gratifying, the Medical Journal of Australia says in an editorial today. Of 220 soldiers wounded in action who survived to reach a medical unit, only six subsequently died, giving a mortality rate of 2.7 per cent—an extraordinarily low figure by the standards of any previous war, the journal says. “The extremely rapid evacuation of wounded by helicopter means that most casualties are in surgical hands well under an hour of being wounded,” the editorial says, adding that another point of satisfaction is the low figure to which the incidence of malaria has been reduced.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31512, 28 October 1967, Page 20
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