WOUNDED AND MEASLES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2501, 30 June 1915, Page 8

WOUNDED AND MEASLES

'HOSPITAL FULL TO CAPACITY. So far no official communication has been received from Dr. Valintine about the disposition of any section of the wounded men from the Dardanelles) due here in about a fortnight by the Willochra. As a matter of fact the Wellington Hospital is full to capacity at tho present time, and no wounded could,,bej taken,, into any of the institutions'under "the control of the board. During the past three or four- days they Eave-had-to«refuse new batches of measles cases from the Trentham Camp, of which there are now said to bo something like 300 cases. At present Dr. Ralintine and his staff are doing their bfist- to cope with what is proving-to be - a serious epidemio. The fiospital authorities are doing what they can to assist and have placed tie large private residence immediately at the back of the Terrace School (and for so long in--the occupation of Mrs. Henry Blundell) at the disposal of th© Inspector-General) and that place is now being fitted up as a hospital for the reception of measles cases. With batches of men from the camp constantly coming to town on leave aiis; with',';contingents,' of cases under treatment-in differenWparts of the city, it'is hardly surprising to learn that the'.'ntalady is; being ; contracted in the City.

The hard work done by the medical corps at the Dardanelles is described in a letter received by his mother from Sergeant J. Whidburn, of tho Australian 2nd Field Ambulance. He says: "We landed a crowd of our troopa at the Dardanelles last Sunday under heavy lire, shells and shrapnel bursting • all-around us. '' Many were killed before they left the boats; it was just daybreak. I am on a hospital bound for Alexandria. We have aoout 400 wounded "to" look atfer, and are up day and night. I have not rested for four days. We have had a very heavy loss, but tlioy praise the Australians very much. They say never before has such a charge been - made with bayonets. Kitchener s mossage was: 'Good Australians; I am proud of you.' . A court-nurrt-iol acquitted Louis ue Ponthien, the French light-weight pugilist, on a charge of desertion. Do Monthieu was in the Unitpd States when war broke out, and. instead of returning to France to join the colours, he accepted engagements for three fights. When he returned home six months later he was arrested.

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