MASSAGE TREATMENT OF RETURNED SOLDIERS
A department of treatment of returned soldiers which is likely to grow as the number of wounded men in the country increases is that of massage, and, to cope with future requirements, the Defence Department is now preparing to train a number of young men and women 'in this work. The medical school of Otago University and the Otago Hospital will be used. Students will be of two classes, those prepared to enter the school in the. ordinary way, paying a premium of £57 for an eighteen-months' courses and those prepared to enter under the auspices of the Defence Department and undertake work with the military hospitals for three years. The training of the latter will be arranged for by the Defence Department, and on completion of the course they will be assigned to the various military hospitals where there are patients requiring their services. The Department hopes also to obtain the services of as many private massage students as possible. Both men and women will be trained. Massage of a special character will also be undertaken at the orthopoedic hospital to be established temporarily in Christchurch under the care of the orthopoedic unit which has been formed and trained in England.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 14, 16 July 1918, Page 8
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207MASSAGE TREATMENT OF RETURNED SOLDIERS Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 14, 16 July 1918, Page 8
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