SINGAPORE HOSPITAL
AUCKLANDER AS O.C.
READY FOR ANY EMERGENCY
Advice has been received in Auckland that Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Craven, M.C., Royal Army Medical Corps, medical superintendent of the Auckland Hospital, is commanding officer of the Alexandra Military Hos% pital on Singapore Island. The Alexandra Military Hospital, which has been fully equipped to meet any emergency, is one of the finest of its type in the world. Planned a few years ago, the great hospital was practically completed before the outbreak of war. Its equipment and facilities are of the highest order. The radiology section has apparatus to deal with all types of X-ray work. Another^ department provides for massage, ultra-violet or infra-red rays, and a specialist handles ear and throat complaints. The operating theatres are air con-' ditioned and the medical and surgical equipment is the most modern in the world. Attached to the hospital is a laboratory in which research and pathological examinations are carried out to safeguard the Services personnel' from disease and infection. j Army personnel undertake the work in the hospital. The wards are in the care of English nursing sisters of the I Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service and the Principal Matron (Far East) has compiled a list of suitably-trained women in Singapore who will be called in to assist when the need arises. Because of the splendid organisation working throughout the country in combating possible sources of danger, there is, little disease among the Services stationed in Malaya. Lieutenant-Colonel Craven, who was appointed superintendent of the Auckland Hospital in 1932, left for overseas a year ago. He had a distinguished Great War record. Going to France in 1915 with the rank of captain in the Ist Northumbria Field Ambulance, he commanded the unit in the later stages of the war and returned from active service in 1919 as lieutenant-colonel. He was awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 37, 12 August 1941, Page 9
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323SINGAPORE HOSPITAL Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 37, 12 August 1941, Page 9
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