BRITISH PRISONERS
N.Z. DOCTOR FEELS LET
DOWN
LONDON, September 3,
Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. B. Bull, JJew Zealand Medical Corps, told the Tuberculosis Association in Bristol that doctors working in prisoner-of-war hospitals in Germany felt that they had been let down by the medical authorities in England.
Colonel Bull described the successful fight he and his colleagues had with the authorities in Germany to improve the treatment of sick prisoners, which had resulted in their hospital at Elsterhorst being regarded as the finest tuberculosis hospital for prisoners in Germany. - *!But we felt very badly about what happened to some of those prisoners ■when they returned to England," he said. "Some with lung cavities told us they were having six weeks with their families and were having a lovely time.
"We had the impression that their examination on arrival was extremely haphazard. The very things over which the doctors had fought the Germans, our own people were doing." Lieutenant-Colonel Bull added that since he had returned he appreciated the difficulties in England and was appalled by them.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 61, 10 September 1945, Page 6
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