SERVICE ABROAD

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20414, 26 November 1940, Page 6

SERVICE ABROAD

DOCTORS AND DENTISTS CALLS OF THE WAR Doctors, dentists, nurses and men in holy orders serving overseas with the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force number 283. Attending to the bodily and spiritual needs of the soldiers they are doing a work of great value, and most of them at considerable sacrifice. Many others from these professions also are serving in the mobilisation and training camps in New Zealand. With the expansion of the territorial training scheme, still heavier calls have been made on their services. New Zealand doctors serving with the forces overseas total 118, or approximately 9 per cent of the medical practitioners registered in the Dominion when the war broke out. Except probably for civil engineers formerly employed by the Public Works Department, no other section of professional men has made a larger contribution of service than the doctors. The number of dentists who have left the Dominion and are atached to camps overseas is 24, and 112 nurses are serving outside the Dominion. Chaplains with the forces overseas total 29. The denominational classification is as follows: Church of England, 11; Presbyterian. 7; Roman Catholic, 7; Methodist, 2: Congregational. 1; Salvation Army, 1.