HARD-WORKED DOCTORS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 14 June 1915, Page 8

HARD-WORKED DOCTORS

"PATIENTS EVERYWHERE."

<-Dr Colin 7 Chiaholm Ross, writing to . his" mother in North. Sydney,, irom Ge>zirch Palace, Cairo, under date May 1, irives details of the fighting at t£_e Dardanelles. The foJowng. is from . his letter.:—■-* i . , '_ ."You cannot conceive how.busy we hive been .hare.' 'We jiad only one day and a-half to get ready rec ® lve , '. -patients, .without a thing in the place, and : have no t " had* a moment day or poor wounded chaps have simplv been arriving in thousands, and there axe;«Btmfc ,, 2soo in: Cairo .'at present. Save left - Mena to come here ana nx tfe«n ;np. I have only one other medical officer -to help me. It has been a. nhastly week—so many friends gone—and; one >ill be frightened to ; look at the official lists when they come out. _ '•Nevertheless, Australia has ' tne satisfaction,, poor as it may be,- of performing one of the most brilliant bayonet charges- in history. They had to land under a m<wt awful fira m boats, and immediately take a very steep hill, which .was simply, alive with Turks and Germans—the latter were in large numbers* I hear. . And they did it, and five miles of ground i in. bayonet chixges in. eight hours. We are all very proud of. them. Since Sunday week, "the date of .landing, the men, have entrenched: themselves, and the loss oi life ,has been much /less. ■ . "We are at present worJriing like mad, . 'the patienAs axe everywhere, all over th# floors, and in every conceivable corBW dßd- plaoe .that can be utilised. They aro .easily managed, though, and my ' admiration of them goes -up by leaps ' and' bounds. They bear their wounds - like men, and never growl. They seem more-anxious to get back to the firmglmVthan anything else. • • • "The loss of officers, too, has been verv\ l»Tge, and some fine^ things ware done■ for-that reasop. We hear of medi- , /jal' officers , and parsons Wing charges, %A, "th© latter using most unusual language in- ihe process. It is all S n ®: I fancy all thafctypeot fighting is done with now, J&wz they aTe. established.