COMPLAINT BY N.Z. DOCTOR
EXAMINATION OF SICK EX-PRISONERS London, Sept. 8. Licut.-Colonel W. H. B. Bull, New Zealand Medical Corps, told the Tuberculosis Association in Bristol that doctors working in prisoner of war hospitals in Germany felt they had been let down by the medical authorities in England. Colonel Bull described the successful fight* he and his colleagues had had with the authorities in Germany to improve the treatment of sick prisoners which 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 examination on their arrival was extremely haphazard. The very things over which the doctors had fought the Germans, our own people were doing.”
Colonel Bull added that since he had returned, he appreciated the difficulties in England and was appalled by them.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 11 September 1945, Page 4
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