OUR WOUNDED SOLDIERS.
TREATMENT IN EXOI/AND. ;i
The course through which wounded or;' invalided New. Zealand soldiers pass in* their hospital treatrhent m England, andj afterwards, is described in -the letter of] an Auckland lad, jwhbi '-'has just gones through the The writer] says:— , " ; £ "You -may bo interested: ' to ; hear th,e| system on which our hospitals ai'o work-f ed-now, ahd-I can assure you jthiat. there, is .a system of i a yeW good order m; everything, connected with the New Zea-;. land expeditionary force- m Great Bim-I tain At pfe^erft. As to t'fie- Hospitals, allserious operation cases, arid 'most . stretcher cages,' are admitted -to Walton-^ on-Thanie& -Hospital (No; 2 Senegal)',., and - the lighter ones to BrockenhurW. (No. 1 ! general). There, as soon asj tKe'worst!wises .are mended, they rare 'boarded,' and marked for New Zeallaricl, for work: m the various '"depots, as ; permanently <i unfit men, or for B class, temporarily unfit. If a man is' classified '"'A. he carries on the same as a man not-hoarde-d. The New Zealanders are then either held.at tho ! hospital or eva<;uate<lv to a port on, the coast, to nwait the arrival of a trausrport 'or ho'.-rpital ship. "As soon as the lighter cases have recovered sufficiently, they are discharged : from botli hpspita.ls to convalescence at' Homchurch, and from there; after reaching ; Class '83,' are sent on leave, to, report at the end of 14 days to the vari-': ous command; depots, according to the 1 branch of the 1 service to ' whiolt the patient belongs. Infantry go to Cod-, ford, and thence to SliiW. from which camp they are drafted.' again to France. | Ekch of the hospitals has' auxiliary lios- j pjtala ill jts neighborhood, for the con- ■ valescenco of extra-light cases, and after retiu-nin^ to the main hospital from one of these, a patient xtsuailly proceeds straight to Codford, having done hisi convalescence at auxiliary. All the hospitals and camps are run on business- ! like Hues, arid the organisation is splendid." .'.,,.
OUR WOUNDED SOLDIERS.
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14658, 16 July 1918, Page 2
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