PLASTIC SURGERY
TREATMENT OF SOLDIERS CLINIC IN CHRISTCHURCH Wide possibilities for the assistant of certain types of wounded soldier: who have returned from service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Furol have been opened up by the establishment in Christchurcn of a plastic surgery clinic. Already a few men have ueen sent there Irom the Northern Military Dis-rict. one of them travelling from as far north as Kaitaia, and it can be expected that an increasing How of them will be translerred to the clinic for the benefits it can give them. The clinic is under the command of Major J. J. Brownlee. New Zealand Meuical Corps, who recently toured the various military districts and described the work the clinic hopes to do. It has been opened by the North Canterbury Hospital Board at the Burwood Convalescent Hospital at the request of the Director-General of Medical Services, Brigadier F. T. Bowerbank.
Plastic surgery, including operations to remove or reduce disfigurement, has been available to returned soldiers for a considerable time, but the establishment of the Burwood clinic will place >t on a centralised administrative basis.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 25, 1 February 1943, Page 1
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184PLASTIC SURGERY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 25, 1 February 1943, Page 1
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