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Of approximately sixteen' returned [ servicemen undergoing hospital treat-, ment at the Wanganui Public Hospi- j tai, four are in-patients. Those ex- | servicemen under hospitalisation are I still on Army pay and are kept on Army pay until such time as Uiey are ’ fit for civilian occupations. The returned men who have passed through the army hospital office have had 100 per cent, treatment under I medical hoards and hospitalisation.; The medical superintendent, Mr. H. L. I Widdowson, works in close co-opera-tion with the Army, handling admissions and the medical boarding of | Army personnel. I Recruits for J Force are being medically Boarded. Returned personnel [ from Japan will come under hospitalisation and will be separately boaided by two doctors at the army hospital office, Wanganui.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 20 March 1947, Page 4
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