NTENSIVE TRAINING

Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 22, 10 May 1940, Page 3

NTENSIVE TRAINING

/• — ♦ Kirst General Hospital Unit V CAMP AT TRENTHAM lljhe First New Zealand General pital, commanded by Colonel A. C. 'killop, M. 8., nearly 200 strong, will rflfeed overseas- with the second etheof the Expeditionary Force. The . 'onnel of the hospital, with the ex- ■ 'ion of some of the nurses, has coin--3d three months’ training at the t Itral District Mobilization Camp, at gfitham. ■■or the past two months the unit ■ carried on the work of the camp J )ital by which it has been pos5 to give medical orderlies and jUfr personnel some 'experience of Flkvork they are being trained to do. nel .McKillop said in an interview "" 7 the general hospital had been very »Minate in the selection of person- “ A large number of the medical Uffirlies had had previous training in • T vork and that had, of course, re®S'd in improved efficiency in the Bite unit. .. | ranks have attended a series of aW res dealing with the types of dis&Al and injuries they might be called ' to nurse, and also with hygiene, rtion, administration, and many „L special subjects "related to the and maintenance of a general military hospital. These —. ?es have been given in conjuncwith demonstrations of and prac- . .in bandaging, . stretcher drill, the ine ’cation of splints, hospital site ampkion, tent pitching, and many other ■Acai phases of the unit’s work. In .'-ion all personnel have passed igh a course of ordinary soldierincluding squad drill, physical gybing, route marching, and so on. ring the past month a panel of Ires set down to be given by the alist medical officers dealt with - ology; common diseases of the •ntary system, medical treatment .Us cases, typhus, and smallpox, 1 “cal diseases, insect-borne disWj;, diphtheria, Influenza, tropica! , ■s. anaesthesia, diseases of the general administration, and sup-

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