THE WOUNDED AT THE FRONT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2340, 23 December 1914, Page 5

THE WOUNDED AT THE FRONT

REOR'GANISIED TRANSPORT- - ARRANGEMENTS. "We have received during tie last few days" (the "British Medical Journal" stated at the end of October) "information which enables us to say that the arrangements for the removal _of the British wounded from the fighting line to the base hospitals have now been thoroughly reorganised, and for several weeks nave been working in a manner that may be described as satisfactory In the north, where the battle of. the coast is now going on, ambulance trains are running regularly up to the clearing hospitals, and there is, we are informed on the authority of a very competent witness, no congestion or undue suffering or hardship, although the wounded are arriving in great numbers. The correspondent from whom we have received this information states that he had seen very systematic work for dealing with large numbers of wounded in Manchuria —work quoted as the admiration of. the world —but he is able confidently to assert that the work now going on where our fighting is hardest' surpasses anpthing that has been attempted." The "Journal" also quotes the following statements from a letter written by a military medical officer o£ long- experience , with reference to the British medical arrangements in the north of France: "No praise is too great for the systematic work which is being' done, both in the field ambulances and clearing hospitals, during tho_ heavy; fighting which has been going; on. Every possible arrangement is being made for the comfort of the wounded. You may be satisfied, and everybody at homo, may be satisfied, that any tales intended to cause anxiety to those who have friends and relatives at the front are wicked and untrue. Nobody here seems capable of understanding how the idea got about that there was anything approaching a breakdown of the medical 1 arrangements. The whole system is full of life, zeal, initiative, and vigour. It is capable of bearing a much greater strain than any to which it has been put."