FOR THE FRONT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2436, 15 April 1915, Page 3

FOR THE FRONT

MEN FOR THE STATIONARY . HOSPITAL.. - "The one tiling about, a stationary hospital is that it is not stationary," said a medical officer who was endeavouring to explain .the between a, stationary and a base hospital. _. "A base hospital might be Buckingham Palace or Drury Lane Theatre, but a stationary hospital follows the line and its first essential is mobility," said the medical man. "The first places are the dressing stations right up in the firing. line, where tlie wounded are patched up and sent back to the clearing hospitals which are within sound of the guns as often* as not, and there urgent operations are performed, and a more careful inquiry is made into a lnan's hurts than'is possible in a dressing station. ■ Then' from the clearing hospitals the wounded are sent _ for treatment to the stationary hospitals, which may be a farm-house, a school, church, or some such building, and there > the great bulk of the work is done, and men are patched up as quickly as possible to enable to resume duty. A stationary . hospital has 200 beds, and there are two to each division.

The staff of a stationary hospital (such as is being sent forward complete by New .Zealand) consists of seven medicai men, one quarter-master, one warrant officer, no nurses, 86 men, and 8 officers.

: The men who have been signed on so far for the hospital staff and who are to go into camp on Monday next are:— ■ Sergeant-Major Blacklin, Sergeant L. D. Haggitt, Corporal L. S. Nelson Privates R. J3, Martin, W. R. S. Allan, D. A. Honore, H. S. Hyde, C. T. Jackson, F. H. Miller, A. M. Pratt, S. W. Chrystall, P: C. M'Lareni Five of the Ambulance men who returned from Samoa yesterday have, also 'handed in their names for enrolment.-

YESTERDAY'S RECRUITS. Yesterday's recruits were:— Sam Hume, farm-hand. William Lewis, labourer. Peter. Nicholson, steward. William Gleeson,-Somes Island guard. Henry Ernest. Tapping, labourer. Dudley Dovey, storeman. Alfred Mason Pratt, clerk. Philip Landsdon Hicks, bacteriologist. Herbert Inkster, clerk. Charles Herbert Wallace, hotel porter. Joseph Vincent Carley, clerk. Edmond James Bridgman, clerk. James Wm. Charystall, clerk. John Harrison, labourer. ( RUGBY PLAYERS. Recently the Wellington Rugby Union asked the city and suburban clubs to furnish returns of their members who had enlisted for active service. The Oriental Club replied that it had forty-seven active members, ■ twelve honorary members, and one life member at present serving the Empire. The Pctone Club forwarded the following list of members who had joined the forces: —Major W. Hardham, V .C., I Captain Dansey, Sergeant F. Mothes, Troopers M'Farlanc, Mothes, Miller, W. Burns, T. Bird, R. Savage, D. Rigby, E. Clarke, A. A. Cairns, Hindmarsh (all with the main body), Troopers Dennehy, Dunford, Sims, M'lntyre, Jowett, Collins', and Smyrke (to Samoa). Also there were about fifteen members of the club doing duty in the forts. The Wellington Club reported that fifty-nine players were on foreign service, and seven on garrison duty, a total of sixty-eight. In addition six honorary, one life, and seventeen old members were serving abroad, so that the club had contributed ninety-two men to the various forces.

Those in Napier who have volunteered for active service, says our Napier correspondent, include J. H. G. Murdoch, barrister, of Sainsbury, Logan mid Williams; W. W. Melheuish, accountant in the Education Board office; Clias. Henty, of Woodward's, chemist, Hastings; Robert .Mawley, sheep-farmer, of RissingtonDonald McK. M'Millan, surveyor, of Napier; Edward Gordon 'Williams, farmer, of J'.ukehou,