ADEQUATE HOSPITALS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2510, 10 July 1915, Page 5

ADEQUATE HOSPITALS

REPORT BY SIR F. TREVES By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. July 9, 9.45 p.m.) . London, July 9. Sir Frederick Treves, tho eminentsurgeon, visited the hospitals in Malta, Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said, and Mudros, and unhesitatingly says the arrangements are adequate, and that many beds are unoccupied. There are plenty of doctors and nurses. A number of operating surgeons of the highest class from England, and Australia are at work. The Australian Red Cross is simply magnificent. Sir F. Treves adds: "I had the opportunity of seeing in tho freest possible manner all the arrangements made _in the Mediterranean area for the reception of the sick and wounded from the Dardanelles.- Tho_ Royal Army Medical "Corps;has maintained the high repution it has earned in this campaign, while of the vast colonial medical .corps I can use no stronger terms of praise than by saying tlie Australian army doctor has done as well as his comrade in the fighting line. The casualties aro very great, heavier, I imagine, than was over anticipated. . Owing, to tho sudden arrival of largo convoys of "Wounded, there have been periods of 'Severe pressure and urgent stress, just as in the early days of the: campaign in France. •These dire emergencies were mot lieroic:ally and with no little success, especially when it is remembered the distances wero great and the communications not too easy. The difficulties in connection with the transport were often insurmountable."