THE WOUNDED
ARRANGEMENTS IN EGYPT, ' i The 'procedure for the wounded is as follows' (writes' Captain N. Fitzherbert; officer in: charge' of the" 1 New : Zealand' Records Station at, Alexandria, .in . jhis report to the Minister of Defence, dafc ed May-15):— ■■ . "Tlie -wounded are immediately put ,011 the nearest' available ' ship and brought to Alexandria (forty-eight hours' steam). Immediately oil Arrival they are met: by motor ambulances and a- hospital train which comes on W the wharf. The motor ambulances are used ■for distributing to the various hospitals in and' around Alexandria, The train ■is filled and'.sent to the hospitals at Cairo and Zeitoun. "The first official intimation of casualties is from a list sent in by the medical officer in charge of- each ship on arrival, this list in many cases not giving any' particulars of wounded, etc., and giving no information as to which hospital men are being Bent to. From this list my cable to you is made out. lam thus obliged to wait for the. returns from the various hospitals before I can record the nature of the, wound and the name of the-hospital to which the man lias been' sent. This return I usually receive in the course of a few days/ or, possibly, a week.
"There are sevon hospitals in and around Alexandria, several mifes apart, containing sevoral thousand patients, and New Zealanders are in.all of them. There are also many Now Zealand wounded distributed amongst the Cairo and Zeitoun hospitals. You will therefore 6ee how difficult it is to reply satisfactorily to cables about injuries and progress of men founded. • "The medical authorities are arranging to keep Abbassia Hospital, Cairo, entirely for New Zealand _ casualties. This 'is- all right so fa'r as it goes, but it only holds 400.' . "All the hospitals report dangerous and critical cases, which are -at onco cabled to you. . . . All other cases are to bo considered as improving or progressing well. I should be glad if you would make this known as widely as possible, so that the natural anxiety of relatives may be relieved! to s'omo extent.
"I am gladi to say thero arc-many slightly wounded cases."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2519, 14 July 1915, Page 8
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360THE WOUNDED Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2519, 14 July 1915, Page 8
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