When Surgeon-General Evatt, tho chairman of the Manchester Medical Board, at present engaged in examining "Derby" recruits, published his "Travels in the Euphrates Valley and Mesopotamia," few people thought that the results of his investigations, particularly in regard to water supply, would be of value to British forces in that country over forty years later. But so it seems. It is, however, for his work in more homely matters that Sur-geon-General Evatt stands high in the regard of Tommy Atkins. For years ha "pegged away" at improving the barrack life of the ordinary soldier. One prized reform due entirely to his efforts resulted in tho soldiers' sheets being changed overy fortnight instead of once a month I
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2714, 8 March 1916, Page 6
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117Untitled Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2714, 8 March 1916, Page 6
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