WITH THE R.A.M.C

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2858, 24 August 1916, Page 6

WITH THE R.A.M.C

OF DR. W. YOUNG,

■ Dr. "W. Young, of Wellington, who . left New Zealand last year to join ;'■':; the Royal Army Medical Corps in England, ■ has returned to New Zealand. On arrival in England, he>went : to Salisbury Plain, and then to Malta, ■which/at that time was the main base v-hospital for the'troops on Galiipoli. '. -There vrero 25 hospitals with 25,000 imbeds.. Among the.4oo R.A.M.C. offij '■• cers on the island were at least threo w'New Zoalanders, so that New Zea;;laid wounded, of whom there was a K;:fair proportion, nad occasionally the "joy of seeing a .medico from homo. ';'. Outside tne R.A.M.C., the New Zca- .-.; landers had Captain F.B. Mabin, -who ..was doing good worfc in. a convalescent -; camp of 1500 beds, and Captain Tobin, ')-,.. a chaplain, at, one time curate of St. • MarK's, Wollmswa. Captain Tobin, '■said Dr. Young, was a very capable ' and popular msn. "., ..' "yV° rl£ on Malta was anything • but ■.; liglis before Galiipoli was evacuated. 'When Hie bad weather came on suddenly, and there wete 10,000 cases of e position was even.worse. Malta itself Is not a desirable .place, ';■' thought it. Is a paradise in comparison ■ with Kgypt. The weather is hot, ex-. , cect tor th« one winter month of February, and there are insect pests ga- '■/.. lore "Water cannot be drunk until ■ it has Seen boiled or filtered. Despite ■'•. these disae-vautagsa, the medical work 'von tile island was very successful.' In tSO,OOB easea treated up to March ;-«* this year, and including a number ;.;'- or severely wounded and disease cases, trie mortality was only y per cent. ,\Vlicn OallipoH was evacuated the staff -at Malta was Reduced to about onefemrtn of Its former dimensions. The ■■■ island Is now used as a base hospital '"-.'tor' Salonika.

After-leaving Malta, ho visited England, where for three months he was at the big York Sfilitary Hospital.