WOUNDED SOLDIERS
COMPLAINT ABOUT WAY RETURNED MEN ARE TREATED. IB.v Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) . Masterton, April 4._ The "Wairarapa Age"_ saye there is serious need for reform in the method of treating returned wounded soldiers. It says the experience of several Masterton and Wairarapa soldiers affords striking proof of this. Three or four wounded men who returned with a recent draft were receiving special massage treatment in England and on the voyage out. They were informed before "leaving the ship that treatment must be continued in New Zealand, or they would probably have stiff limbs for life. On reaching Wellington they were ordered to report at Masterton Hospital, and this they did, but they discovered that there was np apparatus or no masseur at the hospital. Consequently they received no treatment. They have to report at the hospital ence a week, but their wounds are not receiving the reouisite attention, and they ' are gradually becoming worse. The" matter has been represented in strong terms to the Minister of Defence by Sir Walter Buchanan, M.L.C.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 168, 5 April 1918, Page 4
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172WOUNDED SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 168, 5 April 1918, Page 4
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