SAVING THE SITUATION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 47, 20 November 1918, Page 6

SAVING THE SITUATION

PART OP THE MEDICAL MILITARY. Great credit is due'to the medical military for its part in the campaign against the disease. Whilst holding down its own job in the camps, where thousands of men fell ill, it reached out with its spare hand and rendered to the civilian population remarkably fine service. Doctors and .Army Medical Corps men were sent wherever the trouble was thickest. Medicine was made up and sent to all parts of the Wellington province. Working from Defence Headquarters, Major kibbs. rendered the people of Wellington and the peoples of many other places services that cannot be estimated in words. A pfouiinont Labour official, who has been in the thick of affairs since the beginning of the trouble, says: "The Defenco Department saved the situation. Not only that, thoir organisation was very fine. The way they equipped some of the places for us was wonderful." At every hospital one visits one finds men from the ambulnnco branch of tho service at work. TJio departure of a hospital ship was held up, and all hands were ordered to duty in New Zealand. Every medical corps man the Department could get into touch with was called up. The following table shows how in Wellington alone these men are serving the civil community— Alexandra Hall i St. John's 10 Wellington College 10 At chemists 0 Lower Hutt 3 St. Patrick's College 5 Normal School 2 Sydney Street ' 3 St. Andrew's Schoolroom i Porirua C Karori 1 Besides these thore are others on duty at the medical stores, at the Lowry Bay Hosp'itnl, at Miramar, at Headquarters, and in the camps. Others still arc in more distant parts of the Dominion. Major M'lCenzie, Chief Records Officer at Trontham Military Camp, died of in: flueuza yesterday morning.