FACIAL INJURIES.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1919, Page 3

FACIAL INJURIES.

TREATMENT OF SOLDIERS. DUNEDIN, May 26. Major Pickerill, when seen by a reporter to-day, cleared up the question that has been asked several times late- j lv why the wounded soldiers who are ! under treatment for facial restoration I I were given leave on returning to tliej j Dominion instead of going at once to the Woodside Auxiliary. The Major jI says that those patients are not so badj ]y deformed as to be forced into seclus- ! ion to save them from being seen. They ; „ere all under treatment at Sidcup !i n England, and there underwent tho earlier*operations, and as a result they

can get about, ill some cases with their , faces partially bandaged. In each case a series of operations was necessnry.—in some as many as half a deceit, and every man had to wait for a certain period. In the worst eases tho; treatment may extend a' couple of j years. Meanwhile, between tho opera-j tions, the men may have a certain I amount of liberty, and as he did not (

know while on the way out with the | lllon what the arrangements here exact-. ’ ly were, and as he had to work to some definite plan, he fixed it up on tho ship that each patient should have leave as soon as ho arrived, and ho prepared them for it accordingly. The Major added, in answer to a direct question, that lie lias no doubt of a complete restoration in every ease. No failures have been recorded.