BROKEN IN THE WAR.
Something' like 1,100 ease* a month of lost limbs are now coming before the committee of Queen Mary’s Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals at Roelmmpton. Some 4,281 men who have lost a leg, an arm, sometimes both limbs, had passed through its wards, and it has sent out 3,27.1 comfortably titled and supplied with the best substitutes that skill could provide. Men who have lost their limbs are now concentrated in the Pavilion Military Hospital at Brighton, where they an* retained until they are in a fit state to be brought to Koehampton to be fitted with, and taught how to use, their artificial limbs. But at Brighton there is also Queen Man’s worl;shop, given by Her Majesty to enable the men to obtain the preliminary knowledge of various trades during tin 1 period of convalescence, which not only saves time later at Roelmmpton, but constitutes a source of hope and interest to them. Up to the close of September the employment bureau bad placed HIS men in situations, had sent 1,30(1 back to their former occupations, and had referred 1010 to (heir own local committees for f intro employment.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1650, 14 December 1916, Page 4
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192BROKEN IN THE WAR. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1650, 14 December 1916, Page 4
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