THE STREAM OF WOUNDED.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 252, 15 July 1915, Page 2

THE STREAM OF WOUNDED.

This week I have been to Southampton to watch the hospital ships come in. In three days there were eight transports of 15,000 tons to be dealt with by the various ambulance corps. It was a never-to-be-forgotten sight. In long, dismal processions, the wounded came ashore to b© drafted to the military hospitals on the South Coast of ngland. The nature of the wounds is often too horrible for description. Tetanus or lockjaw prevails. Frostbite and wounds from shrapnel ar© equally plentiful. Rifle bullets either kill outright or th© wounds heal quickly and leave the patients little the worse. Th© reason of this is in the high velocity, and the fact that the bullet becomes sterilised in its passage through the air. Not so shrapnel, which bursts from a shell, and when it does not kill sets up tetanus or other forms of blood poisoning.