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* THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 22, 1941

RAID DEATHS LESS THAN ANTICIPATED

ALTHOUGH BRITISH authorities anticipated

a minimum of 30,000 casualties a month among England's civilian population, the figure has never

AMERICANS

totalled more than 12,000 a month during the in- FAVOUR

tensified Nazi air raids, Dr. Philip D. Wilson, chief surgeon of the New York Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled reported.

Dr. Wilson, arrived on the American Export liner Excalibur, which he boarded at Lisbon. He

SHIPS FOR

went to London four months ago as founder and BRITAIN

in a

many

medical director of the American Hospital in Bri- tain, Ltd. During that time he and a group of as- sociates from the United States helped to provide medical treatment for civilian victims of the war.slight

Dr. Wilson, who is also Clinical verse, a plastic surgeon of St. Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Luke's Hospital in New York, who favour sending war mat-

the Columbia University School of Medicine, was attached to the hos- pital at Basingstoke, a town flity miles southwest of London.

Fheumonia Is Feared

went abroad with him.

entire

Although still minority, American voters

more

England

in

"His specialty,"

to Dr. Wilsonerials sald, "is reconstructing faces of young aviators after American ships to-day they have been burned in com- than did so when the war

bat.

He said that

in

doing this u

While the casualty total has been flap of skin bigger than a broke out, surveys by the less than was expected, Dr. Wilsonis cut from the stomach of the American Institute of said, the next few months may be injured man. The skin is then

because of the danger of a general outbreak of pneumonia cases due to living conditions in air raid

critical for the civilian population grafted to the arın, where it is Public Opinion indicate, kept alive by the blood stream, and after a period of about three Dr. George Gallup, the weeks it is brought up and placed over the face.

shelters.

Advanced methods of caring for those suffering from orthopedic wounds have produced excellent results in England, he said.

"We followed a policy of careful neglect. Instead of dressing the wounds each day, plaster of paris was applied as soon as possible, then the wounded part was allow- ed to rest for as long as four or five weeks. Finally we applied sulfathiazole, a new

derivative of sulfanilamide,” he said.

1

SAW HER HUSBAND

FOR 1 DAY

institute's ports.

director,

re-

"This is certain to be one of the biggest issues of the next few months," Dr. Gallup says.

not

"Although the issue has been fully debated as yet, some indication of the trend of public thinking on the subject comes

Last August Grace Kettering from a survey just completed by ham, of Tilney St. Lawrence, Nor- the institute. The results obvious- folk, wed her sweetheart, twenty.ly cannot be taken as the public's

Arthur eight-year-old

final judgment or the William

since the issue is certain to be hotly debated in the future.

cc. at

"I served during the last war before and after the United States Heyhoe, also of Tilney St. Lawren entered and I can

the century-old village appreciate the church. difference between the methods

Next day Heyhoe reported for used then and now," Dr. Wilson declared.

"Because wounds are duty with a Royal Artillery unit, not dressed daily now as they were and in their letters they planned how they would spend his first then, you're not transferring fresh

leave together. Infection into the old wounds. Much pain is eliminated and the infection is controlled."

Dr. Wilson, who specialised In the treatment of orthopedic cases among the wounded, said that there was now a chain of emer. gency hospitals extending all over England,

!

Once he wrote to say that he expected a long week-end, then suddenly the leave was cancelled. He learned that he would have seven days' leave early in Decem- ber. The couple made new plans. Now Mrs. Heyhoe has learned that Arthur had died on active service.

She had not seen him since the

their honeymoon.

"Patients stay in the big hos-first day of what would have been

pitals in the cities for only one or two days in most cases. Then they are moved out to the country to make room for others."

Faces Are "Reconstructed”

"LIVELY' ON THE

ALERT

matter,

"The institute, through a na- tionwide interviewing staff, put this question to a cross-section of

"Since the English have lost the American voting public: many ships, they may not be able to come and get the war materials we make for them. If this proves to be the case, should American ships with used to carry war materials England?'

American crews

be to

The results indicate that public. sentiment is about evenly divid ed, with a slight majority against the proposal.

Yes

No

Undecided

42% 45 13

results

"What makes these especially interesting is their con- "What a lovely job," exclaimed trast with the results of a poll a member at Edmonton Borough' made in September, 1930 the Council meeting, when it was re- first month of the European war. ported that a local doctor received, That survey found an overwhelin- the American three guineas for attending a first ing desire among aid post every time an Alert was voters to keep United States ships

out of the war area, sounded.

He described the work done in reconstruction after facial injuries as "one of the greatest develop- ments" he had observed, stressing The doctor's account was £194. especially the accomplishments in This method of payment has now that field by Dr. John M. Con- been stopped.

FACE TO FACE WITH THE LAW-(right to left), George 'Raft, Flora Robson, Jane Bryan and William Holden, principals in the cast of "Invisible Stripqs," at the King's. The law la re-

resented by Charles Wilson (Jerky,

"The issue of sending ships to Britain has one further aspect which was exploded in

the survey. Should the American Navy he used to guard American ships crossing te England? This issue was put to persons who had voted in favour of sending the ships, with the following result:

"If American ships and Ameri- can crews are used to carry war materials to England. should these shins be marded by our Navy while crossing?'

Vote of Persons. Who Favour Bending American Ships Navy should convey

those ships

Should not

Undecided

82%

12

6

CRIPPLE CLIMBS

70 FT.

1. A crippled youth, Jack Haden, who had only just left hospital, climbed seventy feet up a stack pipe to tackle an Incendiary bomb on the roof of a church in a Mid- lands town.

He kicked the bomb through the slates. It fell into the centre aisle of the church 'and 'set fire to a few chairs--all the damage that was done. A boy of twelve helped him in his climb. ^)..

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