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Medicine and Nursing have special staff members who carry out

the training with the help of a Red Cross Curative and Nursing

Unit. For practical teaching of preventive work, the

Department of Preventive Medicine utilizes a refugees camp

and recruit camp. The school itself 18 situated in the

Kwangya Middle School, Changsha.

The courses given are grouped for the purpose of

training four types of field unitat

(1) Ambulance Units (Chiefly for stretchers, first-aid, and

elementary nursing work, with training in preventive

and sanitary practice).

A class of 120 ambulance workers were graduated on

July 29. The purpose of this type of unit is to provide first

aid workers, who can staff a sanitary company or serve as

dressers to take care of the wounded during the inevitable long

transit to the rear. These workers are middle school students,

some of whom have had training and experience in first aid and

dressing. Another class of 150 began their training on July

13. This latter group are to provide the dresser type of

personnel for preventive, curative, and nursing units.

(2) Nursing Units (chiefly for dressing and nursing work,

with training in preventive and sanitary practice).

The personnel of these units are composed of trained

nurses and dressers from civil hospitals.

3) Curative Units (chiefly for surgical work, with

training in medical, nursing, preventive, and sanitary

practice). These units are composed of qualified

doctors, nurses and dressers. In connexion with the

training of Curative Units, a special course on war

surgery is given in the Army Hospital attached to the

school for the benefit of Red Cross doctors who are

not surgical specialists. It has been arranged to

admit to this course medical officers for the Army

who