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The Woman's Share

NE of the sharpest con-

ward life of Britain in war. time and that of France just before Hitler launched his blitzkrieg, na they strike an observer newly landed in Eng- land. in the part British women are visibly playing in the war effort of their coun- try.

In France, right up to the end of the "false peñce," it was rare to see a Frenchwoman tu uniformi

long in their Lew

BALLBER

blue

cloaks, a few more or less unl formed

Bed women belunging to Cess

refuger relief and other few voluntary organisations, women anbulance drivers (inostly Americans other foreigners | belonging to mixed units formed by private enterprise nis attached to the French Army, were to be seen here and there, but there was wide enrolment nothing like ar

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of young women that has grown sip overnight in Engband

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Just France started this war by the old method of mobilising several inillion of soklires, most of whom were not needed for Im mediate Oghtlog

and had chance, as General de Gaulle tus shown us, of standing at a mines against the army of inchines the Nazis built within the last MIX months, an she went into the con- fet unconsciously burdened with

it

chil anomaly which survived

in hardly any othro elvilised lazi

in 1939. whch even · relatively buckward nations had long recog- nied the politien) rights due to their women if they were to play their full part in the normal daily life of the community (to say nothing of the part expected of them in national cinergency j. the Frenchwoman still had no full or dignißest status as a citizen

First and foremost I know 1 an risking the ancers of the "rock the trudle" school-the French wornan had no vote, either na tion or Jacal She could Inke no legal and Independent part in the election of her (as well as her

TE as IN nation expect

W that only the best in

medical care shall be at the disposal of our wounded men. That is the ideal which is be fore every doctor and nurse, whether man or woman, in the medical services of the fighting Forces or in our bos- pitals at home,

To live up to this ideal re- quires much effort, not only on the part of those who, day after day, are seeking new knowledge of disease and its treatment in our laboratories and hospitals, but also on the part of the doctors whose job it is to put into practice the latest discoveries of science of healing.

the

of

Modern methods of preventing disease and new ways of treating wounds have to be applied under conditions which, in our civil life, we would regard as almost impos sible. Yet, through the dauntless courage and Infinite resource our doctors, on land and sea, ap- plied they are, and with

what wonderful success.

Epidemics have decimated armies in days gone by. We lost more men from typhoid fever in South Africa than from wounds received in action. Yet in France and Belgium in 1914-1910 typhoid fever was a rare disease. The proper steps had been taken render our men, immune from its ravages.

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During the winter just past a widespread epidemic of cerebro- "spinal meningitis swept this coun- try and our army in France. A few years ago thousands would probably have died. Thanks to the use of a new drug discovered in

well-known hospitals, the numbers, who, oled were an infinitely small percentage of those who suffered from the dia- ense. Epidemics such as: choleru have long disappeared, since

A Lesson From The

French

Disaster

husband's rund brother's) repre- sentatives 16 Parliament (either

Serante ot tlar 11 k

Chamber of Deputies) She had no voice la the selekton of local authorities. muyers and muntelpat councillors, ofert of health and the like. though their insk was inainly con- nected with

In- The immediate termals of women as they affect the the upbringing of children and welfare of the family

In a wont, the entire legislative and executive organisation of the Suite lay in the hands of men only, with no obligation to consult the inletesin of

half of the community..

une

We lurve all heard, of course, the stock reply to the ease of the few French protagonists for Won'

the Frenchwunan suffrage that needs no vote since she generally bokis the purse-strings, keeps the accounts of her husband's bustness. ས་ ་་ས and, often as not, "runs" him generally by the exercise of sheer force of character and/or feminine charms

and

in

French soclely was Tearful example of the way in which a section of the community which is dented full equality of rights with the other section will

indirect Ways

That round burster and in so doing will now, quite wheonsciously, the needs of weakness and corruption within The State

The persistent refusal of politi- end equality to women by French- inen whose very sensibility to the sex attractum made them deter- mined to confine their women to the sphere of sex utility exposed these men themselves to a danger of which the more far-sighted among them may well be bitterly conselous 10-day. For ability will

find an outlet, and no one ques- tions the ability of the average Frenchwoman.

But by being forced to exercise whntever talent for political or communal activity she had solely through the medium of her men- folk, she was left with no choler but to make sox-appeal her prin- instrument of policy. The result was a degree of unacknow ledged and suspicious "petticont Influence" on men in high posi tions which is largely responsible Tor

find mistakes

disastera French policy

of

in

Absence

th sex-repression indeed prevalent in Exustand was

blessing to French people; I helped to create the atmosphere of freedom which wi who have ktown France Justly prize Flut this spiritual freedon. when coupled with the refusal of practi- cal freedom to the women of the

form ourly, caused n

of social istortion which could only sup the antional vitality

Modern

French

and writers dramatisi bave made the most of this agreeable but dangerous state With infinite wit and of things skill. to our immense delectution, they portray society in which ndultery

of malter course; Just young

leaving school consider if abnoat a duty to com- plete their eduention by becuninit the lovers of older

wives: men's no middle-aged household (pro- vided the husband can afford the

complete without luxury) is young and pretty mistress

along- side the man's regular partner; and the comedy of manners, not content with the "eternal triangle" pulitely hinted at in the English balit at least on

ม

Theatre.le of mutually

on eternal

unfaithful couples.

So common is this arrangement, not only bebled the Parts Loot- lights, but in real French, or at lenst Parisian, soclety. Uat one s tempted to wonder why French- men go through the trouble of marrying at all, since their rule seems so often to be that Any woman, except the one they have

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DON'T OF WAR

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By Walt Disney

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FUNNY SIDE UP

MEDICAL COLLECT

By Abner Doan

"It won't pay to operate, Mr. Gillion

swallowed is counterfeit!**

one

the married, is

they really need

But what, in times of national crisis like the present, is the out- cure of this Inck of inhibitions? it is simply this, that almost any

French prominent

statesman

likely to be under the influence of BOTIC woman whose relationship with an is unacknowledged, for whom he has no regular respon- sibility, but who is determined to have a finger in the pie of pailties, using her sex Influence to keep it there

names

I

Without mentioning may say that recent French his- tory, culminating in the present tragedy, has been no exception to

AFRAID WOUNDS

three new

Army Doctor here describes

treatments which are saving lives

methods of preventing them were discovered.

We

If the control of epidemie dia- eases has become more effcelive because

can elther prevent them altogether or treat them suc- cessfully when they arise, the methods of treating wor wounds have become even more so.

The experience of the last war showed clearly that, provided the wound or wounds were not mortal, and the percentage of such is low, the surgeon had two great chenies -shock and wound infection, To combat these, surgeons, bacterio. logists and research workers fought hard, but they had not, In 1914- 1018, the knowledge or the re- sources which we have to-day.

has

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ten

During the last

ycars, scientific work, in which this coun try bus played a conspicuous part, provided weapons against these two great enemies which were denied to the

surgeons who during the Great War. Shock in the large majority of wounded men can be fought sue- cessfully. During the last war, it was found that blood transfusion, although then u difficult procedure and

but imperfectly understood, was a real life-saving treatment.

The Spanish campaign demon- strated that blood transfusion could be carried out in the field by using blood which had been taken, from volunteer donors days before and properly stored. The use of stored blood on a a large scale for a British Expeditionary Force required

much organisation, Ingenious plan-

;

ning of the apparatus, and skilled hands to administer the treatment. In the Navy and the Air Force und in uur civil population, similar plans were made.

The very foundation of all these plans was the magnificent response of volunteer blood donors all over the country. There cannot be too many of them. In Flanders, in the actions which were fought by the B.E.F., stures of good British blood were available

all the hospitals behind the lines ready

at

to be used to aid our wounded. It was only at last, when the landing of supplies became impossible, that the stores ran low,

There are thousands of men and women in towns and villages in South-West England who, by giv- Ing of their blood, brought hun- dreds, perhope thousands of our wounded home alive. Blood trans-. fusion had proved its value in the field and the, Arst enemy-shock--· had been checked.

Rissues of the body are now known, They can be given either in tablets or ased us powder to pack into the wound itself.

is

to

Most of the really dangerous microbes are killed off by the druga and the wound can heal

wounded mea rapidly. The spared

the long illness due poisoning by the poisons liberated by the microbes, and he is fit and well in a fraction of the time taken, before these drugs were known.

One microbe which infects wounds requires a different ot- tacit. Lockjaw, or tetanus, caused

ABAER DEAN

that quarter you

this rule.

Underground influence exercised by politicians' mistresses whe were ideal subjects for and conscious or unconscious agents of Nnal propaganda has played

large part in putting France at the mercy of the German leglons.

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The more young women we see marching about in khaki here in war-line, the surer we can be that no part of our national potential

being sted

or waited. And when they have helped England to show the modern way to victory, it will be time for them to ask their sisters across the Channel whether they niso should not insist on their proper shore in the free country that we hope to win back for them,

David Scott

many deaths in France in the Inst war. In this campaign because most of our men were immunised against this disease, it has become as rare as typhoid fever. Given a wounded man within a few hours of his injury, the modern surgeon cun promise almost every one a speedy convalescence.

These are but 起 few of the metitods our doctors use to help our men. Improved ways of deal- ing with fractures so as to give a useful limb afterwards, the Intext methods of treating wounds of the chest, head and abdomen, are ali in use. An Injured lung is no longer a fatal wound and a wound in the brain, now very few In number owing to the use of the Iamiliar "tia hat," can be tackled by experts and treated in many cases successfully in hospitals not far from the front line.

in

All that is best in our medical and surgical skill, our best equipment and the best brains in} our research ·laboratories

bave contributed to make the medical

services of our fighting forces the best in the world.

SEE HOW THEY SHRINK

21′5 225 235 245 255 265 275 285 295

Wound Infection is, and always 'wili

will be; a serious complication of any wound whether received in civil life, on the battlefield or in an ale raid. The first treatment to clean the wound until it is free from gross dirt and fragments of the missiles which caused it: Tal RE are fewer conscientious

21% 21% 198%% 164% 14% 123% 105% F05% -69% 57%

WIERE

objectors among older men. "As each age' 'group registers' for military servios a maller per centage is now shown in compari son with the group before 1.

is done under an appesthetle under proper operating room conditions.

The surgeon now faces the problem of how to kill of the microbes which may still lurk in the wound. Drugs which have the power of destroying these 888 man. 57 per cent the lowest - microbes without hurting the so far 'recorded,"

When the 20%, algned for there were only 1,700 to a total of 810;

When the Zi's and 22's register-

ed both groups showed a perce- taze of conscientious objectors, of 2.1. Blace then the percentage bas atesally dropped,

By the time, the 27's and 28'a were called the percentage in boih- groups was 1.05., After that, the. 79's brought it down with a bump to 09.

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