CIVIL AFFAIRS SERVICE (BURMA) - MEDICAL TREATMENT OF BURMESE IN MANDALAY [Allocated Title]

Some of the civilian population of Mandalay, Burma, are treated for malnutrition, disease and shrapnel and bullet wounds in a temporary hospital.

The hospital building with Burmese people gathered outside; a jeep drives past. A sign reads "Civil. Hospital visits (sic) hours 8 am to 12 pm 4 pm to 6 pm". A Burmese man is vaccinated and a queue is formed behind him. A small child is vaccinated as she is held by her father. A woman is vaccinated; Corporal T J Jones RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps) from Swansea carries out the vaccinations. More Burmese queue. A small boy wearing a straw hat is vaccinated. Several more small children are injected. One small child watches the needle with terror then bursts into tears. Burmese women squat outside the outpatient department. A sign reads "Outpatient Department". Captain G Skinner removes bandages from a patient with a bullet wound. Penicillin is injected into the arm of a woman who has almost gone blind due to malnutrition; her bed is out on the verandah of the hospital in the open air. Captain Skinner and Captain Denlow RAMC discuss a patient. A sign reads "Genarel (sic) Ward". A colour chart is compared to a blood sample by a doctor. Indian orderlies take a patient into the hospital on a stretcher. A Tuberculosis patient is visited by relatives.

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