Abstract
This work, especially from the point of view Of
complete Medical control of the Sanitation and health
of the School, and ultimately a close personal
supervision of the School Athletics became my chief
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interest, and occupied the larger proportion of my
energies until the outbreak of War.
It had been my intention to offer as my
THESIS a record of this work during a period of twelve
years, especially in relation to the pubertal cardiac
development of these boys, and in August 1914 my data
were almost complete, but an absence of nearly six years
with the consequent loss of the post, and of many of
records have rendered this impossible, and therefore
I now present this record of my War Service in its place.
For some years before 1914 I had taken an active
interest in Auxiliary Military affairs, both Volunteer
and Territorial, and was consequently mobilised on
August 5th of that year with the Territorial Force in
my then rank of Surgeon- Captain in the 2nd South
Midland Brigade, R.F.A. In this Unit, however after
a weeks strenuous work, the return of the Surgeon-Major rendered me supernumerary, and I was therefore
ordered to assist my former Commanding Officer in
raising the Second Line of the Brigade. This feat
we accomplished, to the astonishment of Authority in
thirteen days, by the simple expedient of attesting
and Medically examining all the volunteers from the
audiences at our recruiting meetings before their
easily aroused enthusiasm had been allowed time to
cool.
In this new formation I worked for some months,
adding at the Colonel''s request many other Military
and Administrative duties to those of my immediate
profession, and it was while here that I was offered
and accepted the Command of the 2/1st South Mid-Land
Field Ambulance, an unruly and partly mutinous Unit
which had been sadly neglected and was still as
untrained as it was undisciplined.
My THESIS consists of an account of our work
together, and for the convenience of the reader it is
divided under the following heads which narrate our
experiences, illustrate our work, and seek to show,
hat where our methods transgressed the narrow confines
f Official Medical sanction and approval, the violation was both conscious and deliberate, and that it was
n the end justified by its results.
