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Show I I British Hospitals Care For Many . During War NEW YORK, Nov. 2G Hospitals in Great Britain and Ireland have trended trend-ed 2,391,349 British and Indian troops and German prisoners wounded in the various theatres of war. restoring many thousands to health and losing: less than a dozen by accidents In transportation, the British bureau of. Information has announced here in a review of the United Kingdom's modi -1 cal, surgical and nursing work during more than 51 months of war. j Attending to the comfort of the, wpunded "from the moment they became be-came casualties," the statement said, j the British Medical Service "rose bril-, liantly" to a tremendous task and I brought millions of men into England ! by hospital ships and ambulance trains! "with the least possible delay and! suffering." Among the wounded j treated in . the British Isles, it was, said, were -11,819 German officers and! men who were attended with care "In , striking contrast to the treatment met-1 rd out to Allied wounded prisoners in German hands." Wounded British (comprising only part of the total casualties of this class) treated in the United Kingdom since August, 1914, are summarized as follows: From France 105,212 officers, SiEfi 2.048.05S of other ranks; from the J Mediterranean 8,1-H officers. 150.8S4 T'M men; from Italy 373 officers, 4,574. nijS men; from the Persian Gulf 1,214 offi- iTf cers, 16,521 men. Native Indian ifM wounded brought to England numbered mat 36s officers arid 14,182 men. |