Title: War Surgery and Medicine

Author: Stout, T. Duncan M.

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1954, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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As in the Middle East Force, the medical services in the Pacific Force were alert to all threats to health and active in instituting preventive measures or in educating the individual soldier to protect himself. The incidence of sickness was low, and, benefiting to some extent from the earlier costly experiences of the Americans in the Solomons, the Force achieved a remarkably good record in its minimal number of malaria cases.