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Download or read book The British Journal of Surgery, 1918, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint) written by . This book was released on 2018-01-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The British Journal of Surgery, 1918, Vol. 5 In the Royal Navy, where service in times of peace approximates so closely to the conditions in war, the organization of the Medical Department, in common with that of the other permanent branches, suffers no radical change when hostilities are declared. Such re-arrangements and extensions as occur have been rehearsed to a degree sufficient to test all the machinery required for a rapid mobilization to full war strength. Beyond the redistribution of a limited number of active service medical ranks and ratings, the admission of reservists, temporary service auxiliaries, and volunteers, and the extension of hospital accommodation, there is no disturbance of existing arrangements. The same organization which augments the personnel for the grand manoeuvres of peace time is employed on occasions of war. The Medical Service required for new units and new formations arising during the progress of hostilities, such as the battalions of the Royal Naval Division and the Armoured Car and other detachments serving ashore, is but an extension of that supplying the Royal Marines and the Royal Naval Air Service which is permanently under Admiralty control; while the arrangements for the transport of wounded are but expansions of the system of collecting naval invalids and hospital cases from ports and fleets by hospital ships, a system that has been in existence for many years. The provision of hospital trains for the distribution of wounded to the naval hospitals, and the appointment of medical transport officers to control this service, is practically the only part of the programme of transport that has not been rehearsed. This easy transition from peace to war is in marked contrast to the violent dislocation and re-organization which of necessity attend the mobilization of large military expeditionary forces and the creation of huge armies from raw material. In the Navy, fortunately, the expansion, great as it is, has not proved overwhelming. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.