Base Medical Store
These continual demands on personnel and on medical stores necessitated suitable arrangements, and messages were sent to Australia asking for reinforcements. In addition a large base medical store was established at Heliopolis, and made an independent unit. It became the business of the officer in charge of this store, Captain Johnson, to make up drugs and surgical instruments per 100 patients, and to receive the surplus stores from each of the incoming transports. Two hospital ships were ultimately provided, the Karoola and the Kanowna, and reached Egypt in October.
CASES RETURNED TO AUSTRALIA FROM FEB. 3 TO SEPT. 25, 1915, AND REASONS
| Officers = O. | Other ranks = O. R. | ||||||||||||
| Medically Unfit. | Venereal Cases. | Services no longer | Other reasons. | Change to | Total. | Wounded in Action. | |||||||
| required. | Australia. | ||||||||||||
| O. | O.R. | O. | O.R. | O. | O.R. | O. | O.R. | O. | O.R. | O. | O.R. | O. | O.R. |
| 29 | 2,496 | 1,344 | 5 | 215 | 24 | 49 | 29 | 1,154 | 137 | 5,258 | 52 | 1,571 | |
| 450 also sent | |||||||||||||
| to Malta. | |||||||||||||