Physical description

Small paperback with an orange spine with title printed down it and a white spine label taped to the bottom. The front cover shows a sepia toned image of a group of wounded soldiers on crutches and in wheelchairs with a nurse standing amongst them. There are two orange templates in the top centre of the page with the title information printed inside them in black print.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'940.41294 / FOR / MED' [typed in black print on the spine label sticker]
'940.41294 / FOR / MED' [handwritten in pencil inside the front cover]
'Victorian Branch / RSL / 31.7.96.' [handwritten in blue ink on the title page]
'VICTORIAN BRANCH / LIBRARY / ANZAC HOUSE' [stamped in red ink on the title page and page iii]

Summary

Traces the history of rehabilitation in the armed forces in Australia. This history included the establishment of the Caulfield Hospital in Melbourne. A hospital that has adapted over time and throughout two World Wars, polio outbreaks and up to its recent care of the elderly and victims of accidents,