Physical description

Spiral bound paperback booklet with a black plastic spine and a clear plastic protective sheet over the cover. The cover is black with a white rectangle template at the bottom of the page. Inside the template is a drawn black and white image of a line of silhouettes of wounded soldiers and the title printed below in white.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'940.41294 / FOR / MED' [handwritten in pencil inside the front cover]
'VICTORIAN BRANCH / LIBRARY / ANZAC HOUSE' [stamped in red ink on the title page]

Summary

This copy is a typed sample draft from a book that was later published under the same title.
It 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,