1019] One Side of War 4o; 



WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 



Friday, January 24, 11)10. 



The Hox. Richard Clere -Parsons, M.A. M.Inst. C.E., 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Colonel Andrew Balfour, C.B. C.M.G. M.D. R.A.M.C. 



One Side of War. 



Colonel Balfour commenced his discourse with the following- 

 remarks : — 



" It is my purpose this afternoon to give you a demonstration 

 on what I have called ' One Side of War.' It is the medical side 

 concerning which I will speak, that being the only aspect of which I 

 have any special knowledge, and, even so, such knowledge is confined 

 to certain sections. 



" Now the Medical Side of War, like all Gaul, is divided into three 

 parts : the strictly medical, embracing hospital administration, clinical 

 and ambulance work of all kinds ; the sanitary, or, as it should be 

 called, the preventive part ; and last, but by no means least, the 

 scientific, which is also largely of a preventive nature. 



" In addition to France and Flanders, of which I saw very little, I 

 have been privileged to visit all the important tropical and sub-tropical 

 theatres of war. As a member of the Medical Advisory Committee 

 I went in 1915 to Egypt, Mudros and Gallipoli. In 1916 I was with 

 that Committee once more in Eygpt and also in Macedonia, Malta, 

 India, Mesopotamia and Persia. Leaving Mesopotamia early in 1917 

 I returned to India, thence to England, and thereafter accompanied 

 Major-General Pike to South and East Africa, my itinerary in the 

 latter comprising Portuguese Territory, the late German Colony, 

 British East Africa and Uganda. From Uganda I travelled via the 

 Sudan to Egypt, and finally, at General Allenby's kind invitation, 

 proceeded to Palestine to see the anti-mosquito operations there. 



" As it is my intention to show you something of all three divisions 

 of the Medical Side of War in most of the countries I have mentioned, 

 it is obvious that the pooner I turn from these notes to the screen 



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