While browsing through the archives of the South Wales Daily News, I came across the following interesting little item, which I thought may be of interest.
Dated 20 th January 1900; p.6:
"WHERE BULLETS STRIKE."
"In what part of the body are our soldiers mostly hit by the Boer rifle fire?
The answer to this question is supplied by a surgical writer at the front in the following analysis of the wounds of 24 officers and 285 non-commisdioned officers and men at the battle of the TUGELA on December 15th:- Head,19; face,7; neck,3; back and spine,20; upper extremity,76; lower extremity,118; other wounds,6. The wounds in the lower extremity thus greatly predominated.
Only eight of the 309 were returned as shell wounds, the rest being without exception caused by Mauser bullets. These bullet wounds are described as " humane in the extreme," and"haemorrhage was conspicuous by it's absence."
Dated 20 th January 1900; p.6:
"WHERE BULLETS STRIKE."
"In what part of the body are our soldiers mostly hit by the Boer rifle fire?
The answer to this question is supplied by a surgical writer at the front in the following analysis of the wounds of 24 officers and 285 non-commisdioned officers and men at the battle of the TUGELA on December 15th:- Head,19; face,7; neck,3; back and spine,20; upper extremity,76; lower extremity,118; other wounds,6. The wounds in the lower extremity thus greatly predominated.
Only eight of the 309 were returned as shell wounds, the rest being without exception caused by Mauser bullets. These bullet wounds are described as " humane in the extreme," and"haemorrhage was conspicuous by it's absence."