ROEHAMPTON. The Place where Soldiers' Lost Limbs are Replaced. (By OUR MILITARY EXPERT.) Just as the name Chelsea is to the soldier synonymous with pensions, so the name Roehampton is to him synonymous with lost limbs. For it is at Roehampton that the military hospital is quartered which specialises in supplying artificial legs and arms to the gallant warriors who have unfortunately been deprived of their original ones through the vicissitudes of war. This hospital is known as Roehampton House, and is one of "Queen Mary's Convalescent Hospitals." It is situated in an ideal spot for a convalescent establishment, being within almost a stone's throw of one of the prettiest parts of the Thames- near Richmond, in the County of Surrey; only a few miles, too, from the very centre of the heart of the Empire—London. Its nearness to London is a considerable advantage. The very latest surgical appliances that are placed on the market can thereby be obtained with the least possible delay, as so also can the very cleverest surgical advice. Its pretty environment is an advantage so obvious that it needs no pointing out; suffice it to say that the poor limbless heroes for whose benefit it was chosen fully appreciate it—within, of course, their sadly limited capacity for enjoyment what time they are waiting for the surgical skill and appliances that are to restore to them as nearly as possible their former physical fitness, and also as nearly as possible their former physical appearance.
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Page 3, Streatham News, 27 October 1916, London, London, England.
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