Some of the civilian population of Mandalay, Burma, are treated for malnutrition, disease and shrapnel and bullet wounds in a temporary hospital.

The hospital building with Burmese people gathered outside; a jeep drives past. A sign reads "Civil. Hospital visits (sic) hours 8 am to 12 pm 4 pm to 6 pm". A Burmese man is vaccinated and a queue is formed behind him. A small child is vaccinated as she is held by her father. A woman is vaccinated; Corporal T J Jones RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps) from Swansea carries out the vaccinations. More Burmese queue. A small boy wearing a straw hat is vaccinated. Several more small children are injected. One small child watches the needle with terror then bursts into tears. Burmese women squat outside the outpatient department. A sign reads "Outpatient Department". Captain G Skinner removes bandages from a patient with a bullet wound. Penicillin is injected into the arm of a woman who has almost gone blind due to malnutrition; her bed is out on the verandah of the hospital in the open air. Captain Skinner and Captain Denlow RAMC discuss a patient. A sign reads "Genarel (sic) Ward". A colour chart is compared to a blood sample by a doctor. Indian orderlies take a patient into the hospital on a stretcher. A Tuberculosis patient is visited by relatives.

Notes

The Civil Affairs Service (Burma), (CAS(B)), was responsible for the restoration of civil administration after the British reoccupation. For more film relating to the work of CAS(B), see related items.

Degree of confusion over Captain Skinner's unit, as the dopesheet says he is of the 'Indian Army Medical Service', but no organisation of that name existed. The Indian Medical Service and Indian Army Medical Corps both existed during the Second World War and so it is not clear which is correct, though on balance the latter is probably more likely.