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...Seagrave joked about the British demands, but when General Stilwell ar rived to take charge of the Chinese arm ies in Burma at the end of March 1942, the doctor promptly asked to be allowed to take care of the Fifth Army in central Burma as well. The general agreed and made him a major. He is now a lieutenant colonel...
Building the Road. Until the war came, Seagrave's worst worry was malaria. Nearly as worrisome were the narrow, precipice-hugging, sandy or muddy roads, which hampered his movements when he wanted to visit an outpost clinic. He was glad to see the building of the Burma Road, but that was heartbreaking too. "Even on that short stretch of road there must have been 10,000 coolies at work. The hillsides were black with them: Chinese, Shans, Kachins. Huge goiters hampered their work. Dozens were lying by the road shaking with fever. In the rockiest parts coolies were tediously...
...Seagrave slept without a mosquito net. He has not been free of malaria since. When the bombing of Rangoon began and the American women and children were ordered out of Burma, Mrs. Seagrave reluctantly agreed to go (she had malaria...
Just Ahead of the Japs. Dr. Seagrave organized a medical unit to work with the British Army. Before he was through he had several small hospitals in eastern Burma, each with a nurse in charge, and a base hospital near the middle. His patients were the Chinese Sixth Army, then holding a 300-mile front. "What kind of men did these British think we were, anyway, giving us a job of that size? After refusing us the dignity of the title of Mobile Hospital Unit they were ordering us to be a whole confounded medical corps!" Two other missionary doctors...
There were more & more patients. The hospital moved back & back. The nurses learned to dive for slit trenches. The weather got hot. Food ran short and was often so poor that Grindlay could not digest it. It began to be time to abandon Burma altogether. Dr. Seagrave began to try to gather up all his people from the outpost hospitals and his old home at Namkham. He corralled nearly all of them. Most of the nurses elected to go along with him to India...