made of
sawdust and cement, and is covered with palm mats. The windows are
large, and the cubic space per patient ample. The beds are arranged in
two rows and have spring and stuffed mattresses. Blankets are not
stinted. The rooms are scrupulously clean; and the hospital sterilising
chamber serves to disinfect the clothes, which, after being washed and
labelled, are stored in a wardrobe and handed back to the owners when
they leave the hospital. The prisoners have no trouble over them. A
large supply of things for the patients is kept in the laundry.

_Clothing._--The hospital patients wear pyjamas like those of British
soldiers; and, like the latter, convalescents wear a bright blue suit
with white facings and a red necktie. Patients able to sit up have
folding easy-chairs at their disposal.

_Dressings._--The hospital drug department is well stocked. The wounded
are supplied with surgical appliances, and with artificial limbs of the
most perfect make.

The day before our visit 80 wounded prisoners arrived at the hospital
from El Arish in an exhausted and emaciated condition. We saw each case
receive the most suitable treatment. The apparatus most generally used
for dealing with fractures consists of a metal frame with flannel strips
stretched from side to side to form a kind of trough. When the broken
limb is in position the apparatus is suspended from the ceiling by means
of pulleys. We have never seen this ingenious arrangement in any German
or French hospital; it seems to us to be a very practical idea and
likely to prove of great benefit to the wounded. At the head of each bed
is a temperature chart, a diet chart, and a clinical summary of the
case.

_Special Quarters._--The operating theatre is well arranged; a
sterilising stove is heated by paraffin. In the wards for prisoners
suffering from malaria the beds are enclosed by mosquito nets to prevent
the _anopheles_ mosquito infecting itself and then biting other patients
or people of the neighbourhood. Two wards are kept for convalescent
cases, who have a dining-room to stay in during the day.

Cases of venereal disease are also confined to separate premises.

The orderlies live in two comfortable tents in the hospital garden, one
of which, is occupied by those on day duty, the other by those on night
duty.

_Hygiene._--The water is of good quality, supplied from the Cairo water
system. The prisoners can use the well-equipped hot and cold baths at