Turks Bulgarians Germans
Tuberculosis 27 0 0
Bacillar dysentery 37 3 2
Malaria 3 0 0
War wounds 74 2 4
Anaemia and weakness 30 12 5
Various 96 5 0
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Totals 267 22 11
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There is no epidemic disease in the hospital.

_Deaths._--Sixty-six Turkish prisoners died in the Abbassiah hospital
between August 8, 1916, and January 1, 1917.

From Dysentery 45
" Tuberculosis 9
" Beri-beri 1
" Malaria 1
" War wounds 9
" Typhoid fever 1
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In addition, one German prisoner died of pneumonia. As regards deaths
from dysentery, most of the prisoners attacked by the disease came from
the Hedjaz, and were in a seriously weak and exhausted condition.

Turkish prisoners are prepared for burial in the manner prescribed by
their religion. They are buried in a Moslem cemetery. British soldiers
from the garrison pay them the last honours, and the prisoners are
represented at the cemetery.

~3. Maadi Camp.~

_(Visited on January 3, 1917.)_

The chief camp at Maadi is 9-1/3 miles south of Cairo, on the right bank
of the Nile. All prisoners are taken to it after capture, and thence
distributed among the other camps in Egypt.

_Strength._--Five thousand five hundred and fifty-six Turkish
non-commissioned officers and men, including 1,200 men recently captured
at El Arish in the Sinai peninsula.

No officers are interned in this camp. Three imaums (priests) were not
classed with the officers, as they had served as privates.

The prisoners include--besides Turks--Arabs, Armenians, Greeks, Jews
from Palestine and Mesopotamia, and some Senoussi. Only a small number
have been captives ever since the beginning of the war; a large
proportion come from Gallipoli. We found among the prisoners a boy 8
years old, named Abd-el-Mohsen, who lives in camp with his father.

The camp is divided into 41 sections and 4 quarters. The last are
divided off from one another by barbed wire fences.

_Accommodation._--The q