and stuffed mattress. The blankets are warm and
unlimited in number.

_Illness._--Every morning 300-400 prisoners come on sick parade. This
number represents about 8 per cent. of the strength. Although these men
often come to be treated for trifling ailments, such as slight
constipation, or even a small boil, the doctors make it a rule not to
prevent anyone going sick, as this course enables them to keep the
closer watch upon the health of the camp.

On the occasion of our visit there were in the infirmary 7 men laid up:
1 with itch, 1 with diarrhoea, 1 with neuralgia, 1 with an abscess in
the neck, 1 with articular rheumatism, and 1 with gastritis. A prisoner
who had been trepanned by the doctors on account of damage done to his
skull before his capture, was gradually recovering the power of motion
and his normal sensibility.

Since the camp was opened there have been 35 cases of tertian ague, all
from the Hedjaz, Mecca, Taif and Jeddah; but no case of aggravated
malaria. Eleven cases of tuberculosis were sent into the Egyptian Red
Cross hospitals and to that at Abbassiah. Six cases of trachoma are now
undergoing treatment with applications of protargol. In summer there
have been a few cases of ordinary diarrhoea. The camp has not suffered
from dysentery, typhoid, typhus, nor any other epidemic disease.

All prisoners are inoculated against smallpox, typhoid and cholera.

_The Severely Wounded and those who have lost Limbs._--A special
quarter of the camp contains 55 men who have lost limbs in the war. They
are provided with the most perfect prothesis apparatus, jointed
artificial limbs. Among them are 2 blind men. Sixty other wounded who
have escaped more lightly suffer from stiffness of the joints, ankylosis
and atrophy. They are well provided with sticks and crutches.

_Deaths._--Two aged prisoners have died in the camp, both from apoplexy.
They were interred with military honours in the Moslem burial-ground
nearest to the camp.

_Exercise._--No limit is placed upon the time during which exercise may
be taken in the open space round the barracks.

_Work._--The prisoners have not to do work. Several attempts have been
made to teach them boot-making, but their results were so unpromising
that they were given up. Although there are many agriculturists among
the prisoners, it would not do to use them for work on the land along
with the natives, owing to the ease with which they could escape and the
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