350 grm.; sweetened milk.
_Lunch_: Arab bread; soup; beef-tea; rice pudding.
_Dinner_: Bread, 350 grm.; sweetened milk.

FEVER DIET.
_Breakfast_: Milk, 400 grm., without sugar.
_Lunch_: 400 grm. of milk without sugar.
_Dinner_: 400 grm. of milk without sugar.

On Sunday and Thursday mutton is replaced by game. On the same two days
a course of sweetened rice and macaroni is substituted for fruit. The
ration of Arab bread is 780 grammes for ordinary diet; that of European
bread 450 grammes. The proportion of other articles is equally liberal.

_Clothing._--The sick men's garments are consigned to a storehouse, and
are replaced by 2 nightshirts, a hospital jacket with a hood, and a pair
of slippers.

_Hygiene._--Drinking water is drawn from the town main and filtered
before use. There is an ample installation of lavatories with running
water, baths with hot and cold douches, and Turkish baths. Turkish
latrines have been fitted in the annexes of the palace. Natives do the
laundry work and ironing.

_Special Quarters._--The Red Cross Hospital is provided with a spacious,
well-lighted theatre for operations, and all the necessary apparatus. In
a neighbouring ward a powerful fumigating stove, built by natives after
a French model, enables instruments and dressings to be completely
sterilised. Since the introduction of this perfected method of
sterilisation cases of infection and erysipelas have entirely
disappeared from the hospital, and post-operation mortality has been
reduced to barely one quarter per cent.

There is a laboratory devoted to summary analyses; more complete
chemical or bacteriological analyses are carried out in the town
institution. The dispensary is well supplied, containing all the most
modern medicaments.

Six wards are reserved for tuberculous cases, who have their own special
nurses. Such consumptives as are not confined to bed pass most of the
day in one of the palace gardens which is assigned to them.

One ward is occupied by wounded officers; another by the
non-commissioned officers. Two more wards are set apart for patients
suffering from dysentery. Operation cases are assembled in a special
chamber adjoining the theatre. Three comfortable English hospital tents
erected in the garden serve as accommodation for convalescents who have
to vacate their beds in the palace when an unexpected influx of sick or
wounded prisoners takes place. All the wards are clean and well kept;