d use.

Churches and public institutions were mainly troublesome from the
necessity of having to improvise sanitary arrangements, and sometimes
the disadvantage of the collection of a large number of men in one
chamber could not be avoided. None the less I cannot look back without
admiration on the temporary hospitals established in the Raadzaal at
Bloemfontein, and the Irish hospital in the Palace of Justice in
Pretoria.

The State schools in the smaller towns of the Orange River Colony also
afforded excellent accommodation as small temporary hospitals.

Private houses, possessing the disadvantages of ill-adapted construction
and the necessity of a considerably increased staff to work them, were
on the whole little used as hospitals. The scattered farmhouses
occasionally afforded shelter to very severely wounded men. In most of
the country I traversed, however, the farms were so wide apart as to be
of little use in this respect; and again, under the special
circumstances, patients left in them might have to be abandoned to the
enemy.

The chief interest during the campaign centred in the working of the
Field and General hospitals.

Two types of Field hospital were employed, one the Home, the other the
Indian. The latter differs from the Home in that in it the bearer
company is attached and consists of Indian natives, and that the
hospital is separable into four sections in place of two only.

The amalgamation of the Field hospital and bearer company into one unit
is much to be desired in the Home service, both for economy of working
and the more equal distribution of duties to the medical officers
engaged. Again the divisibility of the hospital into four sections is
also an advantage. It allows of the advance or the leaving of sections,
in the case of either small expeditions or the presence of a number of
severely wounded men unfit to travel. As far as I could judge, it
necessitates very small addition to the present equipment, and is in
every way desirable.

As to the working of the Field hospitals in the present campaign, it
was universally acknowledged to possess a very high degree of
excellence. The equipment, with small exceptions, proved equal to the
demands made upon it. The mobility of the camps was proved again and
again, and the rules governing their administration evidenced by their
effectiveness the care and experience which have been bestowed on the
organisation of the hospitals.

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