al Gazette.

II.--Although the returns are not complete through absence of returns
for whole weeks in the official publications, we may arrive at the
following conclusions:

1. That the death-percentage in the Camps surpasses all
hitherto-known proportions.

2. That the death-rate amounts to 14 times that of Pretoria,
which has, according to Dr. Stroud, an average of 25 per
thousand per year.

3. That the death-rate among the children confined to the Camps
has increased to an alarming extent.

The Committee, basing their verdict partly on the repeated assertions
of public opinion, on the communications of eye-witnesses, on the
evidence given by certain witnesses in a case before the Military
Court at Pretoria, and finally on the personal observations of four
members of the Consular Corps, to whom permission was granted to visit
the Camp at Irene, feel compelled to believe the principal causes of
diseases, carrying in their train such an abnormal death-rate, to be:

1. The difficulties and misery and privations to which the Boer
families are subject after having been driven from their
farms (their journeys often lasting about 20 days).

2. The insufficient quantity and frequently even bad quality of
articles of food distributed among them. Often the food given
to the children is in every respect inadequate to their
wants.

3. The great fall in temperature during the night.

4. The insufficient protection against cold experienced in the
tents by the healthy population, and all the more by the
invalids.

5. The absence of clothing and blankets.

6. The insufficient providing for invalids and the inadequate
state of medical stores.

7. The want of employees for the sanitary service in the Camps.

In view of the importance of the problem put before the Committee,
they have drawn up the above report and have sent copies of same to
all the members of the Consular Corps.

(Signed) S.S. PITNER.
P. CINATTI.
BN. OSTMANN.

TABLE A

DIRECT CAUSES OF THE DEATHS IN THE CAMPS OF THE IMPRISONED BOERS,
COMPOSED ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER ARTICLES TILL JULY
10TH, 1901.

Diseases. Number of Deaths.

Measles 123
In