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injured amounted to one hundred & fourteen.
The foverment Civil marital is
is nothing. a private house which
a
- large staff of horrital attendants.
sanction the Acting
With
My sa
Superintendent Captain Ducal picked
the well conducted.
more than
has been used as a 1874, and
on
hospital cince this occasion it was
out a number
of
willing to
too small to receive more than twos
F
in addition
the wounded
percons to its ordinary occupants. The Blouint Surgeon acendingly took the responsibility which I ratifich of sending this great mas of the wounded and dying people to the bark, as he said there
was no other place
4
the Gool
a
for
them.
Apart from the fact thirt
was already overcrowded,
• difficulty occurred in providing
prisoners who were
undertake this mort distressing
work.
5.
I am not disposed to
dwell too ininutely upon the only that the prisoners thus undertook. It called for unremitting attention day and night to what speedily became one of
one of the
the most painful
and loathsome tasks I ever saw
performed. Whilst the last batch of the sufferers were
being