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A. SHAM SHUI PO.
1. MEDICAL.
The appalling state of affairs inside the camp was attributable to an insufficiency of vitamin and protein containing foods and an entire lack of drugs to treat the cases of illness which broke out inside the camp from time to time. As a result the total mortality during the period under survey, as far as could be ascertained, was one hundred and seven men.
(a) Diet.
The diet, as given below, though said to be improved from what was given at the beginning of the internment, is far from being what an adequate and a disease-resisting one should be, consisted of: (per man per day) ten ounces of bread and ten ounces of rice with an extra two ounces of flour thrown in for cooking purposes. Three ounces of fish were supplied once every three days. liberal amount of greens and sweet potatoes were sometimes given but not at all often enough. Peking dates were very occasionally supplied.
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(b) Dysentery.
Because no
During the month of April or thereabouts an epidemic of dysentery broke out in the camp. Since 50% of the internees contracted the disease the small hospital inside the camp was unable to cope with it. suitable drugs were available the sum total of medical treatment received, as given by Sapper Howarth, who was down with it at the time, were two doses of salts (might be sodium sulphate) and voluntary starvation. quite a number of the men died.
(c) Quinsy.
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As a result,
About two months ago two men MacMaster and died of Quinsy.
(d) Skin diseases.
Owing to the unhygienic conditions prevailing in
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