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Mr. Kimura, to have my pass renewed. I soon laid in a stock of tinned things for my husband which I carried out from town,' a walk about forty minutes, so I managed to keep him red, although, again, it 1 not the food he required he imperceptibly lost weight and atrength. Dr. T. P. W was Superintendent of the hospital, and he visited my husband regularly and proved r most sympathetic and plessent visitor; his merits as a doctor will be touched on later.
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forire about the middle of February the entire Turopean ataff of stephen's was evacuated to tley Pripon, the exact date I have not noted. They were very much missed, but their going roved, about sixty nine people and gave a great deal more room in the hospital. de fere promptly moved to the Music Room, a very comfortable pleasant room on the first floor and everything we done for our dog fort by Dr. Wy and Wine Lion, the net Matron, a most pleasant and efficient young wózun, Severe also given a small stove, kerosene, so that I could prepare my husband's food, se he could est prectieally nothing or the hospital diet and needed special milk puddings and other things. Through the hospital supply of milk we were able to get 16 oz of milk a day for him. Later on in the month I was lucky enough to find a fine big electric heater in Cat Street, which used for cooking and keeping the room warm, 13 had got gray and bitterly cold by their andɛ the 'rdom wan like en toe bój,
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Dr. Belum-Olark dam to see us occasionally and was very worried about conditione attemley Prison. He said that the food was entirely inadequate, that cut of over 3,000 people, more than 1,600 were sleeping on the bure loop and very enter on stone floors and that the over- crowding was simply shocking, and t-át disease would soon put în an appen2a: ob. He said that the calorie valué of the food they were getting was 1400 calories per day whereas a patient in bed needed 2,4000and a person walking about'ishould have 3,400. Later, in May, it was reported that none of the people at tanley were able to do heavy work more than 2 hours a day without collapsing.
Ny husband and I were getting along as well as could be expected, in fact, considering other people's coraition we were net hudly off at all. I was Tree to rave about at will, and we had enough food, 'nl though for economy's sake I lived on rice and beans for weeks, and found it excellent fer reducing purposes. I lost twenty four pounds, thanks to diet and plenty of exercise, pounds I could well afford to lose. Ma I did not feel hungry, what money we had went for figs for my husband.
GoUnfortunately my one and only pair of walking shoes, I had brought plenty of dress shoes from Chungking, gave out, developed splits across the soles, so I cut out inner soles from a rubber ayron given me by the katron and put them inside in rainy weather, to save the expense of getting them resoled. Prices for timed food were soaring to such a. height that I had begun to be frightened about our money holding out. I had to by practic lly everything my husband ate. I could do well enough of beans and ride, but it was no use for my hur band.
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I discussed thie matter with Hry Laure and asked his help in getting money. He said that I could write a letter to Er. Reeves in Vacao aéking for help, and that he would see that the letter went by sufe hand.
Mr Kimura had been inost eveordinarily Zind in heling the Kro Europeans. The Jaysiness order to evacuats the Peak wee a most cruel and dreadful thing. People were driven out of their houses with just what they could carry. I did not see it myself, but was told about it by Mre. Knipps who did. She said, to see that long line of people walking down the road from the Faak,' hundreds and hundreds of them, women who were pregnant, woman with their babies tied Chinese fashion on their backs, carrying what they could in either hand, with other children running alongside, carrying what bits their small strength could, very often intizely alone because the men of the family were already in concentration camps, women geirtlylborn, coming from good homes in many cases saople you knew. When they were driven out of their homes they were graciously permitted to take what they could carry themselves, no Coolios allowed. And what to take? food for the children, clothes for the children, bedding, valuables, what can one person carry anyway? people who were not accuatomod to carrying anything.
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