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removed to the Baol, I visited the

were

lying

one could

| Growded wards where they and it was with difficulty walk on the floor without clipping

over pieces of flesh and pools of Blood

At midnight I paid

a surprise visit to this improvised hospital, and both day and night I visited it until death had removed mine tenths

the wounded patients. F

Many of the patients, whore wounds

had been, at once, pronounced to be fatal, lingered for five

days, and nothing

Care

or six

"but unceasing"

nurses.

from the temporary alleviated their tortures. After

NQ.

twenty four hours the greater part

of the bodies

of

come of

the patients

vast, sloughing

appeared to consist

ülcers. Eventstrained medical man,

the scene,

the stench and the

groans

of

the dying people, were almost unsupportable, but to the volunteer

muurses unaccustomed to hospital

work it was

evidently very trying. When the whole affair

6.

was over

I spent an

hour and

A

half in the Office of the Gaol

the

going through the cases of fifty six prisoners whore release was then recommended by the Acting Superintendent and the

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