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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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