On their part, the English officers and non-commissioned officers
declared that the prisoners are well disciplined and very willing. In
short, we took away with us an excellent impression of Heliopolis Camp.




~2. Hospital No. 2, at Abbassiah, near Cairo.~

_(Visited on January 2, 1917.)_


This hospital, on the pavilion system, and arranged in accordance with
the requirements of modern practice, is reserved exclusively for
German, Austrian, Bulgarian and Turkish prisoners of war. It is staffed
by head doctor Wickermann, assisted by four English doctors. Some
English Red Cross nurses and 18 Turkish orderlies attend to the sick and
wounded. These nurses and orderlies are engaged only with treatment. The
rough ward work and cleaning are done by native employés. The pavilions
are built of stone and separated by intervals of 32-1/2 feet. The roofs
are of cement. Along one side runs a covered gallery wherein beds and
arm-chairs are placed for the open-air cure of patients for whom it is
prescribed. The floor of the pavilions is a kind of linoleum made of
sawdust and cement, and is covered with palm mats. The windows are
large, and the cubic space per patient ample. The beds are arranged in
two rows and have spring and stuffed mattresses. Blankets are not
stinted. The rooms are scrupulously clean; and the hospital sterilising
chamber serves to disinfect the clothes, which, after being washed and
labelled, are stored in a wardrobe and handed back to the owners when