Turkish Prisoners in Egypt - A Report by the Delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross by Various
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Onions 20 Tomatoes 10 We examined all these provisions and found them to be excellent in quality. _Sickness._--Sick prisoners are transferred from the camps to the hospital in specially fitted motor vehicles. The English doctors without exception praise the patience and brave endurance of pain shown by the Turkish prisoners. The cases treated in the hospital up to January 2, 1917, the date of our visit, are analysed below. Turks Bulgarians Germans Tuberculosis 27 0 0 Bacillar dysentery 37 3 2 Malaria 3 0 0 War wounds 74 2 4 Anaemia and weakness 30 12 5 Various 96 5 0 --- --- --- Totals 267 22 11 === === === There is no epidemic disease in the hospital. _Deaths._--Sixty-six Turkish prisoners died in the Abbassiah hospital between August 8, 1916, and January 1, 1917. |
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