~4. The Egyptian Red Cross Hospital at Cairo~.

_(Visited on January 4, 1917.)_


The Egyptian Red Cross, under the presidency of His Highness Prince Fuad
Pasha, being anxious to help its co-religionists, founded in March,
1915, a hospital for sick and wounded prisoners of war. This hospital is
under the sole management of the Turkish Red Cross, which is in touch
with the British authorities through Dr. Keatinge, Professor of the
Faculty of Medicine at Cairo.


_Sanitary Staff._--All the hospital doctors are Egyptian. In addition to
the doctor-in-chief, Dr. Abbas Bey Helmey, two doctors, three surgeons,
and one druggist live in the hospital.

Consulting doctors come from the town when sent for to treat nose, ear
and eye troubles. A Cairo specialist also places his X-ray apparatus at
the service of the hospital patients. The matron is an American, and has
three English nurses under her.

Thirty-two orderlies do the ward work.


_Accommodation._--The Egyptian Red Cross Hospital is installed in an old
palace of Omar-Pasha Lufti, situated in a large garden, which is very
shady and well kept. The dimensions of the wards assure easy circulation