One ward is occupied by wounded officers; another by the
non-commissioned officers. Two more wards are set apart for patients
suffering from dysentery. Operation cases are assembled in a special
chamber adjoining the theatre. Three comfortable English hospital tents
erected in the garden serve as accommodation for convalescents who have
to vacate their beds in the palace when an unexpected influx of sick or
wounded prisoners takes place. All the wards are clean and well kept; at
the head of each bed is a medical chart detailing the illness and the
temperature.


_Sickness._--Since March 17, 1915, the date of its foundation, up to the
day of our visit, the Egyptian Red Cross Hospital has treated 2,245
wounded or sick prisoners.

There are at the present time 149 prisoners under treatment, 8 Ottoman
officers and 141 soldiers, distributed as follows:

Surgical cases (wounds): 66; among them 13 invalids and 6 who have
undergone amputation and have been detained a long time in the hospital.

Internal ailments: 38; we may mention among the most serious cases of
this kind noticed by us, 4 suffering from bilious haemoglobinurea, all
from Bagdad; 6 from dysentery, anaemic and enfeebled patients; 4 from
chronic nephritis.

Eye affections: 25.

Consumptives: 20.