An interned Turkish civilian, Abrahim Assan, by calling an employee in a
Constantinople factory, who speaks French and English perfectly, serves
as orderly-interpreter.

An English Red Cross orderly assists the doctor. An Austrian dentist,
formerly in business at Cairo, gives dental attention to the prisoners;
he has a complete outfit of instruments.

The infirmary is well housed in a stone building. It contains a
consulting-room, supplied with a full-flushed lavatory basin; a sick
ward with 6 iron beds, mattress and coverings _ad libitum_; an isolation
ward, and a dispensary.

Only slight cases are treated at the infirmary; serious cases are
removed to Hospital No. 21 at Alexandria, situated within 10 minutes of
the camp, a large modern hospital overlooking the sea.

On the day of our inspection there were in the infirmary 1 prisoner ill
with bronchitis; at the hospital 1 tuberculous case and 1 with a wounded
elbow.

The sanitary state of the camp has always been excellent. Apart from two
relapse cases of dysentery in 1916, there has been neither trachoma,
typhoid, typhus, malaria, nor any other infectious disease. This is
explained by the fact that the interned civilians were not in bad health
before their captivity, as was the case with soldiers who had sojourned
in the desert, whom we saw in the other Egyptian camps.

There had been no deaths in the camp or at the hospital in Alexandria.
The orderly, Abrahim Hassan, told us of his own accord that the sick