The prisoners do their washing in well-fitted wash-houses; a movable
furnace facilitates the weekly disinfection of all the prisoners'
effects.

The latrines, on the Turkish system, consist of movable tubs, emptied
each day by means of a "shadouf," and then disinfected with cresol and
whitewash. There are no smells in the camp.


_Medical Attention._--Dr. Ibrahim Zabaji, a Syrian refugee doctor,
undertakes the medical charge. His work is supervised twice a week by
Lieut.-Colonel Garner and Captain Scrimgeour.

There are 3 Turkish orderlies and 1 Coptic orderly.

The infirmary is clean and well appointed. It is sub-divided into 4
quarters: the consulting room, dispensary, sick ward and isolation ward.

The beds are iron with wire springs, the mattresses stuffed with
vegetable fibre, the number of blankets not limited.

All the men have been vaccinated against smallpox and cholera. We
learned from the infirmary registers that 30-40 men attend daily at 8
o'clock, the doctor's visiting hour.

The advanced age of many of the prisoners, who are suffering from
chronic affections, accounts for this large attendance.

The day we visited the infirmary it contained 8 patients: 3 cases of