Turkish Prisoners in Egypt - A Report by the Delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross by Various
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food insures them a diet suitable to their tastes and customs. The
quantities supplied are calculated upon a very liberal scale. The quality, whether of bread, meat or vegetables, is excellent and constant. The officers' mess is entrusted to private contract. They arrange their own menu. The daily board is very moderate. Well-stocked canteens enable them to obtain additions at prices fixed by the authorities. The sick in hospital have a regimen suited to their condition prescribed by the doctors. The milk provided is of excellent quality. The health department is remarkably well organised everywhere. Drinking water and water for washing purposes are equally abundant. There is an _ad libitum_ supply for douches and baths in every camp. The arrangements for laundering linen are very efficient. Each camp is provided with a disinfecting furnace, linen and upper garments being sterilised once weekly. There are no vermin anywhere. Special pains are taken over the cleansing of prisoners newly arrived from the front. The result of these measures and of the system of vaccination is seen in the entire freedom of the camps from epidemics. Turkish or English latrines are sufficient in number, odourless, and regularly disinfected. In every camp medical attention is given by a staff of first-class English physicians, assisted by Armenian or Syrian doctors; hospital orderlies keep the quarters in perfect order. The infirmaries are spacious, well lighted, thoroughly stocked with drugs and with surgical |
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