need.


_Hygiene._--Everything that has to do with hygiene and the sanitation of
the camp is the province of Lieut.-Colonel E.G. Garner, Medical Office
Inspector of Prisoner-of-War Camps in Egypt.

Water is supplied from the Heliopolis town mains, is of good quality,
and is provided in sufficient quantities.

For toilet purposes the prisoners have the use twice a day of shower
baths and water taps. The floor of the lavatories is sloping cement, and
the water drains away through a gulley between the two rows of baths.
Prisoners can get hot water from the kitchen when they need it. Soap is
supplied _ad libitum_.

For washing their clothes the prisoners have some very convenient
arrangements. Once a week each prisoner's blankets and clothes are
passed through the disinfecting chamber and thoroughly sterilised.
Thanks to this precaution, there is not a trace of vermin to be found in
the camp.

Ten Turkish barbers are occupied in cutting the hair of prisoners and
shaving them in a well-managed barber's shop.

The latrines are clean and numerous enough. Some of them are on the
English system; the rest on the Turkish. They are disinfected daily with
carbolineum. All discharge into the sewers.