_Medical attention._--The camp medical service is staffed by Colonel
E.G. Garner and two Armenian doctors (Arsen Khoren and Léon Samuel).
Four English hospital orderlies are assisted by three Turkish orderlies.
An English dentist visits the camp at the doctor's request.

At the infirmary, which is clean and well looked after, all prisoners
not seriously ill are accommodated with beds having mattresses and steel
springs. The consulting room is well supplied with medicines. Serious
cases are sent to the hospitals set apart for prisoners of war.

From 20 to 30 men come to the infirmary daily for medical attention. All
the cases are entered in a register, which we have examined; after each
name is the complaint and the treatment prescribed.

At the time of our visit there were six lying-down cases in the
infirmary; two with tuberculosis in the first stage (prisoners captured
recently at El Arish); one with diarrhoea; one with conjunctivitis; one
with malaria; and one with a wounded leg.

Of the prisoners in camp 3 per cent. have been attacked by malaria--old
cases from the marshy districts of Turkey, such as Angora Yosgath, for
instance. Nine per cent. have been attacked by chronic bacillar
dysentery; these are treated periodically with anti-dysenteric serum.
Some cases of amibian dysentery are being treated with calomel, salol,
and emetine. Twenty per cent. were affected by ophthalmia due to their
stay in the desert before being captured. These were treated with
sulphate of zinc and protargol.

Four prisoners are suffering from trachoma of old standing. Recent cases
are ordinary ailments, bronchitis and simple diarrhoea.