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 malaria, 3 cases of bronchial pneumonia, and 2 cases of dysentery.
As soon as they arrived in camp 25 men were attacked with tertian malaria; 15 are cured, 10 are still being treated with quinine. Of 7 attacked with dysentery 5 are now cured.
Ten men were suffering from trachoma and are still being treated with protargol.
There has been no typhoid fever, nor typhus, nor any other epidemic in the camp.