5. The absence of clothing and blankets.
6. The insufficient providing for invalids and the inadequate state of medical stores.
7. The want of employees for the sanitary service in the Camps.
In view of the importance of the problem put before the Committee, they have drawn up the above report and have sent copies of same to all the members of the Consular Corps.
(Signed) S.S. Pitner.
P. Cinatti.
Bn. Ostmann.
TABLE A
Direct Causes of the Deaths in the Camps of the Imprisoned Boers, composed according to the Official Newspaper Articles till July 10th, 1901.
| Diseases. | | Number of Deaths. |
| Measles | 123 |
| Inflammation of the lungs | 50 |
| Dysentery | 45 |
| Inflammation of the bowels | 35 |
| Consumption | 33 |
| Diarrhœa | 29 |
| Bronchitis | 27 |
| Old age | 21 |
| Inflammation of the stomach | 15 |
| Malaria | 18 |
| Cramps | 15 |
| Measles and bronchitis | 14 |
| Typhoid fever | 14 |
| Weakness (Debility) | 13 |
| Heart disease | 12 |
| Croup | 11 |
| Old age | 11 |
| Cramps and inflammation of the stomach | 10 |
| Measles and weakness | 11 |
| Lying-in fever and child-birth illness | 5 |
| Measles and inflammation of the lungs | 4 |
| Inflammation of the brain | 4 |
| Diphtheria | 4 |
| Consumption and measles | 4 |
| Disease of the kidneys | 6 |
| Measles and diarrhœa | 3 |
| Measles and dysentery | 3 |
| Exhaustion | 3 |
| Inflammation of the bowels | 3 |
| Debility | 2 |
| Heart disease | 4 |
| Inflammation of the kidneys and debility, diseases through teething, asthma, influenza | 6 |
| Various | 26 |
| Not classified | 57 |
| | 641 |
| Summary and Percentage |
| | Cases. | Percentage. |
| Simple and complicated measles | 149 | 23 |
| Diseases of the respiratory organs | 106 | 17 |
| Diseases of the bowels | 105 | 17 |
| Fever | 67 | 10 |
| Debility, old age, consumption | 75 | 12 |
| Convulsions | 15 | 2 |
| Debility through old age | 13 | 2 |
| Heart disease | 12 | 2 |
| Not classified | 57 | 9 |
| Various | 42 | 6 |
| | 641 cases. |
TABLE B