MILK DIET.
  Breakfast:  Bread, 350 grm.; sweetened milk.
  Lunch:  Arab bread; soup; beef-tea; rice pudding.
  Dinner:  Bread, 350 grm.; sweetened milk.

FEVER DIET.
  Breakfast:  Milk, 400 grm., without sugar.
  Lunch:  400 grm. of milk without sugar.
  Dinner:  400 grm. of milk without sugar.

On Sunday and Thursday mutton is replaced by game.  On the same two days a course of sweetened rice and macaroni is substituted for fruit.  The ration of Arab bread is 780 grammes for ordinary diet; that of European bread 450 grammes.  The proportion of other articles is equally liberal.

Clothing.—­The sick men’s garments are consigned to a storehouse, and are replaced by 2 nightshirts, a hospital jacket with a hood, and a pair of slippers.

Hygiene.—­Drinking water is drawn from the town main and filtered before use.  There is an ample installation of lavatories with running water, baths with hot and cold douches, and Turkish baths.  Turkish latrines have been fitted in the annexes of the palace.  Natives do the laundry work and ironing.

Special Quarters.—­The Red Cross Hospital is provided with a spacious, well-lighted theatre for operations, and all the necessary apparatus.  In a neighbouring ward a powerful fumigating stove, built by natives after a French model, enables instruments and dressings to be completely sterilised.  Since the introduction of this perfected method of sterilisation cases of infection and erysipelas have entirely disappeared from the hospital, and post-operation mortality has been reduced to barely one quarter per cent.

There is a laboratory devoted to summary analyses; more complete chemical or bacteriological analyses are carried out in the town institution.  The dispensary is well supplied, containing all the most modern medicaments.

Six wards are reserved for tuberculous cases, who have their own special nurses.  Such consumptives as are not confined to bed pass most of the day in one of the palace gardens which is assigned to them.

One ward is occupied by wounded officers; another by the non-commissioned officers.  Two more wards are set apart for patients suffering from dysentery.  Operation cases are assembled in a special chamber adjoining the theatre.  Three comfortable English hospital tents erected in the garden serve as accommodation for convalescents who have to vacate their beds in the palace when an unexpected influx of sick or wounded prisoners takes place.  All the wards are clean and well kept; at the head of each bed is a medical chart detailing the illness and the temperature.

Sickness.—­Since March 17, 1915, the date of its foundation, up to the day of our visit, the Egyptian Red Cross Hospital has treated 2,245 wounded or sick prisoners.

There are at the present time 149 prisoners under treatment, 8 Ottoman officers and 141 soldiers, distributed as follows: