The infirmary is very commodious.  It consists of a consulting-room, with a couch for examinations; a surgery, and a sick ward.

In the infirmary register the name, the disease, the treatment and the course of the illness are all duly noted.

When the internment camp was opened a hundred prisoners applied for treatment daily; many had suffered great privations previous to their capture.  At the present time only 5 or 10 patients take advantage of the doctor’s visit; and these are mild cases, chiefly bronchitis, constipation, diarrhoea, and eye affections among women and children, and some cases of heart affections and chronic bronchitis among the old people.

There is neither malaria, dysentery nor typhus in the camp, and no epidemic malady.  An early case of tuberculosis, without Koch’s bacillus in the sputa, was cured.

On the day of our visit to the infirmary we found 5 patients in bed or crouched in the oriental manner upon their bedsteads; 1 suffering from senile paralysis, 2 from bronchitis, 1 from inflammation of the ears, and 1 from general debility.

Maternity.—­Confinements not being uncommon, it was necessary to establish a maternity ward.  There were 5 births during the last three months of 1915.  Two more occurred upon the day we inspected the camp, mothers and infants doing well.

Deaths.—­Up to that time there had only been one death at the Citadel Camp, that of a baby prematurely born, which died from debility at the age of 18 days.

Education.—­A school has been started in the camp, and all boys as well as girls up to 12 years old are obliged to attend it.  A mistress teaches them Turkish and Arabic, and also gives them half an hour’s instruction in English daily.

Religious Services.—­The imaum came once to hold a Mahometan service, but the interned women expressed no desire that he should repeat his visit.  However, an old woman, chosen from among them, reads the Koran aloud upon feast days.

Intellectual Diversions.—­The women seem to have no needs or desires on this score.  They pass their days in talking and smoking.

The camp has been presented with a gramophone.

Work.—­This is absolutely voluntary.  The head nurse has organised a little dressmaking class, the wife of a former president, Sir B. McMahon, having given her L10 with which to buy the necessary materials.  The results will be divided equally among those who did the work, but as most of the women have plenty of money they are not energetic over it.

Money.—­Many of those interned had money on them, sometimes a large amount, when captured; the whole of which has been left in their hands.  They often send money through the agency of British officers to their husbands who are prisoners in Maadi Camp, or at Sidi Bishr, near Alexandria.  Others, on the contrary, receive allowances from their husbands.  Some money orders have also come through the International Red Cross Committee.