The day before our visit 80 wounded prisoners arrived at the hospital from El Arish in an exhausted and emaciated condition.  We saw each case receive the most suitable treatment.  The apparatus most generally used for dealing with fractures consists of a metal frame with flannel strips stretched from side to side to form a kind of trough.  When the broken limb is in position the apparatus is suspended from the ceiling by means of pulleys.  We have never seen this ingenious arrangement in any German or French hospital; it seems to us to be a very practical idea and likely to prove of great benefit to the wounded.  At the head of each bed is a temperature chart, a diet chart, and a clinical summary of the case.

Special Quarters.—­The operating theatre is well arranged; a sterilising stove is heated by paraffin.  In the wards for prisoners suffering from malaria the beds are enclosed by mosquito nets to prevent the anopheles mosquito infecting itself and then biting other patients or people of the neighbourhood.  Two wards are kept for convalescent cases, who have a dining-room to stay in during the day.

Cases of venereal disease are also confined to separate premises.

The orderlies live in two comfortable tents in the hospital garden, one of which, is occupied by those on day duty, the other by those on night duty.

Hygiene.—­The water is of good quality, supplied from the Cairo water system.  The prisoners can use the well-equipped hot and cold baths at their pleasure.  Invalids wash themselves, or are washed with the aid of bowls.  Convalescents wash at the taps supplied for their use.

The latrines are on the Turkish plan, with automatic water-flush, and discharge into the town drainage.

Food.—­The hospital management employs a contractor to do the provisioning.  The food is prepared in the kitchen by 4 Egyptian employes.  The dietary of the Turkish soldiers differs somewhat from that of the German and Austrian prisoners, in order to suit the palates of each.  For example, the Turks prefer flat loaves, which are baked for them; while European prisoners get what is called English bread, toasted.  Bulgarian curdled milk is prepared for dysentery patients, and the English doctors testify to its good effects.

An ice-box in each pavilion keeps such provisions as must stay there quite fresh.  The diet for invalids is divided into full diet and milk diet.

1.  FULL DIET.
   Breakfast:  Bread; milk.
   Lunch:  Meat stew; vegetables; rice; bread.
   Supper:  Bread; soup; rice; milk.
   Extra, when ordered:  Chicken; pigeon; rabbit; butchers’
   meat; lemons; eggs; cheese; curdled milk.

2.  MILK DIET.
   Breakfast:  Bread; milk.
   Lunch:  Soup; bread; milk; rice.
   Supper:  Bread; milk; sugar.

The quantities of food allowed to invalids are given below: