Diet for
Ordinary      Milk      Fever
Diet.         Diet.      Patients.
grm.        grm._     grm._

Native bread (baladi)     937          625
Beef                      115          100
Vegetables                120
Rice                      115           50
Milk                      200          800       1,200
Fat                        20
Sugar                      20           25
Salt                       15            5
Pepper                      3            1
Onions                     20
Tomatoes                   10

We examined all these provisions and found them to be excellent in quality.

Sickness.—­Sick prisoners are transferred from the camps to the hospital in specially fitted motor vehicles.  The English doctors without exception praise the patience and brave endurance of pain shown by the Turkish prisoners.  The cases treated in the hospital up to January 2, 1917, the date of our visit, are analysed below.

Turks    Bulgarians    Germans
Tuberculosis               27          0           0
Bacillar dysentery         37          3           2
Malaria                     3          0           0
War wounds                 74          2           4
Anaemia and weakness       30         12           5
Various                    96          5           0
—–­        —–­         —–­
Totals                    267         22          11
===        ===         ===

There is no epidemic disease in the hospital.

Deaths.—­Sixty-six Turkish prisoners died in the Abbassiah hospital between August 8, 1916, and January 1, 1917.

From Dysentery 45
" Tuberculosis 9
" Beri-beri 1
" Malaria 1
" War wounds 9
" Typhoid fever 1
—–­
66
===

In addition, one German prisoner died of pneumonia.  As regards deaths from dysentery, most of the prisoners attacked by the disease came from the Hedjaz, and were in a seriously weak and exhausted condition.

Turkish prisoners are prepared for burial in the manner prescribed by their religion.  They are buried in a Moslem cemetery.  British soldiers from the garrison pay them the last honours, and the prisoners are represented at the cemetery.

3.  Maadi Camp.

(Visited on January 3, 1917.)

The chief camp at Maadi is 9-1/3 miles south of Cairo, on the right bank of the Nile.  All prisoners are taken to it after capture, and thence distributed among the other camps in Egypt.

Strength.—­Five thousand five hundred and fifty-six Turkish non-commissioned officers and men, including 1,200 men recently captured at El Arish in the Sinai peninsula.

No officers are interned in this camp.  Three imaums (priests) were not classed with the officers, as they had served as privates.

The prisoners include—­besides Turks—­Arabs, Armenians, Greeks, Jews from Palestine and Mesopotamia, and some Senoussi.  Only a small number have been captives ever since the beginning of the war; a large proportion come from Gallipoli.  We found among the prisoners a boy 8 years old, named Abd-el-Mohsen, who lives in camp with his father.