Bread 11/4 lb. 
Meat (fresh) 1 lb. 
Sugar 3 oz. 
Coal (or) 1 lb. 
Wood (or) 2 lb. 
Coal and wood 11/2 lb. 
Vegetables 1/2 lb. 
Jam 1/4 lb., or 6 oz. of

                                  vegetables in lieu.

Coffee, milk and other items were also in like generous apportionments.

The clothing issued to the prisoners, as asked for by them, to give the month of June, 1901, as an instance, was: 

Boots         143 pairs
Braces         59 pairs
Hats          164
Jackets       133
Shirts        251
Socks         222 pairs
Trousers      166
Waistcoats     87

and other small sundries.

At Green Point Camp ample hospital accommodation was provided for the sick, and there was a medical staff thoroughly acquainted with the Dutch language and Boer habits.  There was electric light in every ward, as well as all other comforts compatible with discipline.

In the first six months of 1901 only five men died in the Camps, the average daily strength of which was over 5,000 men.  As for the sick, the average rarely surpassed 1 per cent., amongst which were included wounded men, the cripples, and the invalids left behind from the parties of war prisoners sent oversea to St. Helena or other places.

The hospital diet included, as a matter of course, many things not forming part of the ordinary rations, such as extra milk, meat extracts, and brandy.  A suggestive fact in that respect was that though the medical officers in charge of the Camps often appealed to Boer sympathisers to send them eggs, milk and other comforts for the sick prisoners, they hardly ever met with response; and in the rare cases when it happened, it was mostly British officials or officers’ wives who provided these luxuries.

The spiritual needs of the prisoners of war were looked after with consideration; there was a recreation room, and, during the time that a large number of very young Boers were in Camps, an excellent school, in which the headmaster and assistant teachers held teachers’ certificates.  Under the Orange River Colony this school was later transferred to the Prisoners of War Camp at Simonstown, and in both places it did a considerable amount of good.  The younger Boers took very kindly and almost immediately to English games such as football, cricket, tennis and quoits, for which there was plenty of room, and the British authorities provided recreation huts, and goal posts and other implements.  The Boers also amused themselves with amateur theatricals, club-swinging, and even formed a minstrel troup called the “Green Point Spreemos.”

In the Camps there was a shop where the Boers could buy anything that they required in reason at prices regulated by the Military Commandant.  Beyond this, relatives and friends were allowed to send them fruit or anything else, with the exception of firearms.  In the Boer laagers were coffee shops run by speculative young Boers.  The prisoners used to meet there in order to drink coffee, eat pancakes and talk to heart’s content.  This particular spot was generally called Pan Koek Straat, and the wildest rumours concerning the war seemed to originate in it.