‘Hospital Life at Scutari’, Bristol Mercury, 9 December 1854, P. 6.
Year: 2020

There are eight or nine rooms set apart for the women whose husbands are in the Crimea, and no one would believe the scandalous behaviour which they carry on with impunity. Spirits are very cheap, one shilling and twopence for a bottle of brandy, so called, and they are never without several of these bottles by them. I have often gone to the room where most of the women belonging to the cavalry are, for the purpose of getting some shirts made or washed, and on every occasion I have, with no exce