The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-24 00:00:00

THE SMYENA HOSPITAL.

(PROM • 111011ZEPSNDINT OP THE DAILY NEWS.)
SMYRNA, Aram 14.
Out of 800 patients landed here in February, 160
have died. Some are ready to return to the Crimea,
but not enough to make it worth while to send a
transport down for them. Can anything show more
strongly the gross blunder the Aberdeen administra-
tion committed in fixing upon Smyrna u the site for
a large hospital P Five days' steaming from the seat
of action would be of itself a sufficient objection to it;
but if this long voyage is to be undertaken, surely a
healthy spot should be found at the end. sot a filthy
towa saturated with fever, the natural product of the
marsh oa which the town is built and the undrained
pollution of its 130,000 inhabitants. Yet a large and
efficient medical staff—a staff Napalm probably to
that of any hospital in the world, if we regard the
reputation of its members—has been sent, under the
auspices of Mr. Sidney Herbert. to contend against
the evil sanitary conditions of the place. A
number of lady nurses were also sent. One
is already dying, if not dead a Mies
Acton or Atkins; several others are ill:: and half the
paid female nurses have been ill already. Dr. Suther-
land, when he inspected the hospital, ordered nearly
a third of the building to be abandoned, so that no
more than 600 men can be accommodated. The
medical staff is large enough foe three times this
number, and it is actually proposed, therefore, not
to move on the medical officers to a healthy sits near
the seat of war, as most common sense men would
expect, but to send out wooden huts to afford in-
creased accommodation for the victims of fever.
Why in the name of all that is rational should not
the huts be sent to Sinope, or to some spot oa the
Bosphorus, or in the Sea of Marmon, and the medi-
cal staff, who are either fretting at their inaction in
Smyrna, or cursing the stupidity of government for
expecting them to cure dimese in a hotbed of fever,
be sent on to a more congenial sphere of action near
the seat of war?

A shock of an earthquake was felt here on the
1 lth ;no damage done. The robbers have reappeared
in the interior in some force, particularly on the
Ephesus road. Au expedition of hospital conva-
lescents is talked of, in pursuit of these worthies.

Pm' es Alexander of Hesse has been appointed
colonel of a Russian regiment of Leann, which is to boar
his name.

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Prim Peter Dolgorooky has jot insect at St.
Petersburg, two colones eshibiting the gesealogy of the
entire body sf the Ranieri nobility, with authentic per-
timbre es to the aright of th 4 families, the pert they hare
woookoll he hiarn. sod the services they have rendered to
the anew owl is Pwfrie. The imperial government favours
this work, its policy just now being to humour the noble
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itesbasesit Slis duties of tit. peat man lately sada Prises
Wateasall. _

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et the utgeirg Cur, an admitted misolisie et the Conseil
et the limply*. The tined Dub Chteatemdse yea a mesa•
bet UMW tin late reign.