Complex sentence: Without food and little water available and coupled with latrine pits, kitchens and hospital beds crowded into an area of about a square kilometre, dysentery broke out quickly and the sick began to die.
Split into simpler sentences: Without food and little water available and coupled with latrine pits, kitchens and hospital beds crowded into an area of about a square kilometre. Dysentery broke out quickly and the sick began to die.