The evening times., 1898-09-28
NO CAMP THOMAS.
How the British in the Soudan Treat
the Sick Soldiers.

(From the London News.)
The arrangements made by the army
medical department for the final advance
on hhartoum are most elaborate and
complete. They have been made by Sur
geon General Mcnamara. who has been
and remains p. NJ. o. of the British force.
while Surgeon General Taylor, man of
great and varied experience, has come
specially out 10 exercise supreme control
in both British and Egyptian divisions.
The arrangements made for the treat
ment of the wounded are as follows: A
medical officer is attached to each bat
talon, and one also to the cavalry and
TO each battery of artillery; then from
each battalion, etc, are drawn thirty-two
trained men, who retain their arms ard
can be otherwise used in emergency,
whose business is to pick up and give first
aid to the wounded and convey them to
the field hospitals, which will be at con-
venient distance behind the brigades in
some sheltered position. Behind each
brigade are to be five field hospitals, each
with one medical officer and accommodate
ton for twenty-five men. These field hos
pitals act as one, but are made sectional
in order that the sections may be de-
tached to follow any battalion that may
be acting independently of the brigade.
In all these there is accommodation for
brigade. There is also a senior medical
officer with each brigade-Lieut. Col.
Sloggett with Wauchope's, and Lieut.
Col. Hughes with Gen. Lyttleton's COM
mand
From the field hospitals the wounded
are to be conveyed as soon as possible
after treatment, to barges moored off the
river bank, where there will be accommo-
dation for two hundred men. These
barges are at present engaged in convey.
ing troops to Wad Habashiyeh, our place
of rendezvous, but SO soon as this work
is completed they will be cleansed and
disinfected, and fitted as hospitals. Other
barges will be used for operating pur-
poses.
Two Roentgen ray apparatuSeS (Which
are now here) will be on these barges
OF course, apart from the barges, there
will be other hospital accommodations on
the river bank, and the barges will, if
necessary, ply to and from the Atbara
camp. Between Khartoum and this place
there will be eight lines of communica-
tion hospitals with fifty beds having, of
course, a medical officer attached to each
Surgeon Major Hunter, who until last
year was attached to the Egyptian army,
has charge of these eight hospitals
Here, at the Atbara, ample and special
accommodates has been provided. A hos
pital has been built of mud bricks with
walls some three feet thick and a lofty
roof, the wards being ceiled with mating
and thickly thatched with Dhurra straw.
1t is probably as cool a place as there Is
in the Soudan. Here is accommodation
for two hundred men, but on so generous
a scale that if necessary another fifty or
more could be added without any cramp-
ing to the inmates Men reaching this
hospital get proper hospital clothing and
bedding, and have sheets to their beds
Six medical officers are in charge. There
is another base hospital lower down the
river at Abadeah. Fifteen miles north of
Berber is another big mud brick hospital
with accommodation for 800 men, who
will be looked after by eight medical off,
GERS. Both hence and from the Atbara
camp sick conveys will be made up for
the desert railway journey to Halfa, and
the trains will be specially fitted for con-
veying sick and wounded. At Halfa and
at Assuan, where there are breaks be-
tween rail and river, there will be sever