The times., 1898-09-28
NO CAMP THOMAS.
How the British I'm the Soudnn Trent
the Sick Soldiers.
From the London News.)

ArToH the LondOn NeNs.J
The arrangements made by the army
medical department for the final advance
on Khartoum 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, a man of
great and varied experience has come
specially out to 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-
yenient distance behind the brigades in
some sheltered position. Behind each
brigade are to be five field hospitals each
with one medical officer and accommoda-
ton for twenty-five men. These field hos
pitfalls 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
125 wounded in the field hospitals of each
brigade. There is also a senior medical
officer with each brigade-Lieut Col
Sloggett with Wauchope's, and Lieut.
Col. Hughes with Gen. Iyttleton'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
accommodation has been provided A hos
plta1 mas Deen Dulll OF 1nud DrlckS, Win
walls some three feet thick and lofty
roof, the wards being ceiled with mating
and thickly thatched with Dhurra straw.
1t is probably as cool 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