NURSE'S LETTER FROM EGYPT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2549, 25 August 1915, Page 3

NURSE'S LETTER FROM EGYPT

Nurse Stowart, of Masterton, writes from the Egyptian Army Hospital at Cairo to an Eketahuna friend as follows:—'Just a few hurried lines as I am on duty. Some of our nurses are at Alexandria; This hospital has been taken, over by the New Zeilaitd Government and we have New Zealand patients and Now Zealand doctors and nurses. Among the latter aro Drs. Holmes (Wellington), Acland (Cliristchurcii), Widdowson (Chnsfchurch), Campbell (Whangarei), and Agnes Bennett. We work thirteen hours one day and eight the next, which is not bad, but the heat is terrific. Xesterday we went out to Zeitoun Camp and were the guests of Colonel Hall. I will give you the names of tho nurses here. They are: Price, Wilson, M'Ueth, Lowe, Sanson, Harris, Wilkie, Searell, M'Leau, Smailes, Williams, Mitchell, Nutsey, Ingram, Anderson, and Bennett. iSamson and I have .the 6optic surgical wards, Wilson is theatre sister, and Price is in charge of the asceptic ward. There is also an isolation ward for dysentery and typhoid. Some of the New Zealand men disd of sunstroke when we first came hero. "Cairo is a very dirty place, and it is not safe for us to go out without a man. We often go' in the ambulance with the convalescents, when wc are oft duty, to the Pyramids. There is a hospital for the Australians called Luna Park, where they are gathered in in great numbers. The boys (convalescent) often climb the wall and one finds them away in the city in their pyjamas riding donkeys. They don't caro a straw what tiliey do. Sometimes tho Australians pay the black men to have a fight, and it is the greatest fun. imaginable. "We go nearly everywhere ill the Ambulance wagons—it is a sort of protection. Tne convalescents all help with tlie work, and wo have lots of fun when they are getting better. You haven't an idea what it is like when the wounded arrive. Ambulance load after ambulance load—it nearly breaks your heart to see the dear men brought in shattered and sick. Zeitoun Camp is about'three miles away, but thero are not many of the New Zealanders there now. They are either at the Dardanelles or in hospitals. "Everything is very expensive here— I mean afternoon teas, etc.. and the curios have gone up in price. It is not worth while buying them. I enjoyed the trip from London to Egypt more than the one from' New Zealand to London. There were 2000 troops and officers on board, and l we had somo good concerts."-

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