THE NAZARETH HOSPITAL AT KIMBERLEY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 48, 29 November 1900, Page 5

THE NAZARETH HOSPITAL AT KIMBERLEY.

Recently discussion reached high pitch in England with regard to the treatment of the sick and wounded soldiers in ordinary Government hospitals in South Africa. In the face of the adverse criticisms of those institutions it ia refreshing to hear the hospital managed by the Sisters so highly spoken of by a Presbyterian minister. In a recent issue of the D. F. Advertiser, Kimberley we find the following extract : — 'Before the Hospital Commission in Capetown on Tuesday, one of the witnesses examined, the Rev. Mr. M'Clelland, Presbyterian chaplain in the forces, said he went to Modder River in February As regards the hospital work in the permanent structures this was well done ; witness heard no complaints. In the marquees the wind Bometimes troubled them, and occasionally overturned a tent deferring to the bell tents, the witness said that invalids had to be treated m these because of the marquees being full. It was a time ? l er ? T y deman d on the hospital accommodation, and the men to the bell tents sometimes complained that they would not get rid of their sickness while they continued to lie on the ground So far as he was aware there was no lack of medical supplies. He had often seen convoys arriving, and some of these were in bad condition, there being some complaints that the invalidß were not sufficiently attended to on the way. The worst cases of sicknesa were taken out of the bell tents as quickly as possible and removed to the marquees. He went to Kimberley on March 9. Here there was also a large number of sick, and every available building seemed to have been taken up for hospital purposes. The Nazareth House managed by the Sisters, was especially good, and witness was very much struck by the care, skill, and attention shown by the bißters. This hospital seemed to him to be one of the best he had ever seen The witness spoke of the various hospital buildings he had visited in Kimberley as being on the whole good, and said there was no cause for complaint in the treatment of the sick at Naauwpoort, which place he visited on March 20.'