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In this report, the Director of the St John Ambulance Hospital at Etaples shares the bad news of members of staff who have variously been injured or fallen ill. The Hospital had also been recently spring cleaned, as the fighting had calmed somewhat, which took some time as they were short of workmen. Also included is an incomplete note discussing publishing the work of the Order to support the war effort.
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Army Post Office. S. 11,
British Expeditionary Force,
France.
29/3/16.
My Lord,
I regret to say that the following casualties have
occurred since last I wrote:-
- Captain Collum our Anaesthetist while watching some
soldiers at Bomb practice on Thursday the 16th. inst. was hit
in the back by an exploding bomb. A piece of shell entered
his back and was extracted by Major Maynard Smith the same
afternoon, he has progressed favourably from the first and will
soon be about again. The injury is not likely to cause any after
effects.
- Sergeant Curr, in charge of the Sanitary Squad, was
seized with a stroke on the 25th. inst. and lies here in this
hospital in a serious condition. He is a young man 35. years of
age, of sober and steady habits and such an attack is unusual
under the circumstance and the exact cause has not yet been
arrived at.
- Private Hare, Mess Waiter, has contracted either a mild
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attack of Measles or German Measles and has been taken into
the Isolation Hospital here.
Otherwise the Hospital is going on satisfactorily.
We are taking the advantage of a lull in the fight-
ing to do our spring cleaning. The wards, beds, bedding etc.
are being turned out and thoroughly cleaned and the inside walls
washed with one coat of distemper and the outside walls with
preservative. We have been somewhat delayed by the difficulty
in obtaining workmen but that has now been overcome.
I have the honour to be,
Your Lordships
Obedient Servant,
James Clark
The Director,
The Ambulance Department,
St. John’s Gate,
Clerkenwell. E.C.
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Appendix
17 LENNOX GARDENS,
S.W.
Personnel
Return admissions
“ by Reg ts of admissions
Notes
Average Daily Sick and Wounded
Deaths. Cemetery.
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that the Committee recommended to Council that
the Order publish the work of the
Order and Brigade during the War in add. to
that of the Hospl & that an
Editor at a recommendation be
appointed to write a work there from
