ThE Royal Victoria Hospital, Suez, with a capacity to receive 307 patients-one-third in Indian-European privates' tents-was opened on March 2, 1884, in connection with the Suakim Field Force, and received from that date up to the 17th of September 1,211 patients, more than 70 being cases of enteric fever presenting nearly every variety of the disease, from its mildest to its gravest form, with ,an ample field for study. All these last were recorded, and tile temperatures regularly taken. Post-mortera examinations were made
The hospital being situated on a higher level than the principal spring, the water is forced up by a steam-engine. The baths are spacious, and so contrived that the paralytic may be gently let down into them, sitting in an arm-chair. The patients are generally made to stay, daily, about twenty minutes in them. For skin diseases the waters are not taken
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