One man lay unconscious
for several days in the window, his feet in his dinner-plate. At last he
died, his feet still in the dinner. Mr. Berry took on a hydropathic
establishment which had been completed just before the first Balkan War.
This was used as the central hospital, where the staff lodged, and the
most serious surgical cases were nursed. In the basement an
operating-room was rigged up, there were bathrooms, disinfecting-rooms,
a laundry, and an engine-house, where gimcrack German machinery in fits
and starts provided us with electric light and hot water. The village
school on the hill opposite was annexed and cleaned by a sculptor, a
singer, a painter, and a judge of the Royal Horse Show. This was run as
a convalescent home, and was the cause of many a muddy sit down, as it
lay on the top of a greasy hill.
Other large buildings were gradually added, sulphured, and cleaned until
we had six hospitals, one of which was run for some time in connection
with the Red Cross unit.
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