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260 pages, 8vo (205 x 145 mm), original pictorial card wrapper laid down over new light blue cloth
Mendelssohn 1:225. 'Mr Burdett-Coutts, M.P. for Westminster, decided to pay a short visit to South Africa with a view to ascertaining by personal examination the state of the military hospitals in the early stages of the South African War. He arrived in Cape Town on 6th February, 1900.......his reports and conclusions being sent regularly to the London Times. The most noted of these was 'Article IX', published on June 27th, 1900, which severely criticised the preparations of the Government for the necessities of the sick and wounded of the large army in the field. The author asserts that on May 29th there were 20,000 sick and wounded in the country, and that more than half of these were down with typhoid. He sent the following cablegram to Lord Wolseley, "Returned from front. Terrible pressure sickness. Breakdown in medical arrangements. Doctors, nurses, equipment miserably insufficient. Pitiable scenes entirely falsify statements sent home." The message would appear to have done some good, but the author was severely attacked inside and outside the Houses of Parliament for his strictures on the subject'.
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