So great was th« demand, however, that the marquees wa_» filled to' overflowing, aaid a tbirtv-man mar. quee was in ono instance p__sd"wath forty. sax patients, and as sickness increased L Ladysmith. this state of affairs grew even' worse. The most was made of each tent by placing the extra patients on shake-downs, squeezed into every possible comer. The denscness and stuffiness of the atmosphem" in ■ these marquees after the flaps had been dosed down all night can scarcely be hra_. ined. It had to be felt to be underetooT lhe cases were chiefly fever and dysentery of varying degrees of severity. It is no re. flection on the hard-working doctors and nurses to say tbat proper attention to each individual case could not possibly be given the nurses and doctors worked with a self, sacrificing devotion worthy of the best tra ditions of their professioiis. The patients however, were -so numerous that it was abaci lutely impossible that each case could ba studied on its own merits and dealt with accordingly. Tbe result was that progress towards recovery was slow, white in _*« instances the parents gave wav witb nai_ ful speed. It must, however, be w___S3 that the doctors and nurses, besides bavins about three time, the amount of work H ought to have had, were short of invalidrf foods and medicines. This fatahV hand! capped them in their work, and it"was bit. terly disappointing to them to see all __. hard work to save the poor feUows throws away for lack of proper medicines andW ishment. Much of the work had neceS_. lly to be left to the hospital orderlies Milk was exceedingly scarce ,owing to the sn_J number of cows left in ladysmith. i?H miserable, bare state of the Veldt. ' V TREATMENT OF PATIENTS The cooking arrangements, by the wa* ■ were primitive in the extreme, and adnS* tered a severe shock to the ideas of _TeS 1 pleteness of the cooking arrangements „_ utensils in the British Amy. *&?££*: antheap served aa an oven and kitchen *_™ combined. Attached to the large ma. 