Report of the work of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland South African Hospital / edited by David Wallace and Francis D. Boyd.

Date:
1901
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Credit: Report of the work of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland South African Hospital / edited by David Wallace and Francis D. Boyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EDINBURGH SOUTH AFRICAN HOSPITAL REPORT PTR Baku | ORGANISATION AND ADMINISTRATION THE personnel of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland Hospital embarked at Southampton on the Union Castle S.S. Briton on Saturday, 24th March 1900. The hospital material and equipment with stores and medical comforts were also carried by the Briton, which sailed on the afternoon of that day. The personnel consisted of six medical officers, and Sir James Clark, Bart., the Military Executive Officer, appointed by the War Office; six sisters and a matron from the Army Nursing Reserve Service ; seven dressers and thirty-nine men, together with two women, a laundress and sisters’ maid—sixty-two members in all (v. Appendix 1). Two of the dressers were graduates and the others medical students of Edinburgh University. Through the courtesy of the commanding officer of the Ed. Co. V.MLS. corps, the instructor of that corps (Staff-Sergeant Lloyd) went as quartermaster-sergeant. Fifteen non-commis- sioned officers and men from the Ed. Co. V.M.S.C., who enlisted for a year in the R.A.M.C., were taken as first-class onHeRies The other men had St Andrew’s Ambulance A