A war nurse's diary : sketches from a Belgian field hospital . il and tobuy provisions. It was this ambulance that tookus out to our new sphere of work. The building in which we worked was a largeRoman Catholic College; the principal and profes-sors were still living in it. It was a large ramblingbuilding covering a good deal of ground. Therewere two big courtyards, one of them devoted to themotor-cars and ambulances, which really formed asquadron. Across the inner courtyard from themain part was a building containing two large class-rooms on the ground floor, and upstairs one hugedormitory wh
A war nurse's diary : sketches from a Belgian field hospital . il and tobuy provisions. It was this ambulance that tookus out to our new sphere of work. The building in which we worked was a largeRoman Catholic College; the principal and profes-sors were still living in it. It was a large ramblingbuilding covering a good deal of ground. Therewere two big courtyards, one of them devoted to themotor-cars and ambulances, which really formed asquadron. Across the inner courtyard from themain part was a building containing two large class-rooms on the ground floor, and upstairs one hugedormitory where we all slept. There were othersmall class-rooms round, which served several pur-poses—laundry, wards and operation-theatre. The scene in that great place was one of bustlinglife and activity all the twenty-four hours spite of constant contact with suffering, miseryand death, to us doctors and nurses there was agreat share of happiness and the joy of life. It is The Quaint Hotel de Ville, of Fumes, dating from 1582, wasAlberts Headquarters King. Dunkerque is a wonderful city FURNES 53 a great thing to feel you are fighting death and sav-ing heroes, besides which we were a very happycrowd. There were now twenty-six nurses, mostlynew ones; we had with us the same three medicalstudents and two or three of our former men-doc-tors, but the four lady-doctors had left us, and intheir place we had three or four new men-doctorsand one lady-doctor as an anaesthetist and surgicalstore-keeper. The lady-farmers had left us, and the number ofnon-medical people was reduced to a , for the first time, we had orderlies—the ex-professors became our willing helpers and the mostdevoted and capable attendants of the patients. Icannot speak highly enough of them. These men,who had spent their lives as leaders of classes,cleaned grates, swept floors, scrubbed and attendedto all the menial wants of the patients. By degreesthe younger amongst them were taken by the armyand rep
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