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ital and bearer company, January 1 to March 31, 1901 3,000 0 0 Sale of Elandsfontein Hospital 9,051 9 6 Bankers' interest to December 31, 1901 1,635 12 9 --------------- L174,012 17 10 From first to last, various staffs numbered over 1,400 persons, and 20,000 patients received medical aid in the different Yeomanry Hospitals. When the staff returned to England, medals were presented to them at Devonshire House by the Queen. DEELFONTEIN BASE HOSPITAL: Opened March 5, 1900; closed March 31, 1901. Originally with 500 beds, subsequently increased to 1,000 beds. 6,093 in-patients, including 351 officers, were treated there. MACKENZIE'S FARM, MAITLAND CAMP, BASE HOSPITAL: Opened August 2, 1900; closed March 31, 1901. Originally with 100 beds, subsequently increased to 150. 1,066 patients treated. EASTWOOD, PRETORIA, BASE HOSPITAL: Opened August 18, 1900; closed September 30, 1901. Originally with 400 beds, subsequently increased to 564 beds. 5,227 in-patients, including 466 officers, and 1,095 out-patients, treated. ELANDSFONTEIN BASE HOSPITAL: Opened June 29, 1901; closed December 19, 1901. Originally with 50 beds, subsequently increased to 138 beds. 823 in-patients, including 27 officers, and 900 out-patients, treated. CHESHAM CONVALESCENT HOME AT JOHANNESBURG (for Officers only): Opened March 1, 1901; closed October 10, 1901. 8 beds. 79 patients received. FIELD-HOSPITAL AND BEARER COMPANY, with 100 beds, left England in March, 1900; opened at the seat of war in South Africa on April 12, 1900; closed April 1, 1901, having remained three months longer than was originally arranged for. Subsidy of L3,000 received from Government for this purpose. IMPERIAL YEOMANRY HOSPITALS. _General Committee:_ Ninety ladies, whose names are given in the first volume of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals Report. _General Working Committee:_ Lady Georgiana Curzon (Chairman). Adeline, Duchess of Bedford. The Duchess of Marlborough. The Countess of Dudley. The Countess of Essex. The Ladies Tweedmouth and Chesham (went to Deelfontein in early days of Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals). Mrs. S. Neumann. Mrs. A.G. Lucas. Mrs. Blencowe Cookson.
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