nd weather, the former better
than the service marquee. Figs. 11 and 12 show the appearance of camps
composed of the two varieties. I must admit a warm preference for the
appearance of the service pattern, but I think it is indubitable that
the other is the more useful.

Given the possibility of division of a General hospital in this manner,
single sections could readily be sent up the lines of communication to
serve as Stationary hospitals at various points behind the advance of
the troops, and on the cessation of active need, the sections could be
reunited at any point to form an advanced Base hospital. The sections
could be kept in touch throughout by visits from the officer of the
lines of communication. This would appear a ready means of providing
well-organised Stationary hospitals at short notice, and would save the
disadvantage of a definitely separate series.

[Illustration: FIG. 12.--Type of Tortoise Tent Hospital. Portland
Hospital, Bloemfontein. (Photo by Mr. C. S. Wallace)]

Such hospitals might have been used on many occasions when the transport
of an entire General hospital was an impossibility. The service,
moreover, has some experience in this direction, since at one time No. 3
General Hospital was divided into two definite sections.

Bearing in mind the extreme readiness and promptitude with which the
officers during the present campaign extended the accommodation of
either Field or General hospitals, one of such sections as are proposed
might readily be made far more capacious than its regulation number
would suggest.

My duties being entirely in connection with the service hospitals, I did
not become intimately acquainted with any of the volunteer hospitals
which did such excellent service, except the Portland, to the staff of
which I was indebted for much hospitality and kindness. This hospital
was practically of about the capacity proposed for the above-mentioned
sections, and the report of its work will no doubt furnish many points
of detail as to equipment, &c., which may be useful.

The general results of the surgical work done during the campaign were
excellent, and taken as a whole the occurrence of any severe form of
septic disease was unusual.

Pure septicaemia, especially in connection with abdominal injuries,
severe head injuries and secondary to acute traumatic osteo-myelitis,
was the form most commonly seen. Pyaemia with secondary deposits was
uncommon, and often of a somewhat su