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, Mick, Peet, Steve and Milko; they are really splendid, and so willing. They are all so sorry I am ill, and they all come round to see me and wanted to know if I was "too much sick." Mike works harder than ever, and says "Missis ill, Mike work hard, Mike good boy." Friday, _June 18, 1915._ I have been in bed all day but am feeling better. It is very hot again. Four nurses from the Farmer's unit at Belgrade arrived to help us; two from the Scotch Hospital came on Wednesday, and four have come from another unit, so we shall no longer be single-handed. All the staff who have typhoid are getting on nicely. Saturday, _June 19, 1915._ I am allowed up for a little this afternoon, so to-morrow I hope to be about again. Two great guns have been brought up near this camp. Two of the patients are about again. Dr. Atkinson will not let me go back to work again until my temperature has been normal for forty-eight hours. The work is very hard and there is no end to it. I hear we are to be sent for a few days' rest to another unit. We constantly have members of other units coming over for two or three days' rest here; it is so nice being friendly with all the other different units out here. Dr. Dearmer has gone to Salonika to fetch the members of the new unit; they arrive to-morrow. We have heard that the _Saidieh_ has been torpedoed, and seven of the crew are lost. The Germans have been after this boat for a long time. We should have been torpedoed coming out if it had not been for the rough weather and the sea-fog on Easter Sunday. The _Saidieh_ had just returned to England under sealed orders by the Government. I am thankful that our nice captain was saved--John Reginald Ryall. We are anxious to hear about the chief officer and chief engineer. I have a Serbian to take my place while I am away from work in the patients' kitchen; he is a splendid cook. He amuses us with his moustache; he keeps it pressed in a frame in the early morning. I think if it got burnt with his cooking it would be the death of him. We started working this camp two months ago this Friday. We hear that Dr. May left England on the 18th with a fresh unit. The baby belonging to the poor woman who was wounded by shrapnel died this morning; it is a blessing as the poor little thing had been so neglected. But the dear nurse that was looking after the baby wa
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