Horse Show. This was run as
a convalescent home, and was the cause of many a muddy sit down, as it
lay on the top of a greasy hill.

Other large buildings were gradually added, sulphured, and cleaned until
we had six hospitals, one of which was run for some time in connection
with the Red Cross unit.

Typhus had not stricken the village badly, but the old barracks were
full of cases which developed several days after each batch of wounded
came.

The Red Cross unit took on the typhus barracks. Mr. Berry, seeing that
surgery was for the moment a secondary thing, and having received a
batch of Austrian prisoners riddled with typhus, built some barracks not
far from the school. Glass was unobtainable, so thin muslin was used for
the windows.

The first precaution against bad air that Mr. Berry took in preparing
his chief surgical ward was to smash all top panes of the windows with a
broom, thus earning the name of the Window Breaker. Whenever the wind
blew through the draughty corridors and glass rattled down from the
sashes, word went round that "Mr. Berry has been at it again."

Our unit and the Red Cross ran a quarantine hospital together. It was
originally the state cafe and lay in the park of the watering-place.
Near by were the sulphur baths. We ripped out the stuffy little wooden
dressing-rooms, to the joy of the bath attendant, who possessed the
facsimile of Tolstoi's face, and with the _debris_ we built a large shed
outside for the reception of the wounded.

In the early days they came in large batches from other hospitals,
pathetic septic cases, their lives ruined for want of proper care. We
put their clothes in bags for future disinfecting, and the men, mildly
perplexed, were bathed, shaved, and sent to the "clearing-house," as it
was called. Those who developed typhus went to the barracks, and the
rest were drafted to the various hospitals in the village.

The clothes were first sulphurized to kill the lice, and then, until Dr.
Boyle's disinfector appeared, boiled. This was important, as typhus is
propagated by infected lice. Even forty-eight hours of sulphur did not
destroy the nits. One day the sulphur-room was opened after twenty-four
hours. Live lice were discovered congregated round the tops of the bags.
Jan put some in a bottle. They immediately fought each other, tooth and
nail, rolling and scrambling in a mass just like a rugby-football scrum,
and continued the fight for twelve hours at least, th