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Caring for the wounded during the South African War
Sister Teape of Christchurch worked in the Bloemfontein General Hospital in April 1900 and described it as 'a hotbed of fever, the dreaded enteric raged everywhere... and no sanitary arrangements whatever'. Many other field hospitals had similar conditions: a shortage of water, cramped accommodation and overworked staff
Canterbury Museum
Reference: Album 50
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