Item 02: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 5 December 1914-26 February 1915 - Page 116
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I had them all in hand & pushed off to the Fantome & landed my sick five – I soon made them comfortable inboard & gave them all chocolate & milk – We've 14 in all, in the garrison hospital – I go up daily for I must keep in touch with them. The destroyers wont be here for 10 days & I want them to have their men fit & well – I saw Dr Martell this morning & asked why the hospital was so badly organized – I said I know a man who'd get you 100 stretchers made inside 2 weeks – He said it was due to a congestion in the Administrative department & they couldn't help it – I wish I were PM O – I'd alter all the organization inside a week & have & have my sick look & be respectable in a bed & not lumped on the floor anyhow –
Another lovely bit of maladministration – All the garrison in Rabaul is on half rations & no fresh meat in the place until the Eastern arrives & she has not left Sydney – At a time when