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Saturday [19/10/'18]
Off 3-8, drove Cairo more dead than alive, very weak & health cond. not good – anaemic looking.
Sanitary tl's Pt. 15 a doz.!!
Clothes pegs for papers for Capt. Jobson.

Sunday, 20th
Letter from Coles asking about H.F., wrote Mother. Off 2-5, rested & did washing.

Monday
Capt. Loddiges doing our ward, very smart man. All pts. put on Diaphoretic 4 hrly. May get up when temp. 98.4 for 48 hrs. then iron & arsenic tonic. Convoys still roll in & no abatement in the death toll here or up the line.

Tuesday 22nd
Busy day as usual. I ask for S. Dowie's day, crushed at once. Obtain tonic, cough clings hard after "flu" – very white-faced for me. 4 out of its 20 Indian sisters still at 27th, they don't like it, spoiled as our 16 are by India.

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