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Monday 30th April
Beautiful day. Was inoculated for paru-typhoid it being over 12 months since the last dose in Egypt, it being a great success. Several discussions with the Colonel about clarifying soapy water from the baths before it entered the river culminated today by me hitting on alum & chloride of lime as the medium. It was amusing to hear us discussing it. I find that I have forgotten the chemistry of the subject & he is no better, we could each speak of oleates, stearates, & fulmitates, but there we stopped & looked at each other. However I scored as my idea is superior to his on his own admission. When 'tis working properly he will show it to all his cronies & A. D. M. S's etc when round on inspection was the victim of a practical joke. In the 2 M store various members of the Amb. are invited inside a back room to see a reported new cricket set. On entering two husky offsiders promptly set upon the unlucky