Sullivan letter diary, 27 October 1915-9 October 1917 / Eugene Sullivan - Page 53
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[Page 53]
They are by far the most interesting but also the hardest wards to look after.
The new doctors are both young men and seem very fresh and bent on making reforms many of which are badly needed. They both went through the Dispensary this afternoon and ordered a great number of new medicines and surgical apparatus. Soon we will need to be qualified chemists to remember all the different medicines and their exact properties. I will take a photograph of it when it has been restocked.
We recently cut a doorway from the dispensary to the kitchen and it is proposed to use the latter as a surgery for minor operations.
We get all kinds and conditions of patients into the hospital and we extract a good deal of fun out of some of them. English (commonly known