408 Colonel Andrew Balfour [Jan. 24, 



the better, a resolution which I do not doubt you will heartily 

 approve. 



'' Thanks to Mr. Wellcome, who placed the resources of his Bureau 

 wholly at the disposal of the War Office, I was able to take a large 

 number of instructive photographs which will form the subject of our 

 demonstration. I need hardly say that, in the time at my disposal, 

 I can only touch the fringe of my subject ; but I will lay some 

 stress on the sanitary and scientific aspects of the various campaigns, 

 for these are the departments of work which least catch the public eye, 

 and, I fear, possess the least interest, not only to the man in the 

 street, but even to some of those on whom responsibility rests, or has 

 rested." 



He commenced his lantern demonstration with pictures taken in 

 Macedonia, showing the type of tented stationary hospital ; the hilly 

 roads which it had been necessary to make, and which in some cases 

 had been built by the staffs of field ambulances ; improvised quarters 

 constructed of biscuit boxes ; methods of transporting sick and 

 wounded ; various devices for collecting and purifying water, for 

 ablution ; oamp cooking ; transport of food ; and more especially the 

 measures taken for dealing with malaria, both by quinine administra- 

 tion and by attacking breeding-places of the anfqjiieles mosquito. 



He passed next to the island of Lemnos, where various pictures 

 taken at Mudros were shown indicating methods of disinfection in 

 the field, ornamentation of hospitals and other matters of sanitary 

 interest. Proceeding to the Gallipoli Peninsula a series of slides was 

 exhibited showing the conditions under which the men had to live in 

 the trenches at Anzac, and the terrible strain thrown upon them in 

 connection with the transport of water from the Ijeach to the summits 

 of the hills w^here the trenches were situated. Somewhat similar 

 views, taken at Cape Heiles, were also shown, and then the scene was 

 changed to Egypt, where a hospital ship was seen in Alexandria 

 harbour. Thereafter the various sanitary features of the campaign, 

 both in Egypt and Palestine, were fully illustrated, of special interest 

 being the views indicating anti-mosquito operations in the Jordan 

 Valley and the arrangements made for a])lution on the western 

 Egyptian front. The transport of sick and wounded men by camel 

 was also demonstrated, as were the precautions taken to prevent the 

 spread of small-pox by the men of the Egyptian Labour and Camel 

 Corps. Attention was drawn to the elaborate arrangements for 

 scientific work both in Egypt and Palestine, and pictures were shown 

 of well-equipped bacteriological and protozoological mobile labora- 

 tories. 



The lecturer then transported his audience to German East 

 Africa. The photographs taken in this area showed hoAv different 

 the medical and sanitary conditions are in a country of bush and 

 dense forest from those obtaining in a bare and hilly land such as 



