SUNSTROKE AND ITS TREATMENT. THE HOSPITAL 6i 
During December the waiting-room was got ready 
and a shed for housing the patients. Both buildings 
are constructed like large native huts out of unhewn 
logs and raffia leaves, and I myself, under Mr. Chris- 
tol’s direction, took part in the work. The patients’ 
dormitory measures 42 feet by 19 feet 6 inches. Joseph 
has a large hut to himself. These buildings lie along 
both sides of a path about 30 yards long which leads 
from the iron building to a bay in the river, in which the 
canoes of the patients are moored. The bay is over- 
shadowed by a magnificent mango tree. 
When the roof of the dormitory was ready, I marked 
on the floor of beaten earth with a pointed stick sixteen 
large rectangles, each indicating a bed, with passages 
left between them. Then the patients and their 
attendants, who hitherto had been lodged, so far as 
possible, in a boathouse, were called in. Each patient 
was put into a rectangle, which was to be his sleeping 
place, and their attendants were given axes with which 
to build the bedsteads ; a piece of bast on a peg showed 
the height they were to have. A quarter of an hour 
later canoes were going up and down stream to fetch 
the wood needed, and the beds were ready before 
nightfall. They consist of four short posts ending in 
forks, on which tie two strong side-poles, with shorter 
pieces lying across, the whole bound firmly together 
with creeper stalks. Dried grass serves as a mattress. 
The beds are about 20 inches from the ground, so 
that boxes, cooking utensils, and bananas can be stored 
below, and they are broad enough for two or three 
persons to occupy them at once ; if they do not provide 
room enough, the attendants sleep on the floor. Thej? 
bring their own mosquito nets with them. 
