62 IV. JULY, 1913— JANUARY, 1914 
There is no separation of the sexes in the big shed ; 
they arrange themselves in their usual way. The only 
thing I insist on is that the healthy shall not take 
possession of a bed while a patient has to sleep on the 
ground. I must soon build some more huts for their 
accommodation, as the one dormitory is not enough. 
I must also have some rooms in which to isolate 
infectious cases, especially the dysentery ones. The 
patients with sleeping sickness, again, I cannot keep 
for any length of time in hospital, as they endanger the 
health of the whole station, and later on I shall build 
a hut for them in a quiet spot on the other side of the 
river. There is plenty of work to do beside the mere 
medical treatment. 
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With the hospital building finished, the doctor’s 
wife can develop her activity to the full. In the fowl- 
house there was only room for Joseph and myself. 
She shares with me the work of teaching Joseph how 
to clean and handle the instruments and to prepare 
for operations. She also superintends the washing, and it 
takes a great deal of trouble to ensure that the dirty and 
infected bandages are properly cleaned and sufficiently 
boiled. She appears punctually at ten o’clock, and 
stays till twelve, insisting on everything being kept in 
good order. 
To understand what it means when my wife leaves 
her household work to give most of the morning to the 
medical work as well as not a few afternoons to the 
operations, for which she administers the anaesthetics, 
one must know how complicated the simplest style 
of housekeeping is in Africa. This is the result of two 
