Mr. Treves, the great surgeon who has just returned from South Africa, has made sensation by a speech which he delivered at a banquet given to Sir William MxcCormac and himself' by their fellow-members of the Reform Club on Saturday. Mr. reves said that the sick and wounded in South Africa suffered from two phgues, the plague of flies and the plague of women, He did not refer of course to the trained nurses, who are genuine ministering angels, but to the Amateur nurses, the ladies of fashion who, Mr. Treves puts it, have South Africa after exhausting other means of excitement. The picture of a number of elaborately dressed ladies," he said, masquerading in summer costumes and arranging plenies is really a blo: on the campaign." Private letters received here from nurses more than confirm the truth of this picture. Some of these tine ladies, they say, obtain through influence official positions at the hospitals and hospital camps, and make it very uncomfortable for the nurses, whom they treat as a kind of servants.
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