In the main, departmental officials were concerned with the sanitary condition of the camps and a most rigid inspection was made daily of the lavatories, while other officials paid due attention to the removal of accumulated garbage. In' Dr. Palud's opinion, residents of the Concession had no cause for anxiety because of the concentration "of these unfortunate people.
A visit was subsequently paid to the camp situated on the grounds of the Aurora University. Here 3,000 persons were lodged in seven or eight large bamboo matsheds, each approximately 150 ft. long and 40 ft. wide. Nurses and sisters worked in shifts, as many as five professional attendants appearing in the morning and others in the afternoon. Doctors and internes attended daily, as did twenty boy. scouts and twenty girl aides, while a fireman patrolled the huge compound as a fire prevention officer.
The boys scouts also acted as di:
Minarians for the children, both those with or without parent Within fifteen feet of each other, interesting incidents occurred simultaneously—while a father held his arning infant, a doctor swabbed its throat and just opposite in a roped-off area a scout of perhaps seventeen years belaboured the open palm of a youngster who apparently could be placed in the refractions class,
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