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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Funds are urgently needed to help the work of providing and distributing a pure water supply in the following ways: "1. By small portable sterilising plants for every company to produce and distribute from twenty to a hundred gallons of pure cold water per hour. By sterilisers easy of adjustment for all field hospitals, convalescent homes, medical depots, and so forth.
Water sterilisers were part of each man's kit in order that in the event of his having to drink unauthorised well water he should be able to kill off some of the more ferocious bacilli likely to be found therein.
She spoke of its equipment; of the difficulty in securing supplies; of the new surgery, which has saved so many limbs from amputation. They were installing new and larger sterilisers, she said. "Things are in as good condition as can be expected now," she said. "The next problem will come when we get back into our own country. What are the people to do?
Shining rows of instruments on clean towels were ready to put away in the cabinets. The sterilisers glowed in warm rectangles of gleaming copper. Over all brooded the peace of order, the quiet of the night. Outside the operating-room door she drew a long breath, and faced the night watchman. She had left something in Twenty-two. Would she go and get it? "It's very late," said Jane Brown.
For the Belgian Army has no money at all for sterilisers, for pocket filters; has not the means to inoculate the army against typhoid; has little of anything. The revenues that would normally support the army are being collected in addition to a war indemnity by Germany. Any hope that conditions would be improved by a general spring movement into uncontaminated territory has been dispelled.
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