The Transvaal burgher camps, South Africa / by S.J. Thomson.

  • Samuel James Thomson
Date:
1904
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Credit: The Transvaal burgher camps, South Africa / by S.J. Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    appreciate the enormous task set before those who first undertook the organization • and control of these camps. In times of peace, preparation would have preceded the collection of people in any locality; in times of war it was impossible to foresee when and where such requirements might arise. Military operations could not await such preparations, and the best possible had to be done to meet emergencies as they arose. It is but right to add that when I assumed, charge of the camps, matters had begun to mend, and many important improvements had been initiated. The following table shows the mortality per mille in the whole of the Transvaal Camps during the period of from ist January to 31st December 1902 :— Death-rate in Transvaal Burgher Camps. Month. Average population. Death-rate per mille per annum. January 1902 55.973 136 9 February 52>5 70-5 March 48,149 44'4 * April 45,611 28 4 May 44,816 2b'0 June 44,356 19-9 July 39567 23-0 August 33,95' 148 September ... 24,870 21 ‘6 October 17-246 257 November 12,148 '57 December 6,793 22-9
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