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MY DIARY IN SERBIA

April 1, 1915—Nov. 1, 1915

The Author—Monica M. Stanley.

Frontispiece.

MY DIARY IN
SERBIA

April 1, 1915—Nov. 1, 1915

By

MONICA M. STANLEY

Attached to the "Stobart Field Hospital" in Serbia

ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOS

LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL,
HAMILTON, KENT & CO., LIMITED

Copyright.

First issued, Feb., 1916.

To
My very dear Aunt

ELIZABETH STANLEY

this book is
Dedicated

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PREFACE

Brave Serbia has not been forgotten in her hour of need by the womenof England. For the Women's Imperial Service League, with Mrs. St.Clair Stobart as directress, went out to Serbia under the ægis of theSerbian Relief Fund, after arduous work out in Antwerp and after atCherbourg. Mrs. Stobart decided that ours should be a Field Hospitalowing to typhus and other fever raging in the country.

We left on April 1, 1915, on the Admiralty transport Saidieh forSalonica. The staff consisted of Mrs. St. Clair Stobart as directress,Mr. J.H. Greenhalgh as treasurer, a secretary, seven women doctors,eighteen trained nurses, four trained cooks, one dispenser, onesanitary inspector, an English chaplain and fourteen orderlies, ofwhich some were chauffeurs.

The Field Hospital was perfectly equipped; everything we took with us.We had over sixty tents, 300 beds, with every necessary for them;bales of clothes for wounded and the civil population; the kitchenrequisites, with four excellent cooking stoves with ovens; severalportable boilers for hot water; large tanks for cold water; laundryequipments; medical stores; over £300 of food-stuffs; X-ray; allsanitary necessaries; motor ambulances. Our Field Hospital was to beat [8]Kragujevatz; the tents were soon pitched and well arranged.

We had the following tents: one for X-ray, operating theatre; one toreceive the patients; a large mess tent for patients and one forstaff; one for linen—laundry; two kitchens—one for patients and onefor staff; dispensary; food stores; a recreation tent for the staff,and one for the doctors; then there were lavatory and bath tents; therest were wards and for the staff to sleep in. Our Hospital was soonfull. I was the head of the kitchen departments, and I looked a

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