Lazarets

On the last page, the editors summarize the rules governing the YMCA lending library with the note that the Association planned to send more books for the prisoners, men in the lazarets, and on work commandos. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At the Paderborn lazarets, “Some of the men said to me that it would be necessary to drive them away (that they would make no attempt to escape) because they were so well cared for and so comfortable.” (p. 40, l.c.) ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Writing from Hamburg, the American Consul-General, Mr. Morgan, says: “It is not necessary for me to enter into the details of the different lazarets which I visited, beyond stating that they are all in the most up-to-date condition, and everything is being done for the wounded that could be done anywhere.” ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The cruelties practiced in this guerrilla warfare, even by women and priests, toward wounded soldiers, and doctors and hospital nurses -- physicians were killed and lazarets fired on -- were such that eventually my Generals were compelled to adopt the strongest measures to punish the guilty and frighten the bloodthirsty population from continuing their shameful deeds. ❋ Various (N/A)

Eyewitnesses have told me about Jewish soldiers in the different lazarets who have turned mad, not through the unavoidable horrors of the war, but because of the pogroms they have witnessed in the towns they have passed. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the wretchedly organized lazarets at Scutari the sick and wounded died by scores for lack of proper medical attendance. ❋ Edwin Emerson (1914)

Perhaps the best illustration of the utter absurdity of this view of duty in attending on "infectious" diseases is afforded by what was very recently the practice, if it is not so even now, in some of the European lazarets – in which the plague-patient used to be condemned to the horrors of filth, overcrowding, and want of ventilation, while the medical attendant was ordered to examine the patient's tongue through an opera-glass and to toss him a lancet to open his abscesses with? ❋ Unknown (1860)