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OBSERVATIONS OF AN
ORDERLY

SOME GLIMPSES OF LIFE AND WORK
IN AN ENGLISH WAR HOSPITAL

BY

L.-Cpl. WARD MUIR, R.A.M.C. (T.)

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON,
KENT & CO., LTD., 4 STATIONERS'
HALL COURT : : : LONDON, E.C.4

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Copyright
First published July 1917

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TO

Lt.-Col. H. E. BRUCE PORTER, C.M.G.

Officer in Command of the

3rd London

General Hospital

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Some passages from Observations of an Orderly have appeared,generally in a shorter form, in The Spectator, The New Statesman,The Hospital, The Evening Standard, The National News, The DundeeAdvertiser, The Daily News, and The Daily Mail. The author desiresto make the usual acknowledgments to their editors.

The coloured design on the paper wrapper is by Sergeant Noël Irving,R.A.M.C. (T.), a member of the unit at the 3rd London General Hospital.

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CONTENTS

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I
My First Day	19
II
Life in the Orderlies' Huts	33
III
Washing-up	51
IV
A "Hut" Hospital	65
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From the "D Block" Wards	79
VI
When the Wounded Arrive	93
VII
"T.... A...."	107
VIII
Laundry Problems	121
IX
On Buttons	137
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