taken off, washed and put on some more urgent case. Food is 
 
scarce, monotonous, ill-prepared, unpalatable, altogether unsat-
 
isffactory. Even water is dirty and scarce. Splints are crudely
 
whittled out by hand and hardly either fit, or perform their
 
function. I was told that 98% of all abdominal and head opera-
 
tions never recover. 40 out of 150 in the hospital near GHQ
 
had T.B. either as their only sickness or in addition to what-
 
ever else they had. Patients in dire need of hospitalization,
 
such as advanced cases of gangrene, apply to the hospital and
 
are turned away, because of the inability to accept any more
 
patients, with the assurance that they are quite all right.
 
     Hospitals are frequently on the move through the hills be-
 
cause repeated experience has shown that if the patients are
 
left when the enemy arrive, they are killed. It was stated
 
that the usual practice was to cut their throats but that some-
 
times they were shot instead. The additional burden on the al-
 
ready overtaxed transportation facilities of the Partisans en-
 
tailed by the moving of sick people is such as to lend more than
 
the usual degree of credibility to the statements that were made
 
about the killing of the sick by the enemy.
 
     Typhoid, typhus, dysentery including  amoebic dysentery, and
 
venereal disease are all seriously on the increase. Partisan
 
doctors estimate Partisan wounded around 15,000. They estimate
 
the total of tuberculosis, including incipient  as well as active
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