-4- pied sections. About 5000 have found their way into the ranks of the Partisans. Both their knowledge and their skill are, by our standards, of an unacceptably low order. There are virtually no trained nurses. What nursing is done is more of a "practical nursing" and "orderly" nature, by willing but dirty and unskilled women wearing either no uniforms or ordi- nary soldier' s uniforms. I inspected the divisional hospital near Partisan GHQ. It contained about l50 patients, housed in dirty and ill-ventilated rooms with about 15 patients per room averaging l0' x l4'. There were no beds, no blankets, no sheets, no pillows, no sanitary fa- cilities, no utensils. The patients lie on the floor, head to the wall and feet toward the center of the room, in dirty old clothes which are never changed, and with maybe six or eight inches of floor space between each patient. There is some effort made to segregate operative from non-operative cases and particu- larly infectious cases, but this is by no means completely prac- ticed either in this or any other hospital that I heard of. There are practically no drugs. Anesthetics are hardly ever available or used for any purpose. Bandages are in such demand that the same bandage is taken off a patient, washed in cold water and put on another patient as many as ten or twelve times before being thrown away. It is not uncommon for a bandage to be put on an amputated limb only until the bleeding stops, after which it is |