18 APRIL 1896, Page 3

Will the philanthropists permit us to make a very humble

suggestion. They should send half a dozen picked surgeons to Bulawayo with antiseptic appliances. It is a great aggra- vation of the horrors of a war such as is raging there, in which the men who perish are not mere " food for cannon," but good officers or useful settlers, that there is a deficiency of con- servative surgery. Everybody whose bones are broken loses a limb, and almost everybody who loses a limb dies. If Bulawayo is really besieged, half the wounded will die of hospital gangrene, and, apart from compassion, it is a pity to waste good men like that.