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Description
Mr. Gourlay speaks about the many diseases affecting the soldiers and the importance of water sterilization.
Transcription
We had our own medical staff there and the Nile River flooded and I picked up a little typhoid. I was in Cairo at the time and I was quite ill there for about three weeks. Yeah, you had to be aware. It was, because of the dryness and the desert, it was not bad in the desert. It’s more when you went to the towns and the cities that, you were travelling like different places. The water was not very good water. We converted to sea water for ourselves even in that time. We didn’t eat much other than there. Like if I was going to Cairo, I’d stop in Alexandria, there was one hotel we would use and even then we stayed basically to cooked food.