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Description
Mr. Gerrard describes suffering from diphtheria and witnessing several deaths on his ward as a result of it. He also attributes the death of many of the prisoners to the cumulative effect of several diseases.
Transcription
There was quite a bit of diphtheria and they put one of our buildings special for these diphtheria patients and it was next to where the one I was staying in. And I can remember I was in there and these fellas were just laying on a cement floor dying really and some of them even had to cut their throats so they could breath and I think there was the odd one that did survive it but the big thing was when you got something, you were so weak that you caught other things and they didn’t die of one thing, they died of several as a rule and it was pretty heartbreaking.