Lady  Lowther's  refugees


But  in  ZaI  Mahmoud  Pasha  there  were  at  one  time  cases
of  consumption,  pneumonia,  typhoid  fever,  scarlet  fever,
measles,  mumps,  and  smallpox.  Five  cases  of  the  last
were  found  under  one  quilt.  Still,  the  refugees  would  not
be  vaccinated  if  they  could  help  it.  The  only  way  to
bring  them  to  it  was  to  cut  off  their  bread.  And  not
many  of  them  were  wifling  to  go  away  or  to  let  members
of  their  famihes  be  taken  away  to  hospitals.     How  did


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they  know  whether  they  would  ever  see  each  other  again,
they  asked?  A  poor  mother  we  knew,  whose  husband
had  been  taken  as  a  soldier  and  had  not  been  heard  of
since,  and  whose  home  had  burned  to  the  ground  before
her  eyes,  lost  her  four  children,  one  after  the  other.  A
neighbour  afterward  remarked  of  her  in  wonder  that  she
seemed  to  have  no  mind  in  her  head.
