Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/259/1 - 1917 - 1927 - Part 24

Mackellar. 54 staff nurses
Left Sydney May 1917
[*Arrival*]
This lot "not wanted", Not Expd
at Bombay, & ^Davis didn't know what to do
with us. Vict W. Hospl ws AAms
HQ in India.
Camped for night in ward
from wh T prisoners Evacd.

M.J. Ryan. Left Syd Sept 2 1916 (w 25 Sisters) Some had bn
waiting for 18 m. First 50 Victorians under Davis.
[*Arrival*]
Happy times as a rule on / voyages & sorry to leave.
Some to Kandy. Reached Bombay Sept 24th. Ran right into
cholera wh had killed 2 Aust Sisters. 

Derrer (Genl)
[*Genl*] 
"During / latter part of our stay
in India / work ws most interesting,
there being so many Cs of Tropical
diseases including cholera, dysentry,
& Plague". 

[*Nasik*]
[*Snakes*]
Nasik 60 beds ^offrs ws 7m. away.
Electricity now installed 1918; but each sister
kept her hurricane lamp lighter at 
night as snakes v. present about - many Russells
Vipers, Kraits, & Cobras were k. - some
in / sisters rooms. One Sister at Deccan
War Hosp. Poona ws bitten but recoverd. 

[[?]] Darjeeling
 [*Gen.*] 
Hrs. 7.30am - 8pm (3 hrs off every alternate day)
Next day 7.30 - 1.30pm. 

Sassoon
Poona 
Sassoon hospl. Poona - Only one day, to nurse natives
suffering from influenza - deaths 160 in a day.

Leave. Mostly saw Taj & Himalayas. Spent leave
at Mussoorie bill Stn. 
Loved getting to Aust Hospls agn.

Leave
[[Birrell.?]]
After Oct. Sisters were getting 15 days leave
to / hills.

Leave.
Leave
A Bennett
Sinla 2 days & 2 nights train from
Bombay 7000 ft up. Returned thro Agra (Taj Mahal)
& Delhi. (But in March Ap. v hot.)
Darjeeling
The good nursing orderlies were
gradly withdrn to Mespot
Aug 1918 Spanish 'flu began to come in 

[[Tr?lyberry]]
Prices of Box Wallahs genly went up - 
"Aust. Sisters plenty money".