The Other Side of Paradise
“They died of diseases, fevers, infections, malnutrition, beriberi, heatstroke, heart failure, tropical ulcers … an endless variety of causes, including losing the will to live. There was no way of isolating infectious cases and no drugs to treat them with. The hospital patients lay on bali bali or on the bare floor, with only rice sacks to cover them. And it rained almost every day: hissing torrents that dripped through the holes in the roofs, turned the compound to mud, the latrine drain into ...an overflowing sewer. The clean rainwater would have been a godsend, but there was nothing to save it in except for a few rusty oil cans.
Stella said grimly, ‘All we need now is an outbreak of cholera to finish us off.’ A Welsh woman called Mrs Williams died in Susan’s hut during one night. She had seemed perfectly all right the evening before but by the morning she was dead, flies settling on her face and crawling into her open mouth, her corpse already beginning to smell. The guards refused to help or provide a coffin and so they carried her out on a makeshift bamboo stretcher under a rice sack.MoreLess
Stella said grimly, ‘All we need now is an outbreak of cholera to finish us off.’ A Welsh woman called Mrs Williams died in Susan’s hut during one night. She had seemed perfectly all right the evening before but by the morning she was dead, flies settling on her face and crawling into her open mouth, her corpse already beginning to smell. The guards refused to help or provide a coffin and so they carried her out on a makeshift bamboo stretcher under a rice sack.MoreLess
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