The treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire: Documents presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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The treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire: Documents presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon
Armenian question; Armenians; World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities; World War, 1914-1918 -- Refugees
I.
HOSPITALS.
1. _At points at which the refugees originally settled._
(_a_) _At Etchmiadzin._—A hospital consisting of several buildings
belonging to the Monastery and to its Academy, which have been
temporarily adapted to accommodate 570 beds for patients of both
sexes and for children.
A cholera ward, No. 5, in which, owing to the disappearance of the
disease, no cases are at present under treatment. The vacant beds of
this ward (70) are now being used for cases of spotted fever.
A flying medical column (consisting of a medical officer, his
assistant and several competent attendants) has been provisionally
formed to attend to those sick refugees who are within the limits of
Monastery territory.
Three miles distant from the Monastery, on the road to the railway
station of Etchmiadzin, a medical quarantine station has been
established. At this point healthy refugees are subjected to a
quarantine of four to five days, before they are allowed to proceed
to the station for the purpose of entraining en route to the
Government of Elizavetpol. On their journey, the refugees are
accompanied by a medical officer and two professional assistants.
(_b_) _At Igdir._—A hospital, in temporarily occupied buildings,
accommodating 100 beds; and, three and a half miles from this point,
at a village named Plour, a hospital for 50 beds.
(_c_) _At Erivan._—A hospital, in private houses provisionally
rented, which provides 200 beds. A quarantine station of a temporary
type has also been opened in connection with this hospital. Two
assistant medical officers are placed in charge of the latter
establishment, and they accompany refugees by rail to their places
of settlement in the Government of Elizavetpol.
(_d_) _At Alexandropol._—A hospital, in premises rented temporarily,
accommodating 200 beds to which an isolation section has been added.
Within the limits of the district of Elizavetpol several stations
have been established with assistant medical officers in charge.
2. _Along the refugees’ line of advance._
(_a_) _Nijni-Akhti._—A hospital for 50 beds.
Assistant medical officers’ stations at Elenovka and Tchibouhli.
(_b_) _Delijan._—A hospital for 50 beds.
3. _In places where refugees have more or less settled._
(_a_) _Novo-Bayazid_ (_Erivan_).—A hospital for 50 beds.
(_b_) _Annenfeld._—A hospital for 80 beds.
(_c_) _Kedabek._—A hospital for 50 beds.
The total number of beds provided—including the 70 belonging to the
cholera ward at Etchmiadzin—is 1,450.
NOTE: Funds furnished by the Urban Union are at present being
employed for adapting a building—ceded to the Military by the
Katholikos—to the needs of the refugees.
II.
KITCHEN STATIONS.
1. _On the railway lines used by refugees._
At the quarantine station near Etchmiadzin and at the stations of
Aghtalia and Annenfeld.
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