CHAPTER XI.
SEQUEL OF THE DISPOSITIONS MADE BY THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH FOR THE CARE OF THEIR SICK AND WOUNDED.
CHAP. XI. The French Hospitals We saw how well the Administrators of the French army made provision for their troops when disabled by sickness or wounds, and the subsequent falling off that took place in their hospital management was a change not embraced in the period with which this history deals.
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Allusion to the causes of maladiminstration in the English Hospitals. What baffled our people when yearning to do all they could for their sick and wounded troops was indeed, as we saw, the very simplest of causes—that is, the sheer non-existence of any sufficient State engine built up in good time for the purpose; The nature of the task, in hand: and accordingly, the real task in hand was — not so much to reform, but — rather — all at once to create. Yet, if custom were still to hold sway, the Innovator would have to
