Too many wounded

"We are right in the thick of things now, wounded and sick coming in faster than we can take them… As every few patients go out a fresh batch is put in and another surgical ward downstairs has had to be used for gastro-enteritis and dysentery cases. The men say it is just like heaven to be here and one feels that one cannot do enough for them… Some are absolute wrecks… we have 650 patients in the hospitals (this was raised to 1000) and we are discharging them by fifties and hundreds. The men who left here just a week ago are coming back now wounded. They went straight into action when they arrived. It is said that they have done wonderful things at the Peninsula, however, and our men get the very greatest praise."