CONFIDENTIAL

RESERVE - LAZARET COSEL

Date of visit: October 18th, 1943.

30/9/43   ( 69 British patients      73 French patients          2 Belgian patients

               (232 Russian  "              6 Serbian     "

        The Delegate of the P.P. was received by the British medical officers who informed him that they had no complaints and that everything was well in hand, it being left entirely to the British to run the hospital as they like.

        A short inspection of the wards and the operating theatre as well as the grounds gave proof of the excellent conditions in this hospital and, accordingly, the splendid work being done.

        11 British sanitators have left for Lamsdorf recently to be repatriated.

        Drugs and medical instruments required by this hospital are contained in the list handed to the Delegate of the P.P. at Lamsdorf.

        The only 2 requests made concerned a First Rip Shear for Adults after Prof. Sauerbruch. When putting this request to the German Stabsarzt, he pointed out that should the British doctors every require such an instrument, he would try and supply one, although operations necessitating the use of such a shear were indeed very seldom. The Delegate of the P.P. will transmit the request of the British doctors to the Red Cross as well as the wish for a new lamp for the operating theatre.

Gabriel Naville.