Description:Regular reports from the various medical stations suggest that the funds raised by the Stafford House Committee were also being used to construct better facilities. Dr. Symons Eccles’report from Philippopoli in November 1877 states:
‘some difficulty has been experienced in hastening the work connected with this section, and we have been obliged to bring workmen…in order to complete the building of the wash-house, all the workmen from this town having been requisitioned for the construction of a shed at the station for the reception of patients’.
Other accounts refer to the treatment of patients at Stafford House Hospital, indicating that funds were used to construct large scale medical facilities.
Accounts in the letters indicate that the Committee’s work was contributing significantly to saving the lives of Turkish soldiers. Dr. Symons Eccles suggests that the condition of patients was improving, writing ‘the arrangements may be completed for placing them in the most favourable conditions for recovery with special reference to hygiene’.