expected to gain the
  upper hand of all this sickness and save even a remnant of the
  refugees, we must first feed the sick, and then when they were
  well--to give the former every possible chance to get well, and to
  prevent the well from becoming ill. Second, we must try in every way
  in our power to get the refugees to return to their homes, or at all
  events to camp out in the fields. The first day we filled the
  hospital opened by Consul Barnum with cases off the street, and from
  that time on we increased hospital facilities as fast as possible.
  We engaged two men and one woman to care for the hospital; four
  interpreters and one assistant for the pharmacist. We then divided
  the town into districts so as to systematically get at every sick
  person. Then we hired (for we could get nothing without a system of
  bargaining as to price) two large copper kettles used to make grape
  molasses, and purchased two hundred pounds of beef and made a
  strong, rich soup. We then strained every nerve to get a soup ticket
  into the possession of every sick person. We did not waste time by
  trying to cull out the impostors; in fact there were very few of
  this class, all the refugees were needy and hungry. The second day
  we added three kettles, and to supply the number we served at ten
  o'clock clear meat broth; at four o'clock thick soup of beef and
  rice. By the end of the third day every sick person was receiving
  food. Then all complaints of vomiting the medicine ceased.

  The problem then to be met was--how to get the people to go outside
  the town. We suggested that if they would, we would place a soup
  kettle out in the open fields to the south, north and east, and in
  addition to the soup we would give them flour. This had a very
  decided effect, for one thousand went the first day. The moving
  continued until every person living on the streets and in cow
  stables had built for himself shelters of twigs and leaves. Now the
  butchers saw a chance of applying the plan of putting up the 