[49]

Wacht-een-bietze.

[50]

The seat of government has since been transferred to Livingstone, on the Zambesi.

[51]

A kind of pheasant.

APPENDIX I

MAFEKING RELIEF FUND


Distribution Committee.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL C.B. VYVYAN, Commandant of Mafeking.

MR. C.G. BELL, Resident Magistrate.

MR. A.H. FREND, Mayor.

Total amount made available for distribution    £29,267


Of which the Committee allotted to:              £

Widows and orphans                              6,536

Refugees                                        4,630

Town relief                                    3,741

Seaside Fund                                    2,900

Churches, convent, schools, etc.                2,900

Wounded men                                    2,245

Small tradesmen                                1,765

Hospital staff, nuns, etc.                      1,115

Colonel Plumer's Rhodesian Column, etc.        1,000

———-

£26,832

June 6, 1909.

The "Rainy Day Fund," formed from the balance of the Relief Fund, still exists, and though the amount now in it is small, it is sufficient to enable the Trustees (Mayor of Mafeking and Civil Commissioner) to make occasional grants in cases of distress among those who suffered during the siege, or who have fallen on evil days since.

MAFEKING FUND, 1900.

£

Collected by Lady Georgiana Curzon                        24,000

Collected by Colonel Baden-Powell's school comrades

at Charterhouse (in addition to gifts in kind)            1,150

Collected by Lady Snagge (£643) and Birmingham

Argus (£350) for sending nurses, women, and children,

to seaside                                                  993

The following sent over £100 each:

Conservative Club, Liverpool.

Melbourne Club.

Luton.

Mr. Butler, of Wellington, New Zealand.

Tunbridge Wells Imperial Association.

Right Hon. C.J. Rhodes.

Swansea, Wales.

Salisbury, Mashonaland.

Mr. J. Garlick, of Cape Town.

Mayor of Brighton.

Raleigh Club, London.

Ilfracombe.

Mr. William Nicol.

Sent by Lord Mayor of London from Mansion House

Fund                                                        200

Mr. Leonard Rayne, theatrical impresario, of South Africa, inaugurated the "Rayney Day Fund," with a view to ultimate calls for relief by members of the garrison in years to come.

APPENDIX II

IMPERIAL YEOMANRY HOSPITALS, 1900-1902.


December 29, appeal signed by Lady Georgiana Curzon and Lady Chesham sent from Blenheim Palace.

President: THE QUEEN.

Vice-Presidents: THE PRINCESS OF WALES and DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT.

Chairman of Committee: COUNTESS HOWE.

Vice-Chairmen of Committee: COUNTESS OF WARWICK and VISCOUNTESS VALENTIA.

Hon. Secretary: EARL HOWE.

Treasurer: LUDWIG NEUMANN, ESQ.

Military Adviser: MAJOR-GENERAL LORD CHEYLESMORE.

Hon. Civilian Director and Treasurer in South Africa: J.G. HAMILTON, ESQ.

£  s. d.

Subscriptions received between issue of first

appeal and issue of interim report in April,

1900, £127,000. During the whole time the

subscriptions (including the first) totalled  145,325  15  7


Sale of base hospital realized                15,000  0  0


Government subsidy for prolonging maintenance

of field-hospital and bearer company,

January 1 to March 31, 1901                    3,000  0  0


Sale of Elandsfontein Hospital                  9,051  9  6


Bankers' interest to December 31, 1901          1,635  12  9

———————-

£174,012  17 10

From first to last, various staffs numbered over 1,400 persons, and 20,000 patients received medical aid in the different Yeomanry Hospitals.

When the staff returned to England, medals were presented to them at Devonshire House by the Queen.


DEELFONTEIN BASE HOSPITAL: Opened March 5, 1900; closed March 31, 1901. Originally with 500 beds, subsequently increased to 1,000 beds. 6,093 in-patients, including 351 officers, were treated there.


MACKENZIE'S FARM, MAITLAND CAMP, BASE HOSPITAL: Opened August 2, 1900; closed March 31, 1901. Originally with 100 beds, subsequently increased to 150. 1,066 patients treated.


EASTWOOD, PRETORIA, BASE HOSPITAL: Opened August 18, 1900; closed September 30, 1901. Originally with 400 beds, subsequently increased to 564 beds. 5,227 in-patients, including 466 officers, and 1,095 out-patients, treated.


ELANDSFONTEIN BASE HOSPITAL: Opened June 29, 1901; closed December 19, 1901. Originally with 50 beds, subsequently increased to 138 beds. 823 in-patients, including 27 officers, and 900 out-patients, treated.


CHESHAM CONVALESCENT HOME AT JOHANNESBURG (for Officers only): Opened March 1, 1901; closed October 10, 1901. 8 beds. 79 patients received.


FIELD-HOSPITAL AND BEARER COMPANY, with 100 beds, left England in March, 1900; opened at the seat of war in South Africa on April 12, 1900; closed April 1, 1901, having remained three months longer than was originally arranged for. Subsidy of £3,000 received from Government for this purpose.

IMPERIAL YEOMANRY HOSPITALS.

General Committee:

Ninety ladies, whose names are given in the first volume

of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals Report.



General Working Committee:

Lady Georgiana Curzon (Chairman).

Adeline, Duchess of Bedford.

The Duchess of Marlborough.

The Countess of Dudley.

The Countess of Essex.

The Ladies Tweedmouth and Chesham (went to Deelfontein

in early days of Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals).

Mrs. S. Neumann.

Mrs. A.G. Lucas.

Mrs. Blencowe Cookson.

Mrs. Julius Wernher (now Lady Wernher).

Madame von Andre.



Finance Committee:

Viscount Curzon, M.P. (now Earl Howe).

Mr. Ludwig Neumann.

Adeline, Duchess of Bedford.

Lady Chesham.

Lady Georgiana Curzon.



Press Committee:

The Countess of Dudley.

The Countess of Essex.

Madame von Andre.

The Duchess of Marlborough.

Lady Georgiana Curzon.



Transport Committee:

Lady Tweedmouth.        }

Mrs. Julius Wernher.    }  Assisted by Major Haggard

Mrs. S. Neumann.        }  and General Eaton.

Mrs. A.G. Lucas.        }

Lady Georgiana Curzon.  }


Gifts and Purchase Committee:

The Countess of Essex.    }

Lady Tweedmouth.          }  Assisted by General

Mrs. A. G. Lucas.        }  Eaton, Colonel Sloggett

Mrs. S. Neumann.          }  and Mr. Fripp, and

Lady Georgiana Curzon.    }  Mr. Oliver Williams.



Medical, Nursing, and General Staffs Committee:

The Duchess of Marlborough.    }

Adeline, Duchess of Bedford.    }  Assisted by General

The Countess of Warwick.        }  Eaton, Colonel Sloggett

Lady Chesham.                  }  and Mr. A. Downing

Madame von Andre.              }  Fripp.

Lady Georgiana Curzon.          }

The chief workers in Ireland were: The Countess of Longford, Lady Annette La Touche, and Mrs. Pirrie; but they were only on the General Committee, not on any of the subcommittees.


THE END