Hospitals of the beginning were
infinitely superior to the
normal Prussian
Hosptials all through this War.]
There is a strong bureaucratic
element in the French too - of course
 - yes, even or principally (do not
think me censorious) among
Soeurs de Charite.
But, from many considerations
too long to trouble you with,
it does not work against the
welfare of Patients & sufferers
to anything like the same degree
that it does under Prussian
rule. (And French War Hospitals are
always better than German.)
My object however here is
simply to bear out what
this masterly investigation
evidently points at:
that, if an English Red Cross Society
is to be subordinated in it's
action to any foreign Gods'
bureaucratic ways, it is lost -