A military `hospital` was set up in Perpignan in 1808; serious cases from Catalonia were evacuated into it.
From contemporary accounts, it was a death house, with constantly high mortality rates.
Nursing cage was provided by the Grey Sisters nuns and was very good, but the food and the supply of medicines was extremely inadequate. The senior doctor / surgeon was impervious to complaints and suggestions. He was absent for about a week and some Westphalian officer patients complained to him about the food and medical treatment. His response was to advise them to get out of the place as quickly as they could, rent rooms in the town and get medical care from their own regimental depots in the town.
It seemed that all the hospital staff (except the nuns) were creaming off their own slices of the patients` rations and medicines.
This amazing state of affairs apparently went on for years. So much for French army medical care.
Anybody know the name of the commandant of this hell hole or have any data as to the numbers of patients who died there?