Warner. The wards were very close & hot. A man with a fractured spine was brought in yest., & I was called to help get a water bed under him, after which the sister washed his back with methylated to prevent sores. The morning seems long. I was glad when 1 PM arrived.

Mrs Worthington is out all day long seeing after Belgian refugees, & very amusing stories she has out some. The better class ones are very difficult & expect so much, & complain at the food and will not stay where they are put. I saw a large number of fisher folk this evening who had just arrived from Folkestone, after spending 5 weeks in boats off Calais. There were 170 of them, the waiting room at St David’s was packed, many women and swarms of children these latter were too weary to cry or make any noise, & what with the odour of the room & the terribly sad look of some of the men I had to come away, with burning feelings of rage against Emperor William & his Prussian military party.

I had been down to Exmouth to see Charlotte. The news from the war is that the Germans are determined to make one more effort to get to Calais, and it will take all strength of our army to hold them back. Was there ever such an awful & momentous struggle.