At the Rock Gold Mine, Connie is not the only pregnant woman waiting to give birth, there are 12 other pregnant women, all due within the next three months.

These 12 pregnant women are all family members of Chinese policemen, they are all Boers who were thrown into concentration camps by the British, and they were all married to single Chinese policemen during their time in Oaktown, but they could not be recognized by the Cape Town government, so they came to Johannesburg and completed the marriage registration in the Johannesburg City Government, becoming de facto legal husband and wife.

The reason why they all stayed at the Rock Mine was because there was a small clinic in the Rock Mine, and although the conditions of the clinic were not very good, they could only receive medical care in the Cape and Transvaal.

Hospitals in the Cape and the Transvaal do not admit Boers.

It may sound cruel, but it is a fact, although the British are negotiating with the Boers, they are desperate for all the Boers to die, and it is impossible to provide medical care for the Boers.

Roque got the news that more than 1,000 Boers had died in the Transvaal concentration camps alone last month.

During the Second Boer War, a total of 27,927 Boers died in concentration camps, including 1,676 old people, 4,177 women, and 22,074 children.

This is just official data, in fact, the death toll should be more than this.

When Roque set up a clinic in the gold mine, he did not consider delivering babies for pregnant women at all, so the clinic in the Roque Gold Mine did not have the ability to deliver babies for pregnant women at all, and in order to better take care of these pregnant women, Roque had to expand the scale of the clinic.

New Clinics –

In fact, it is no longer a clinic, it is much larger than the clinic, and it has reached the hospital level.

It is also the largest hospital in Johannesburg.

The hospital is located in the town of Ziwei, not far from the Rock Gold Mine, at the foot of a hill next to the town, there are meadows, woods near the hospital, and a small lake formed because of the river bay.

The wards and clinics have only just been built, and the greening work has not yet begun, but the progress is not slow, and the Zulu police officers from the Johannesburg Police Department are in charge of supervising the work.

In order to take care of these second-generation Chinese Americans, Roque also spared no expense, and the new 40-bed hospital could not only provide medical care for pregnant women, but also miners who needed to be hospitalized due to illness.

What Roque didn't expect was that the first patient admitted to this hospital, also named "Ziwei", was not a pregnant woman or a miner, but a soldier of the expeditionary force stationed in Johannesburg.

"Yesterday morning Captain John brought a patient, the unlucky guy fell off the horse, his arm was broken, we performed surgery on him, his leg was connected, anesthetics, steel plates and some bandages were used during the operation, the result of the operation was good, the patient has been admitted to the ward, Captain John wants to settle the treatment fee with us, how should this treatment cost be calculated?" The doctor who reported to Roque was Colin Bellamy, a Boer who had been recommended by Dr. Jonathan Jackson of Cape Town.

The Anglo-Boer War brought great suffering to the Boers, and in the Cape Colony, both the Boers who supported Britain and the Boers who supported the Boer state were ostracized by the whole society.

Colin Bellamy, like Jonathan Jackson, practiced medicine in Cape Town before the outbreak of the war, but Colin Bellamy's clinic was forcibly closed by the Cape Town City Council due to a medical accident, leaving Colin Bellamy unemployed.

Roque wants to upgrade the clinic to a hospital, and it is indispensable to hire experienced doctors, so Jonathan Jackson recommended Colin Bellamy like Roque.

Roque asked Anton to do some investigation of Colin Bellamy, and after confirming that the medical malpractice was not Colin Bellamy's responsibility, he took Colin Bellamy directly from Cape Town to Johannesburg.

At Rock Hospital, there are now six senior doctors, most of whom are similar to Colin Bellamy.

"How much does a hospital in Cape Town typically charge for this situation?" Roque didn't know what the fees were for the year.

"60 to 70 pounds." Colin Bellamy tells the truth.

This price is not cheap, the average person in this year, the annual income is sixty or seventy pounds, when Roque used to be a patrol officer, the annual salary after naturalization in Cape Town was only 60 pounds, which still includes overseas allowances, if it is in the United Kingdom, the annual salary of an ordinary police officer is forty or fifty pounds.

Of course, this price is not high, after all, these days, medical equipment is not cheap, the value of medical skills is higher, sixty or seventy pounds sounds like a lot, it depends on what it is compared with, compared with a leg, how much is it expensive?

For the rich, how much money is not expensive, for the poor -

The lives of the poor are not worth so much.

What a time when life is like a mustard!

"Then charge according to this standard." Roque won't ask for more, but it won't be cheap for the Expeditionary Force Command, and this money must be from the Expeditionary Force Command.

"Okay, will it be according to this standard in the future?" Colin Bellamy has a bit of a headache, Rock Hospital doesn't even have a financial staff now, and he, the director, is also a duck on the shelf.

"It's all by that standard." Roque made a decision, since Rock Hospital has opened, it is also urgent to equip the hospital with professional financial personnel, in this regard, Roque has reserves in his hands, and there are as many as four accountants in Rock Gold Mine, except for Scarlett, all of whom were sent by Ada during this time.

It must be emphasized that Roque is not a philanthropist, so he will not open up medical resources to the society for free.

Even later, when the families of miners and Chinese policemen fell ill and went to the hospital for treatment, Locke Hospital would charge them according to the normal standard.

However, the cost of treatment for the miners will be reimbursed by the Rock Gold Mine, and the police department will also consider the cost of treatment for the families of Chinese police officers.

This part of Roque will certainly not tell Colin Bellamy.

"How's the training for nurses going?" Roque cares about the nurses in the hospital.

If you don't care, all the nurses in Locke Hospital are Chinese, that is, the women sent by Liang Dingxin before, these women are all for single Chinese policemen, but Roque will not engage in Lalang matching, if the Chinese policemen fancy any nurse, then chase after it, as long as they don't have to be strong, Roque is happy to see it.

Not to mention, this effect is very good, before the Locke Hospital was built, the proportion of Chinese police officers in Johannesburg who were sick began to rise sharply, so much so that Roque had to stipulate that each Chinese police officer could not take more than one day of sick leave per week, which is estimated to become a "strange" regulation of the Johannesburg Police Department in the future, just like the British government's regulations: ordinary people's pets cannot mate with royal animals, unless the animal is also from the royal property.

When Roque saw this "wonderful" regulation, he thought that the time when this regulation was introduced was in the Middle Ages, and later Roque learned that the time when this regulation was introduced was in 2006.

When he saw this regulation, Roque's heart was actually broken, because Roque always couldn't help but imagine that if a mouse from a commoner's house accidentally had something indescribable with the queen's corgi, would the court judge the commoner's mouse.

If judged, what would it be?

It's really filthy –

"It's going well, they're smart, and they're learning very quickly, even though there's still a bit of a language barrier." Colin Bellamy is not only responsible for the operation of the hospital, but also for the training of nurses, which is also no way, the hospital is a more specialized field, and Roque cannot appoint a professional manager as the director of the hospital.

The Chinese are indeed intelligent, and although the nurses were not educated before, and this was even their first time going abroad, they were trained very quickly, and many of them are now qualified nurses if language is not taken into account.

Amazingly, nurses don't need to go to nursing school, they don't need to be qualified, and they don't need to learn professional skills such as intravenous injections, which were only an additional treatment for critical illnesses before 1940, and only doctors are qualified to carry them out, and nurses can only assist in the preparation of related items.

Therefore, the nurse's job is to take care of the patient, which in itself does not require too much skill, but requires a meticulous and responsible attitude, and Nightingale did this, so that in the Crimean War, the British wounded mortality rate was reduced from as high as 42 percent to 2.2 percent.

That's what Chinese nurses can do.

"Hire a few Boer nurses and let them take care of the wounded British soldiers." Roque doesn't want to be sideways, don't expect the moral bottom line of the British soldiers to be high these days, many of them are rotten people and scum, and they really can't get along in society before joining the army, Roque doesn't want Chinese nurses to have anything to do with the wounded soldiers of the British army.

Don't forget, Johannesburg is still under military control, so if something unbearable happens to the wounded British soldiers and Chinese nurses, Roque can't do anything about the wounded British soldiers, and no matter how much Roque does, he can't make up for the damage to the Chinese nurses, and Roque will never let Lynn's tragedy happen again.

Therefore, the best prevention is not to let Chinese nurses come into contact with the wounded British soldiers at all.

"Okay!" The gratitude in Colin Bellamy's eyes flashed, now it was the most difficult time for the Boers, almost all British businesses did not recruit Boer employees, and Roque was also objectively helping the Boers by doing so.

As for whether the Boer nurses will have anything to do with the British soldiers when they take care of the British army patients-

In the era of precariousness, don't think about these things first, and then talk about living first.