According to Roque's standards, Boers like Jeffrey are probably similar to the puppet army during the Anti-Japanese War, and there are many such Boers in the Cape, and the British formed a colonial force with a total number of about 53,000 in the Cape and used them in the Boer War, and among these 53,000 people there were not only Boers, but also many blacks.

Interestingly, probably the blacks are in the army, or in the mines, Roque did not see many blacks in Cape Town, which does not match Roque's impression of South Africa, South Africa in the 21st century has almost become a black country, and now the Cape does not even see the shadow of blacks.

At dinner, Roque finally knew why Jeffrey had said that a piece of bread would be enough for each of the Boer girls.

"Food in the camps was rationed, three-quarters of a pound of cornmeal per person a day, sometimes rice or potatoes, an ounce of coffee, two ounces of sugar, half an ounce of salt, and a pound of meat a week, but the women and children whose relatives were part of the guerrillas had no meat, and babies and children under the age of six received a quarter quart of milk a day—" Cape used the imperial system, not the metric system, and the "ounces" and "quarts" made Roque dizzy.

A pound 4 is about 450 grams, an ounce is about 30 milliliters, and a quart is about 1.13 liters.

To be honest, it was much better than Roque expected, with coffee, sugar, milk, and meat, what else would you like?

If this standard is put in the Qing country, probably many people are willing to live in refugee camps.

The environment of the camps is the main cause of the high mortality rate compared to the food.

It is impossible for the British to prepare tall and spacious rooms for the refugees, so the camp is full of a kind of low small tents, this kind of tent is about one meter high, adults have to bend over in and out of the tent, and they cannot move freely in the tent, often a tent has to live seven or eight people, the degree of crowding can be imagined, there is not enough drinking water in the camp, in the corner of the camp, there is a stream that leads from the Elsdi River, and the main domestic water of the camp comes from this stream.

When he saw the stream, Roque was furious, and the body of a naked Boer woman hung on the barbed wire above the stream, and it seemed that the body had been hanging there for a long time, and it had been decomposed to a considerable extent, and below the corpse was the stream, that is—

"Half a month ago, the woman tried to escape through the creek, and after the guards shot her dead, they hung the body on the barbed wire fence to warn the Boers with bad intentions—" Jeffrey didn't think there was anything wrong with that.

Not only Jeffrey, I'm afraid the vast majority of people in this era don't think there is anything wrong with this, in 1893, the German scientist Robert Koch clearly pointed out for the first time that bacteria can be transmitted through water, food, clothing, etc., which can lead to the occurrence of diseases.

While Robert Koch's findings have resonated strongly in the medical community, more theoretical support is needed to attract attention at the national level, let alone in the Cape Colony, where no one would associate the high mortality rate in the camps with corpses on barbed wire.

"Immediately get rid of the corpses, find a place to burn them and bury them, from now on, drinking water must be purified, and it is not allowed to drink raw water at will." Roque was also a new official, and his first slash was to drinking water.

"Mr. Inspector, purification—how?" Jeffrey didn't understand Roque's orders.

"Boil the water, and then only the water after it has been boiled, and you are not allowed to drink raw water." Roque then remembered the white man's obsession with ice water.

Roque doesn't know why, white people are so obsessed with ice water, in the bar, even if Roque only needs a glass of water, the bartender will easily put two ice cubes into Roque's cup, not to mention daily life, Roque has almost never seen white people boiling hot water, unless they need hot water to make tea.

This is the cultural difference, just as white people don't understand why Chinese people always drink hot water.

But it's clear that the benefits of hot water are much greater than those of ice water, at least when the water is boiled, it kills most of the bacteria in the water, and this is also a solution when there is no special water purification equipment.

Although it does not solve the problem completely.

"Yes, sir." It seems that Jeffrey still doesn't understand, but Jeffrey doesn't question it, and that's it.

"We also need more and bigger tents, or sturdy houses, where winter is coming and people will die if we live in such tents." Roque is more worried about the weather, it's already March, and winter is coming-

The winter in Cape Town is from May to August every year, and it is estimated that the Chinese in Cape Town will not be able to understand the term "spring March" in the future.

"Sir, do you mean those military tents? It is impossible for us to get military tents, and military tents have to be given priority to ensuring supply at the front. Jeffrey is also helpless, if he can, Jeffrey also wants these women and children to live a little better, but Jeffrey can't help it.

"I'll figure out a way for the tent, and you go and dispose of the corpses on the barbed wire first." Roque wants to go back to Cape Town to find Henry, and this kind of thing still needs Henry to come forward.

"Military tents? No, no, no, I can't help it, even if we go to the director, the director can't get a military tent, all the military supplies are managed by the expeditionary force command, and even our Governor-General can't interfere. "It's not that Henry doesn't help, he really can't.

When Roque returned to Cape Town, it was already night, just in time for dinner, today's dinner was custard custard and collapsed fish, and a stewed chicken, these dishes were not made by Anna, Anna did not have this skill, the current chef of Roque's family is Marven from the Qing Kingdom, Marven used to be the chef of the French Embassy in the Qing Kingdom, after the Boxer Movement began, Marven became an out-and-out two devils, and was on the blacklist of the Boxers, if Marven continued to stay in the Qing Kingdom, then it could only be a dead end, So Marvin simply accepted an offer from the Cape Town Police Department to come to Cape.

As for why Marven works here in Roque, this operation is very simple, Henry hired a chef from the Qing Kingdom under the banner of providing Chinese food for Chinese police, and only needs to prove that Marven's cooking skills are not qualified, then Henry can justifiably fire Marven.

"Can't intervene? Do you believe that? If the Expeditionary Force Command is really so strictly managed, where will the military supplies on the market come from? Roque didn't believe Henry's nonsense, and the Cape Town market was full of all kinds of military supplies, which were resold by corrupt officials.