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Concentration Camps
- Statistics
- At their peak the camps
contained over 140,000 people
- Death rates were
high at 34% in white
camps
- It is likely that conditions and death
rates in black camps were worse
- An estimated 20,000 Boers died
- 12,000 Black Africans died
- Sept. 1900 they held
11000 people
- Disease broke out, killing 27,927
Boers, many of which were children.
- At their peak the camps
contained over 140,000 people
- Hobhouse report
- Emily
Hobhouse
visited in
January 1901
- She wrote to her brother,
a journalist on the
Manchester Guardian
(anti-war)
- Letters first circulated
among MPs and then
published in the
Manchester Guardian
- Many MPs and members of the
public were outraged about camp
conditions.
- Emphasis on women in the
report was significant to the
growing suffrage debate in
Britain.
- Influenced Campbell Bannerman to
make the 'methods of barbarism'
speech on 14 June 1901
- Emily
Hobhouse
visited in
January 1901
- The Fawcett commission
- Millicent Fawcett was a
leading women's
suffrage campaigner
- She was asked by the
government to go to
South Africa to report
upon the conditions in the
camps following
Hobhouse's reports
- Her commission
supported
Hobhouse's
findings
- recommended that rations, hygiene
and medical care be improved.
- Also said that the camps should be
administered by civilian, not military
authorities.
- Death rates fell to 6.9% and
eventually to 2%
- Millicent Fawcett was a
leading women's
suffrage campaigner
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