12 Jan 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
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Medical Dept (?) have started to send bread daily - one slice each with butter or jam ((this was in addition to our simple basic rations)). Also porridge.
Finished reading 'Human Being' ((a birthday present a week before Jap attack)) and passed it to Jack Fancey as he had nothing to read. ((Jack - about my age - had TB which had prevented him from going fighting with the others. His mother (also in Tai Koon) told me he might as well have gone to war with his colleagues and risk being killed, as he was obviously going to die soon.))
We are due for Stanley within the next week. Very cold.
Wrote to Mum. ((Still at Queen Mary Hospital, there were occasional opportunities of contact through some one in the Tai Koon Hotel getting permission to go to the hospital for some medical reason.))
