Dec 8 1918 . . . . Keep awake to receive patients . .  . . Running a hospital now and I am on night duty in the receiving ward  . . . First night shift  . . . We received about between one hundred and one hundred and twenty five patients in all between the hours of six o’clock and eight o’clock . . . Transferred from another field hospital . . . We receive all kinds of cases here and keep them for some time . . . French seem to be slowly coming back to their torn up homes . . . Verdun was the most deserted town that I have seen  . . . Only the soldier passing to and from the front lines it was deserted . . .