Squalid living conditions and poor hospitals caused rapid disease spread among Egyptian troops

Evidence

If these were the conditions in which the soldiers lived, it is no wonder that they easily fell prey to scabies. And seeing how overcrowded, badly equipped and inefficiently run the hospitals were, then it should not be difficult to see why the authorities found it difficult to control the spread of disease to other unaffected soldiers. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1147