The living conditions were really unpleasant. In the summer the heat would be extreme all day and night, and in winter the days were extremely cold that some soldiers that were on duty froze at their poles. The trenches were filled with stagnant water andinadequate sanitation, being immersed in flies, lice, mosquitoes and rats, and taking into account the rotting, empty food tins and a lot of dead bodies piled across the area between the trenches called no man's land- it was not surprising that disease was widespread.
Diseases were very easily caught in the trenches. The main one was Trench foot. It was very painful and would be so bad, the only way you could treat it was to let it heal naturally. The war was that frightening that some soldiers tried their very best to get trench foot because they knew that they would be taken from the trenches and sent to the hospitals further back away from the trenches. In the hospitals you lived in better, almost clean, conditions where you recieved care and comfert.
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