Emily Hobhouse by Henry Walter Barnett - National Portrait Gallery - photograph uploaded on Wikipedia
This Day in History: January 24, 1901
Additional Date: January 24, 1901
Emily Hobhouse, an English philanthropist and social worker who visited the Transvaal and Orange Free State Republics during the Second Anglo Boer War, reported to the British government that she found 2 000 women and children in shocking circumstances in the British concentration camp at Bloemfontein. The British government was unsympathetic to the plight of the prisoners and the dire circumstances continued. It was estimated that more than 27 000 people in White camps and more than 18 000 inhabitants of Black camps had died in captivity during the war.