Naval hygiene / by Joseph Wilson, surgeon United States navy ; with an appendix: Moving wounded men on shipboard, by Albert C. Gorgas.
- Wilson, Joseph, 1816-1887
- Date:
- 1870
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Naval hygiene / by Joseph Wilson, surgeon United States navy ; with an appendix: Moving wounded men on shipboard, by Albert C. Gorgas. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![pump tlirougli its cavity. We can confidently recomniead this expedient in every case in wliicli there is inconvenience from bilge-water in a dry sliip. Of course, if dirt is allowed to obstruct the limbers, no pump can remove the nuisance. On board of steamers the pumps worked by the engine are very efficient. (17.) The pumps are in- closed in a small space called pump- well, which, is accessible for No. 2.—Floor of Sliip. the purpose of cleaning and introducing disinfectants. To this place the va- rious drains bring the water which finds its way into the bold of the ship. The principal of these drains are the limbers, cov- ered channel ways on each side of the kelson and extending the whole length of the ship. From negligence or defective arrange- ments they are liable to be stopped up by chips, mud, tar, oakum, rags, and fragments of provisio^s. The consequences of an ac- cident of this kind are apt to be very annoying and even danger- ous. Formerly it was the custom to have a chain or a rope— the limber rope—passing from end to end through the limbers and so arranged that, by acting on the ends, it might be moved backward and forward, thus stirring up the mud and removing obstructions. The better way is to omit the limber rope, which is itself a.n obstruction, and take care to arrange the hold in such a way that no mud shall ever get near the limbers. (18.) ]Slaval construc- tors have occasionally tried the experiment of building the floor of ships very flat, so that the water could not read- ily flow from the wings, the sides of the ship, to the limbers. For- tunately for health, all vessels of this form have proved utterly de- ficient in sailing quali- No. 4.—Floor of badly-formed Ships. No. 3.—Floor of Steamships.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b23984454_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
