Report to the Right Hon. Lord Panmure, G.C.B., &c., Minister at War, of the proceedings of the Sanitary Commission dispatched to the seat of war in the East, 1855-56 / presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, March 1857.

  • United Kingdom. Sanitary Commission (1855-1856)
Date:
1857
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Credit: Report to the Right Hon. Lord Panmure, G.C.B., &c., Minister at War, of the proceedings of the Sanitary Commission dispatched to the seat of war in the East, 1855-56 / presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, March 1857. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    General Hospital were completed at the beginning of tlie month, ifinetj-five flushing operations Avere carried out with the sewers at the Barrack and General Hospitals. The latrines and privies at both hospitals were flushed out ninety- six times. There were also tAVO dead horses buried. Up to the 11th July, the date when the Inspector's daily reports cease, there were removed 526 hand-carts full of refuse from the ground near the hospital. The sewers at the two hospitals were flushed out thirty-six tmies, and the privies and latrines thirty-six times. Besides the amount of cleansing and prevention of nuisances carried out by the men placed at the disposal of the Inspector of the Commission, there was much filth removed from the Palace Hospital and from Kulali by a staflp of men employed by the Purveyor; the Inspector confining his duty in regard to these men to .seeing that the work was well and carefully done. In the beginning of July the system of cleansing had been so well organized that it appeared to be unnecessary to detain the Inspector much longer from his duties in Liverpool, where he was required. Dr. Sutherland, therefore, recom- mended Lord William Paulet to appoint two men as Inspec- tors, one at Scutari, the other at Kulali, to remain for a short time under Mr. Wilson's instruction, and to succeed him on his return home.* The following abstract of a few of the Inspector's daily reports may be useful as showing the manner of proceeding, and the amount of cleansmg, and the removal of nuisances required to fuiai the intention of the instructions issued by the Commissioners : ■ On the 26th March there were fourteen men employed at the Barrack Hospital sweeping the ground outside, and the square inside. Removed forty hand-carts of filth and rubbish from the ground and from the privies Swept the streets and removed ten large basketsful of filth. Employed four men m carrying water to the flushing tanks, and flushed the sewers of the hospital three times. Employed six men in removing filth from the vicinity of the General Hospital. Swept the ground outside and removed ten hand- carts of filth from ,t. Visited all the three hospitals at Scutari 27t]i Mai-ch.--rour men carrying water to flushing tanks at Barrack Hosp.tal. Flushed the sewers three times. Six n.en removing contents of a large sewer opened in the barrack square, and forty-two hand-carts of filth removed fron it, after being deodorized with peat charcoal. Six men swept the ground mside and outside the hospital and the adjacent streets; twenty
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