Contributions to the military medical statistics of the Bombay Presidency / by John Kinnis.

  • Kinnis, John.
Date:
1851
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Contributions to the military medical statistics of the Bombay Presidency / by John Kinnis. 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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    the 22(1 Regiment, one as an liospital, and another as quarters for medical subordinates and married soldiers. Thirty paces from the hospital, on the south-east, are two small groups of prison cells, three in each, with a surrounding verandah ten feet -wide, a double door, the inner being an open frame of iron bars, and a window in each wall, with ventilation fans in the roof. The cantonment is supplied with water from a chain of wells extending along the dry bed of a water course, near the govern- ment garden to the west. It has a slightly brackish taste. Wells dug to the east of the cantonments yield water too brackish to be fit for any use. c. Hospital.—The hospital is fifty yards to the north-east of the barracks, and consists of three pendals, two a little in front of, and one a little behind, their rear line ; the last twenty-two feet distant from the first, and equal in length to the two, which are seventeen feet apart. The walls are of stone and lime, ten feet high inside, the floor of clay and chunam, raised two feet from the ground, the roofs tiled, and the ridge pole twenty-two feet two inches high. The rear building has ou each side of a central passage two small and one large room, the dimensions of the for- mer being twenty-nine feet nine by eighteen feet five, and of the latter seventy-two by twenty-nine feet nine inches: one of the small rooms is used as a surgery, one as apprentices' quarters ; the others, and the two large, as wards. Thirty patients may be accom- modated in each of the two large, and seven in each of the small wards, or seventy-four in the whole pendal, with an allowance in the first of 71* square and 957f cubic feet, and in the second of 78f square and 1048§ cubic feet. The two front pendals consist each of one ward, corresponding in breadth and height to those in the rear, and capable of accommodating each thirty-eight patients, at the rate ( f 69|] square and 9341f cubic feet. The whole hos- pital, then, is capable of accommodating 150 men. In the large wards of the pendal are three doors and eight windows, in the small rooms one door and two windows, in the wards of the front pendals four doors windows. The doors are half glazed, the windows four feet six inches by three feet in size, and * ?2 X 29f -= 2142 -4-30 = 71. t 2142 X 10 = 21420 -I- i^-^^ = C ft. 1 — 2 ft. 8 = 3 ft. 5 x 2142 =) 7318 = 28738 30 = 957. t 29J X 18 ft.' 5 = 547 -1- 7 = 78. § 547 X 10 = 5470 -I- (^-^-^^ = 6 ft. 1 — 2 ft. 8 = 3 ft. 5 x 547 =) 1868 = 7338 — 7 = 1048. II 09 X '29? = 2647 38 = 69. ^ 2647 X 10 = 26470 + (~-^ = 6 ft. 1 — 2 ft, 8 = 3 ft. 5 x 9044 =) 35514 -f- 38 == 934.