Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army : founded chiefly on the experience of the late war / by Florence Nightingale ; presented by request to the Secretary of State for War.

  • Florence Nightingale
Date:
1858
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Credit: Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army : founded chiefly on the experience of the late war / by Florence Nightingale ; presented by request to the Secretary of State for War. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO SECTION III. Absteact of the Saisitaet Eecommendatioxs made by the Medical Authoeities ee(5aeding the Hospitals at SCUTAEI. Dr. Hall writes to Major Sillery, requesting 10 Orderlies and a Fatigue Party of 15 men for the General Hospital, as, for four days, the Hospital has not been properly cleaned, and a nuisance prevails, which may prove detrimental to the health of the Patients. Dr. Menzies makes a similar application for a Fatigue Party. Dr. Menzies writes to Dr. Smith, describing the condition of the sick in the General Hospital, and the prevalence of Fever and Choleraic Diarrhoea within the building, and Bowel Com- plaints without it. He ascribes these partly to atmospheric influence, and I should also think the very close, foul, and noxious air of the Hospital may, in some degree, predispose the constitution to the disease. He complains of a catgut estab- lishment, about 70 yards from the Hospital, close to the sea, already reported by the Officer appointed to make health inspections. A Board of Medical Officers condemned the establishment. Other sanitary measures were proposed for cleaning one of the drains in the neighbourhood, and from which there is emitted unhealthy exhalations. [Was this the open ditch in the hollow ?] Had reported to Commandant to have the evil removed, and had suggested a Garrison Police to prevent repetition of such nuisances. June 21, 1864. Principal Medical Officer to Commandant. Fatigue Party. June 23, 1854. July 4. Deputy- Inspector General to Director- General. Nuisances,