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
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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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    July 9. Deputy Inspector- General to Director- General. Nuisances to be removed. July. Salt Provisions. July 6. Principal Medical Officer to Deputy Inspector- General. Nuisances. July 22. Director- General to Deputy Inspector- General. Neighbour- hood of Hospitals. August 24. Deputy Inspector- General to Director- General. Nuisances removed. August i. Dr. Anderson July 9.—Dr. Menzies writes to Dr. Smith that steps are being taken by the Turkish authorities to have the nuisances removed. July.—At this date, such was the state of the Commissariat administration, opposite a city of 650,000 inhabitants, that Dr. Menzies was obliged to recommend salt provisions for the troops, as fresh meat was not obtainable, whereat Lord Raglan expresses his surprise. Dr. Menzies had adopted the notable expedient of feeding men predisposed to, or actually labouring under, Diarrhcea on salt provisions, by way of change. If these things were done in the green tree, what might we not expect in the dry ? July 6.—Dr. Hall writes from Varna to Dr. Menzies, ex- pressing a hope that he would be able to have the catgut and drain nuisances removed. Lord Raglan had mentioned the former to the Turkish authorities. He asks, by the way, was anything ever done about getting the pipes leading from the water closets cleared, as I notice you mention bad smells within the Hospital, which ought not to exist, if that had been done ? July 22.—The Director-General writes to Dr. Menzies, asking to be informed what steps have been taken to improve the sanitary condition of the immediate neighbourhood of the Hospital at Scutari. August 24.—Dr. Menzies replies, reporting the nuisance complained of removed, i. e., the catgut manufactory. The drainage much improved, the privies looked to, and thoroughly cleansed out. The air both within and without much im- proved. He will see sanitary measures, in future, strictly carried out. [These measures, it will be observed, refer exclusively to the General Hospital. The first notice of the sanitary state of the building, after- wards used as the fatal Barrack Hospital, occurs on Aug. 4, 1854, at which date it was occupied by troops.] August 4.—Dr. Anderson, who signs himself as Sanitary