A letter to Mr. Keate, Surgeon-General to the Forces / [Robert Jackson].
- Robert Jackson
- Date:
- 1808
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A letter to Mr. Keate, Surgeon-General to the Forces / [Robert Jackson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![made against me, together with their refutation and the decision of the Commander in Chief thereon. Copy of a Letter from the Army Medical Board to the Secretary at War, dated December 0.0th, 1801. Sir, WE have the honour to acknowledge the re¬ ceipt of your letter of the 14th ult. with the inclosed pa- pears, directing us, “ after comparing the statement of the expenditure for the hospital in the Isle of Wight, with that for other general hospitals in this country, to report to you our opinion whether it would be expedient at pre¬ sent to make any, and what alteration in the system es¬ tablished by Dr. Jackson, or whether Dr. Jackson’s re¬ gulations appear to have been framed with so due a re¬ gard to economy, and to the advantage of the troops, as to afford just ground for considering the propriety of in¬ troducing them into other general hospitals at home.” We have the honor to acquaint you, that we have made the comparative statement of the expenditure for that hospital with that of the other general hospitals at home, but we find, that, by far the greater proportion of patients in those hospitals, is of a very different descrip¬ tion of sick from those former] v at Chatham, and now in * ' the Isle of Wight. With respect to the question unconnected with other circumstances, which in the course of this investigation it will be our duty to lay before you, it appears to be, whe¬ ther a liberal and generous diet is requisite to restore men, who have either been debilitated by disease, or by active debilitating remedies. It appears that Dr. Jackson’s mode of carrying on the Isle of Wight hospital is an apparent saving of money; but](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31884258_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
