Military hygiene / 2nd ed.

  • Caldwell, Robert, 1859-1919.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Military hygiene / 2nd ed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    and, other things being equal, the worse the Ventilation, the greater the number of flies. Dining-rooms, kitchens, grocery-bar, or meat-store may be found too near the stables, the food being therefore in danger of contamination by the above pests. In inspecting old barracks, a particular atten- tion should be paid to the relative positions of buildings one to another. It will not be possible to reconstruct the barracks, but the defects may be mitigated by the re- appropriation of buildings. The latter came into existence FIG. 64.—MALPLAQUET BARRACKS, ALDERSHOT : BUNGALOW TYPE. Photo by Gale and Polden, Aldershot. when hygiene, as we know it at present, was practically unknown, and when all kinds of insanitary abominations were viewed, not only with indifference, but with actual com- placency, as forming a part of an established order which should not be lightly tampered with. The ignorance of bygone years has been perpetuated in the form of insanitary arrangements which are almost always found in com- bination, so that an old barrack is a perfect museum of defects. 2. The Casemate Barrack.—The casemate barrack must, in