A description of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich : with a short account of the establishment of the Royal Naval Asylum.
- John Cooke
- Date:
- 1820
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A description of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich : with a short account of the establishment of the Royal Naval Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![(lie physician's division, is the Hall; opposite to it, in the back part, which belongs to the Surgeon, is the Kitchen; and in the upper story is a small Chapel, where prayers are read by the Chaplains twice a week i'or tlie benefit of the patients. In tlie four angles, and other ])arts of the buildings, are the Dispensary and Surgery, and apartments for the Physician ; for the Surgeon and Apothecary, with their respective assistants; and for the Matron. All possible care is taken that the diet of the sick is adapted to their particular caees. There is erected, contiguous to the Infirmary, an additional building, for the accommodation of 117 helpless pensloaers, in which are hot and cold baths. In this building a room is conveniently fitted up for a Medical Library. The following Epitaph teas written hi consequence fif a Letter^ addressed to the Directors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Gregntvich, by an unknown hand, requesting their permission to erect a monumental Tableti with a suitable inscription, in the Hospital Burial'Ground, to the Memory of Thomas' Main, late Quarter-Master belonging to his Majesty's ship. Leviathan, whose death was occasioned by a wound which he received in the action with the combined Fleets of France and Spain off Trafalgar, F 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21451916_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
