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Identifier: b20403513 (find matches)
Title: Hygienic and medical reports (electronic resource)
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Parker, Joseph Benson, 1841-1915 United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Sanitary and medical reports
Subjects: United States. Navy Naval hygiene Naval Medicine
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Wellcome Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellcome Library

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ch is low, damp, and leaky, a smallscullery or wash-house, two rooms used as quarters hy the ajioth-ecary, a dispensary, and two small wards. There are no bath-rooms nor laundry, and no j)roper conveniences for the sick.The only water-closet is situated at the side of the main build-ing, next to the summer kitchen, and consists of a shallow ^ aultwith a wooden sux>erstructure. Adjoining the water-closet isa small frame building (formerly a store-room) Avhich is used forsurgeons office. In summer most of the cooking is done in thescullery, but in winter the basement kitchen is used, and theodor of pro\4sions boiling and baking is at times sickening andoffensive to patients. The building is lighted by gas introducedfrom the yard, and a large cistern in the basement kitchen fur-nishes an ample supply of water. The wards are warmed by stoves and ventilated oidy by win-dows and doors. They are so liable to draughts from the oldrickety window-frames and the cracked and rotting walls that
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NAYAL STATION, KITTEEY, ME. 929 screens have to be used around i^atients beds during the winterseason. ISTumber 1 ward, running north and south, with an easternexposure, measures 29 feet 2 inches by 15 feet 6 inches by 8feet 3 inches, equals 3,729 cubic feet 8 inches, and contains 8beds. Deducting chimneys, beds, stove, and furniture, equals122 cubic feet 7 inches, this gives about 450 cubic feet of air-space per bed. The ventilation is secured by eight windows,each 5 feet by 2 feet 6 incbes, and two doors. Ward 1^0.2, running liorth and south, with a western expos-ure, measures 29 feet 2 inches by 23 feet 6 inches by 8 feet 3inches, equals 5,054 cubic feet 8 inches. Deducting stairway,chimney, stove, furniture, and twelve beds, equals 238 cubicfeet 10 inches, there remain 5,415 feet 10 inches, or about 450cubic feet for each occupant. Into these two wards over 27 patients have at times beencrowded, thereby reducing the air-space to 371 cubic feet perman—an amount nearly nine times

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