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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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d be neatly laid out with gravelled walksand sodded borders, and the whole enclosed within a fence oriron railing. The present medical staff consists of one surgeon, one apothe-cary, one cook, and a nurse. The isolated position of the sta-tion and its duties require for efficiency one chief medical officer,one x^assed or assistant surgeon, an apothecary, two ward-masters, one cook, a scullion, and one laborer. GENERAL HOSPITAL. On the eastern extremity of Seaveys Island is an excellentsite for a small general hospital.* The view is extensive andhandsome, the soil the best on the island, and the ground gentlysloping towards the river would require little or no drainage.There is a well of the finest water, and an abundance of treesand shrubbery within the four or six acres which would beavailable as grounds for the hospital. A small establishment for four commissioned officers, andtwenty beds for enlisted men (with an allowance of 3,000 cubic * nfZeplaii of navy-yard and Seaveys Island,
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NA.VAL STATION, KITTERY, ME. 935 feet of air-space per bed), could be erected of brick or granitefor $35,000. Assuiniug- tlie correctness of Pettinkofters vie\YS, brick wouldbe the best material for construction, but the walls should bedouble, so as to allow of a stratum of air between them. Theinside walls should be hard finished and silicatedover manillafelting. The ceilings should be made vaulted and double (withregisters over the burners to allow the escape of the productsof gas combustion), and should not exceed 14 feet in height.The stairs should be of stone or iron, and the floors of the hallsand wards of close-grained ash, caulked with cement or ^chu-nam, the pores of the wood well filled in with water-glass, andthen rubbed with a mixture of boiled linseed-oil and beeswax.The general heating and ventilation might be combined by aslight modification of the plan adopted in the Herbert Hos-pital, and there should be two open fire-grates or stoA^es (suchas I have already recommend

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