Proceedings and report of a special medical board appointed by His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, and Secretary of State at War, to examine the state of the hospital at the military depot in the Isle of Wight, &c. &c. &c.

  • Great Britain. Army Medical Board.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Proceedings and report of a special medical board appointed by His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, and Secretary of State at War, to examine the state of the hospital at the military depot in the Isle of Wight, &c. &c. &c. 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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    4 . Letter from the Secretary at War to His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief. f( Sir, War Office^ 18th Dec. 1801. “ In the monthly report made to Your Royal Highness by the Army Medical Board on the 1 st instant, they intimated their intention of bringing forward certain circumstances re- garding the treatment of the sick in the Isle of Wight, to which their attention had been led in the course of their investigating the subject of some papers transmitted by General Hewett, and referred by me to the board relative to the economy of the said hospital. “ I have accordingly received from Sir Lucas Pepys and Mr. Keate the letter of which I have now the honor of transmitting a copy for Your Royal Highness’s consideration, together with five enclosures referred to therein. “When the Physician and Surgeon General of the army officially state, that the officer placed at the head of any military hospital has taken upon himself to reduce the sick table es- tablished by Your Royal Highness’s authority for general use; and when they ascribe to the system pursued in that particular hospital (how- ever it may produce an apparent saving of B