Observations on the report of the Sanitary Commissioners in the Crimea, during the years 1855 and 1856 / by Sir John Hall.

  • Hall, John, Sir, 1795-1866.
Date:
[1857]
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Credit: Observations on the report of the Sanitary Commissioners in the Crimea, during the years 1855 and 1856 / by Sir John Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    In this Report they admit that Lt.-Col. Hardinge, the Commandant, and Admiral Boxer, the Port-Admiral had, been using their best endeavours to improve its sanitary state, but by some strange forgetfulness, for they could scarcely have been ignorant of the fact, they overlook the labors and recommendations of Dr. Anderson, Staff Sui'geon, 1st class, and Principal Medical Officer of the place, whose urgent representations on all sanitary matters extend as far back as December, J 854, and oiie of them dated 15th January, 1855, was considered of so much importance, that a Committee, of which no less a person than Lt.-Gen. Sir Colin Campbell was President, was fippointed to inquire into the matters complained of, and devise means for remedying the crying evils. \^ I annex copies of Dr. Anderson's correspondence on sanitary matters, dated 29th December, 30th December, 1854; 8th and 15th January, 16th and 19th Februaryi 13th and 28th March, 28th and 30th April, and 18t& May, 1855.* . . With reference to the huts in which the Commissioners took up their residence on their arrival in the Criniea, I liiay be allowed to quote the following extract from one of my letters to the Quartermaster-General, dated 28th 'January, 1855 : \. ^^'^^^^ ^ v.' While on the subject of health it is necessary I should onng under the notice of the Commander of the Forces, the highly objectionable site that has been selected for Erecting barrack huts on at' t;h6 entrance into Balaklava. They are placed between a newly filled and imperfectly covered Turkish grave5^ard, and a perpendicular rock; and when hot weather comes on the very worst conse- quences may naturally be expected. Notwithstanding the above warning the huts were proceeded with, and the consequence was, that those who inhabited them suffered much; and in the proceedings of the Military Sanitary Board, which was assembled on ^he 11th March, 1855, at my request, as Principal Me- dical Officer of the Army, to report on all matters connected with the health of the army, th^re is the following remark:— That, in their opinion, the site of the hutted encami^ment at present occupied by the ^^^Id- stream Guards is highly objectionable : ■ ''^ ' * ' , , * ,yide Dr. Anderson's Letters in Appep^ix,^]parked 4.