Considerations respecting the expediency of establishing an hospital for officers on foreign service : suggested by the writer's experience during the late occupation of Walcheren / [Sir Arthur Brooke Faulkner].

  • Faulkner, Arthur Brooke, Sir, 1779-1845
Date:
1810
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Credit: Considerations respecting the expediency of establishing an hospital for officers on foreign service : suggested by the writer's experience during the late occupation of Walcheren / [Sir Arthur Brooke Faulkner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From the foregoing figure, it will be seen that each officer would possess the accommodation of a separate apartment, in which he could not be seen by any but his attendants, while he would enjoy a sufficiently free circulation of air. The screens, which form the compartments, might be constructed of such slight materials that they could always be readily made upon foreign service, without materially adding to the incum¬ brance of stores. The fire-screens which are used in large coffee-rooms, constructed of deal frames and pasteboard, would answer every purpose to which these are meant to be applied. With respect to the second objection, arising from the expence of the establishment, this will not, I presume, be found entitled to any serious consideration. The principal difference to be made between the accommodation of sick officers and sick soldiers, regards the quality of provisions and necessaries ; but if the expence arising out of this difference should form any ground of objection, let the officers contribute towards the expence, in proportion to their respective rank and pay. This proposal is agreeable to the practice of the French service, and its equity is indisputable. But, notwithstanding all that has been urged upon this subject, I wish it still to be understood, that it should be perfectly optional on the part of our officers to avail themselves of the proposed in¬ stitution. The improbability, however, of any ma¬ terial objection to it on their part, may be obvious,