The report of the ordinary and resident medical officers, and the Inspector and Director of the Public Hospital, Kingston, Jamaica, for the year 1865.

  • Kingston Public Hospital (Jamaica)
Date:
1866
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Credit: The report of the ordinary and resident medical officers, and the Inspector and Director of the Public Hospital, Kingston, Jamaica, for the year 1865. 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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    nicer patients have been removefl are a very great improvement oil these hitely occupied ])ytiicm, still much is required to be done tC make them more suitable. The pavement should be. taken np and the wards floore ; alt(‘rations are rc(jiiived in the windows—thC bull lings must be sliingled, or in a short time they will not bC habitable. . As the shingling mustbe done and the accommodation for thC female patients is limited to 42 (increased ct'rtainly as I have stated beibr(‘ from 23) still tlu^ proportion of beds for females to that for males bein ■ about one-filth, it does appear to mo this state of thim^s should be remedied, and this can bo effected by raising a ward on the walls of one of the ranges now occui>icd by I tlie females, which as I have stated must be shingled. Tins perhaps belongs mo!<? ])ro])(Mly to the Island Engineer, to whom I have 'suggest(ul this addition, and who will, 1 suppose, report on it. The othor buildings require general repairs, and all the build- ings should he p:iint(*d. I have to comrliin of the unfinished state in which a flight of steps I suggest(‘d on the norrh sid'e of the first new building from the yard has been left. At tlie same time I recommended a stair case from the v(*randa of each of the new wards on to the pavement hc-iow, all of whieli met the approval of the Medical officers, and sanction oftlu^ government. The steps leading from the yard into C and D wards have hei nleft in an unfinished state, and the one at the south front of A and 13 wards in a dangerous state—a mound of earth left where a flight of steps was removed—and a bridge between the two hnildings substituted The Engineers attention has several times Inuui ealh-d to this. He states he has no funds tn Complete the wmrk. I do hope this will be put safe, aiid a fiuisli given to the work. , Thedrainagve i;^imperfect and incompiete, and the arraugeinent Cf the privies should Ise improved. j The liitchen ought nut to remain where it is—it should be removed, and an inij)roVed building snbstitutc'd in another place. Jt is a matter of great satisfaction to me to bear testimony to the zeal, care, and kindness, evinced by the medical officers to the patients. . I cannot speak in too liigh terms of the courtesy and the atten- I tion of tlie Medical Ofiicers to my suggestions and the kind maimer in which their wnshes have ahvays been conveyed to me. A schedule of the returns is sent herewith. I have the lionor to he. Sir, Your most obedient servant, A. J. LINDO, Inspector and Director- Wm. R. Mteiis, Esq., Secretary Executive Committee* Spanish.Town. : . .