Notes on hospitals / by Florence Nightingale.

  • Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Notes on hospitals / by Florence Nightingale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    expel the vermin. As at Ramandroog, where men are sent for their health, the building swarms with bugs. And so of every barrack and hospital where these wooden bedsteads are used. One surgeon complains of the serious injury to his sick occasioned by want of sleep from vermin. The bedding is of hemp or straw, instead of hair. Hair it ought always to be in hospitals, and hair is now the regulation in all Queen's hospitals. It appears from several reports that sheets are not provided except for dysentery and fever : and certainly in no hospital deserving the name should the In- spector-general feel himself called on to recommend that a good mattress, a blanket, sheets, and pillow-cases should be provided for every bed, as does the excellent Inspector- general of the Madras Presidency. Figs. 27, 28, are illustrations of the smaller class of regi- FiG. 27. Plan and Elevation of Horse Artillery Hospital, Bangalore. Section on A B.