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(seq. 41)
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(seq. 42)
watch coats be assigned to every barge. The comparative differenec between the health of cavalry infantry & bargemen justifies the advice if defending the latter from the severity of raw & cold weather after the severe [?] of rowing
I have finally denounced in my former posts to construction of some of the [underlined] blackholes [underlined], in which men are sometimes reduced nearly to death in them & two often contract complaints, that shorten their lives & render them uncomfortable while they do exist:
I speak generally when I say that I am not very well pleased with the [underlined]quality[underlined] of the medicines used by surgeons. I very rarely find the articles equal to what the British in their services. I hope the new arrangement will operate in improvement.
Presuming that Dr Euston would attend to the quarterly returns, I have been less critical with them, but as I looked over them in the apl hsp office I couldnt but notice marks of some neglect. One surgeon notes no day book, or case book because he has no paper. I propose to send a circular to the surgeons in this department pointing out the leaness of their reports & suggesting more fullness. Some of the comments of post object to the Surgeon [deletion]making[deletion] mentioning the number this garrison without reflecting then when the surgeon returns more than ten perent sick I ought to make particular enquiry into the local causes
(seq. 43)
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(seq. 44)
August 15th 1816
Major Genl Brown:
Sir, When I enquired in my recent letter whether it would be your pleasure that I should visit the posts & make the enquiries, [deleted text] make report on the plan of my visit the last season, I should have detailed my reasons for it-
General Porter says he has never paid any attention to the medicine hall [deleted], & is ignorant of their relative duty, or relative grades. His idea is that a Hospital is the surgeon of a [underlined] hospital[underlined], if there be no hospital he has nothing to do. The medical directorship of the Junior Surgeon of a Department he has no idea of, and he says that he has never once turned his thoughts to that subject, and therefore he gave it as his opinion that I had better write to you on the subject of visiting posts, among other
(seq. 45)
Canbridge 25 Sptr 1816]
To Lieut Col. Eustice
Command 32d Dept
As the Senior Hospital Surgeon of a Dept & ex office the advisory officer to the Commander in whatsoever relates to the health [deleted text] of the troops, I take the liberty most respectfully to state a peculiar case of a private at the Arterial in Charlestown under [deleted text] the command of Capt Falcot[deleted text]
The man is named Wm Jones, & is a confirmed Pox for which he has been salurated [deleted text]without removing the dressings [deleted text]. To save his life & retain his usefulness it is necessary that he should need so another couple of medicine & merely ^in such a debilitated subject cannot be pushed to a great length without great care & caution, & that too in an hospital, and there is no room at the arsenal in [deleted text] Charlestown [deleted text] feel to be appropriate to that purpose
The man is in the common barrack, a small room sujbect alternately to heat & cold. His besides filled with other men, who consider a man in the con dition of Jones a nuisance & will probably treat him as such accordingly. frm these two cases par ticularly the first, I give it in my opinion that he ought to be [deleted text] removed [deleted text] some suitable place provided for him close where, [deleted text] for Capt Fuleal appeases me that there is no room for him here as the room where he sas is [deleted text] It will be full a year before the room for a hospital annexed to the new arsenal will be fit to receive a patient. In the meant time, I presume that such peculiar cases as the one described^ & cases will be [unclear]