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Title:
PRO 30/55/035/055 - Copy Letter from John Marshall, Geo Fred Boyd, G Innes, James Kay to And Finmane
Date:
1782
Language:
English
Date from:
1782-01-17
Date to:
1782-01-17
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/035/055
Full Description:
John Marshall and others. Halifax. Report of hospital staff and regimental surgeons. As to the disease in question, it appears to be the jail or hospital fever. Submit that the 'Stanislaus' prison ship should be destroyed. The prison ships in the harbour in the winter, cannot fail to foster malignant diseases. Also that the naval and prison hospitals are too close together and that as the disease has found its way into the regiment's hospital, strict attention should be parid to space, air, cleanliness and separation between the sick and the healthy.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16318274
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_35_55