Hygienic and medical reports [electronic resource] . r each day, by order of the commanding officer,and it is only in very w^arm weather that serious injury to thehealth of the prisoners is likely to result from the accumula-tion of foul air. It would be advisable, in my oi)inion, to pro-vide prison-cells on shipboard with an iron door grated through-out, such as are used in most State prisons and i)euitentiaries ofthe United States. The dispensary is situated in the aftermost starboard cornerof the berth-deck, at an inconvenient distance from the sick-bay. It is insufficiently ventilated by a
Hygienic and medical reports [electronic resource] . r each day, by order of the commanding officer,and it is only in very w^arm weather that serious injury to thehealth of the prisoners is likely to result from the accumula-tion of foul air. It would be advisable, in my oi)inion, to pro-vide prison-cells on shipboard with an iron door grated through-out, such as are used in most State prisons and i)euitentiaries ofthe United States. The dispensary is situated in the aftermost starboard cornerof the berth-deck, at an inconvenient distance from the sick-bay. It is insufficiently ventilated by an 8-inch air-port, Avhichcannot be opened at sea or during rough weather in port, andby a square opening in the door, covered by a wire to the near neighborhood of the boilers it becomes nec-essary in hot weather to remove the ether and other volatileand inflammable liquids to the sick-bay. Always when coalingshij), or under steam and using coal from the starboard bunker,immense quantities of coal-dust sift through the bulkhead, niak-. Lamp iuul Paint Locker. PLAN OF SICK-BAY, TJ. S. S. ALLIANCE. ?I I EUROPEAN STATION. 397 iiiy it quite impossible at such times to use tlie dispensary atall. It is desirable for many reasons that the sick-bay shouldadjoin the dispensary, either by establishing the sick-bay amid-shipSj as on board the Trenton, or by turning- a part of thespace now given up to i)rison-cells into a dispensary. My ownpreference is for the former arrangement, the midshii) i^ortiouof the ship being less noisy, less affected by motion at sea, anda part where such space as can be spared for the care of thesick can be taken out in a rectangular form, and thus be madeto accommodate as many persons in cots as possible. A water-closet might perhaps also then be attached to the sick-bay,although it is doubtful if this would be an advantage on theberth-deck. The bilges of the Alliance have thus far been unusuallysweet and clean, great care having been exercised i
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