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Hospital-SHIP
Hospital-SHIP, a vessel fitted up to attend on a fleet of men of war, and receive their sick or wounded; for which purpose her decks should be high, and her ports sufficiently large. The gun-deck is entirely appropriated for the reception of the sick, and is flush without cabins or bulk-heads; except one of deal, or canvas, for separating those in malignant distempers. Two pair of checquered linen sheets are allowed to each bed, and scuttles cut in the sides for inlets of air. The sick are visited by a physician, and constantly attended by a surgeon, a proportionable number of mates, assistants, servant to him, a baker and washerwomen. Her cables ought also to run upon the upper deck, to the end that the beds or cradles may be more commodiously placed between decks, and admit a free passage of the air, to disperse that which is offensive or corrupted.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 264, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1194.html