Volume 1

The Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals in South Africa, 1900-1902 / edited by the Countess Howe.

  • Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals Committee.
Date:
1902
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Credit: The Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals in South Africa, 1900-1902 / edited by the Countess Howe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    All substances were taken from the disinfecting room to a large boiler as often as was necessary, boiled for a couple of hours, and afterwards con- veyed through a pipe to a tank outside the grounds on the roadway, whence they were taken away in the sanitary earts. All the foul linen was similarly treated before being washed. Bath water was carried away in cemented surface drains to a distance of some 400 yards, then, with the bath water from the Yeomanry depot, was passed through a series of filter pits, and from them into the main drain. All dry refuse was collected within a walled enclosure, burned, and the residue then carted away by the sanitary authorities. The water supply was laid on from the main of the Johannesburg \\ ater Company, and was distributed through- out the camp by a series of stand pipes. This water was of excellent quality. All water used for drink- ing purposes in the hospital was filtered through porcelain filters. The whole camp was lighted with elec- tric light, generated by an engine and dynamo in the hos- pital grounds. Each tent and room had a light, and fourteen lights were distri- buted throughout the grounds—100 lights in all. On the south of the wards, and on a lower level, a row of iron buildings wras erected, which afforded accommodation for offices, bacteriological room, dispensary, officers’ mess, patients’ dining and reading-room, X-ray dark room, kitchens, stores, lavatories, engine-shed, and stables, &e. A series of messes were established, on the same principle as at Pretoria, viz. :— (a) One conjoint mess for convalescent officers, and the officers and sisters of the hospital staff. (b) A combined mess and reading-room for patients. (c) A sergeants’ mess. (d) An orderlies’ mess.