MEMOIR ()! I)K WRIGHT. • » 10.'i 



were kept clean, and in permitting the men under 

 their command to indulge in slovenly and uncleanly 

 habits on ship-board. Typhus or ship-fever continued 

 to rage in the harbour ; but the patients were sent on 

 shore as soon as they were seized with it, and Dr 

 Wright did not observe it to spread after reaching 

 the hospital. 



" Yesterday," he observes, in writing to Dr Garth- 

 shore on the 20th of March, " in one ship I found 

 forty-seven men ill of typhus, and objects for the hos- 

 pital. 



" The medical assistants in transports," he conti- 

 nues, " are in general raw and uninformed. The 

 examination at Surgeons' Hall is no doubt proper in 

 its kind ; but every man acting on board a transport, 

 or with detachments of troops, ought to be more of 

 the physician than the surgeon ; and surely they 

 ought to be examined by two or more physicians who 

 have crossed the Atlantic, and had experience of tro- 

 pical diseases." 



It was at first intended that the general hospital 

 should be fixed at Barbadocs, where Dr Wright was 

 stationed ; but being situated so far to windward, it 

 was afterwards found that a scarcity of transports 

 made that arrangement inconvenient. In the month 

 of April 1796, the head quarters of the armament 

 were moved to St Lucia, and Dr Wright was left in 

 command of all the military hospitals in Barbadoes. 

 At St Lucia, as well as at St Domingo, the mortality 

 among the troops was most appalling. Fluxes and 

 remittents were the prevailing diseases, and at this 



