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The accommodation for the troops is commodious, 

 and in general well constructed, and in good situa- 

 tions ; nearly one-third of the troops is located in case- 

 mated barracks. The military hospital (formerly the 

 naval hospital, and known still better by this designa- 

 tion), is a noble pile of buildings, situated on a flat 

 below Buena Vista ; it can accommodate upwards of 

 four hundred patients. Each regiment has so many 

 wards allotted to it, of which their respective medical 

 officers have charge ; the whole establishment being 

 under the immediate supervision of the principal 

 medical officer. A lunatic asylum, for the temporary 

 accommodation of insane patients among the soldiers, 

 has lately been added to this establishment, the ar- 

 rangement and construction of which have occupied 

 the constant attention of Dr. Gillkrest,* the late 

 principal medical officer. The ordnance hospital, situ- 

 ated on a higher flat, called Buena Vista, above the 

 naval hospital, is a small range of old buildings, which 

 can only accommodate about thirty patients. The 

 civil hospital is situated on a projecting hill in the 

 town, but sufficiently away from other houses of the 

 inhabitants (the adjoining buildings are commissariat 

 quarters). This establishment owes its origin to the 

 late Sir George Don. It affords medical and surgical 

 relief to the sick poor of Gibraltar, and even to 

 strangers who may seek relief there ; sailors from the 

 shipping in the bay are also admitted into its wards. 



* The writer of the article on yellow fever in the 

 * Cyclopaedia of Medicine.' 



