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At home the Royal Warrant provides them with one iron 

 bedstead, one palliasse, one bolster, two blankets, one rug, 

 two sheets, and these washed or changed, as they become 

 soiled or useless. 



Description of the Hospital. 



Built in 1808, on a high dry slope about 320 feet to the 

 east of the Barracks, and consists of two buildings, the 

 largest, 3 sides of a square surrounded by an enclosed veran- 

 dah \2 feet wide, with Venetians and glass above; but the 

 ends are not enclosed, which materially detracts from the 

 appearance of the building and the comfort of the sick. 



The building consists of four wards ; the largest to the 

 south is 101 feet long, 18 wide, and \2\ high, with three 

 ventilators ; the one to the east is 61 feet long, 81 wide, and 

 has two ventilators ; that to the west is divided into two 

 wards, which are respectively 24 and 27 feet by 18 in width, 

 and are appropriated for the women and the worst cases. 

 These wards are well ventilated and very comfortable. 



To the north, and detached, at a distance of sixty-three 

 feet, is the convalescent ward; it is 84 feet long, 18 wide, 

 and \2\ high, and has been altered and surrounded with a \2 

 feet enclosed verandah, similar to the rest of the hospital. 



The hospital is calculated to contain 60 patients ; but in 

 the event of an emergency, the verandahs being now enclos- 

 ed, it will contain as many more. The hospital is surrounded 

 by a wall 9 feet high, and forms an oblong, 279 feet from 

 north to south, and 199| feet from east to west. The dis- 

 tance from the hospital to the wall on the east, west and 

 and south, is about 33 feet, and on the north 43 feet. It 

 contains the hospital Serjeant's quarters, the guard-room, 

 cook-room, surgery godown, or store-room, privy, and dead 

 house ; in the centre is a shed for holding water, or for 

 shower baths. 



As a general remark, the wards of the entire hospital are 

 too narrow and also too low, which gives them a confined 



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