Special report by Dr. Gairdner to the Magirstrates' Committee, on the proposed temporary fever hospital in Nassau Court, Anderston.

  • Gairdner, W. T. (William Tennant), Sir, 1824-1907.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Special report by Dr. Gairdner to the Magirstrates' Committee, on the proposed temporary fever hospital in Nassau Court, Anderston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    a sense of injury as led to the extraordinary threat of a wall, sixty feet high, to be erected, apparently for the sole purpose of rendering the proposed hospital useless to the community. It may be at once admitted, indeed (supposing this proposi- tion seriously made), that it would be vain for the Magis- trates to proceed in the face of such a resolution; but the rest of this Eeport may probably give some reason to believe that among the chief sufferers by such an obstructive course would be the inhabitants of Anderston itself. The proposed Hospital in Nassau Court is an edifice of six stories, formerly occupied as a Cotton Mill, and still contain- ing machinery and engines. It is situate in an enclosure which has an entrance to Main Street, Anderston; but the Mill itself is 135 feet north from Main Street, the intervening distance being partly occupied by out-houses and offices of low elevation, leaving the south wall of the Mill perfectly clear of every kind of obstruction, and open to the air and light. Towards the North the ground rises a little, and to a cor- responding extent encroaches upon the north wall of the Mill; but as the lower storey was not intended by the Magistrates to be occupied, it may be said that here also the Mill is per- fectly open to air and hght, the nearest building (saving the wall above alluded to as proposed to be erected) being at a distance of 47 feet, and even this being placed diagonaUy> so that only its nearest angle is at the above distance. On the East, the upper stories of the Mill are separated from all other buildings by a low-roofed shed of one storey, which, together with a pond still further to the east, give a clear space of 78 feet between the Mill and the nearest houses in Bishop Street. On the West side, the Mill is in contact and communi- cation with a large wing, placed crosswise as regards the main building, which it is proposed to devote to the accommodation of nurses, and of such patients as may be ascertained, after admission, not to be sufiering under infectious disease; the main body of the Mill alone being to be occupied by fever cases. Still further to the West is a range of buildings fronting Church Place, and entirely outside the enclosure of Nassau