A short account of the Royal Artillery Hospital at Woolwich : with some observations on the management of artillery soldiers, respecting the preservation of health addressed to the officers of the Regiment, and dedicated to the Master-General and Board of Ordnance / by John Rollo.

  • Rollo, John, -1809.
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A short account of the Royal Artillery Hospital at Woolwich : with some observations on the management of artillery soldiers, respecting the preservation of health addressed to the officers of the Regiment, and dedicated to the Master-General and Board of Ordnance / by John Rollo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To ventilate tranfports, various ways are contrived, which are fo well known that it would be fuperfluous to give a dcfcription of them. The manner and the machines are adapted and laid in previous to the embarka- tion of troops, and all the olFicer has to per- ierm, is to fee they are made ufe of. They confift generally of windfalls, a tin apparatus worked between decks, and openings in the lides, and decks, guarded by tin tubes. In warm climates thefe modes will be found fuf- licient. In cold ones, they are objeftionablc in being occalionally impracticable on ac- count of temperature. Under fuch circum- llances, the application of Mr. Mofer’s prin- ciple of throwing in heated atmofpheric air might anfwer every purpofe. Suppofe an opening was made in the fide of the Ihip, (or a port-hole might be ufed) to which was fitted a tin tube, and this conducted through the ordinary cooking ftove, and to open immediately on the oppofite fide; a fimilar tube might run from the oppofite fide