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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    of the ftiip through the ftove alfo, and open on its other fide. Hence two currents of heated air would be diffufed, by which means warmth and ventilation would go on together. By lengthening the tubes, the heated frefli air might be carried to any part of the Ihip, and farther diffufed. The whole would be accomplifhed at no expence except for the tubes, as the ordinary fire is fuppofed to ferve. This mode of ventilation ought to be adopted in tranfports, when the weather does not permit of a free ventilation. In tranfports men lay in hammocks,cradles, and platforms. When a fhip is at anchor, in fmooth water the cradle will be found the mofi: convenient for lick. In other fituations the platform Hands the next in point of com- fort. The platforms fhould however be fo conftrufted and placed, as to admit of paf- fages between them.