Dr. R.J. Reece's report to the Local Government Board on an outbreak of enteric fever in the Royal Marine depôt at Walmer.

  • Reece, Richard James.
Date:
1909
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Credit: Dr. R.J. Reece's report to the Local Government Board on an outbreak of enteric fever in the Royal Marine depôt at Walmer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. R. J. Reece’s Report to the Local Govern- ment Board on an outbreak of Enteric Fever in the Royal Marine Depot at Walmer. Arthur Newsholme, Medical Officer, 24th February, 1909. Circumstances under which the Inquiry was Undertaken. On 7til November, 1908, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty addressed the Local Giovernment Board on the subject of occurrence of enteric fever at the Royal Marine Depot, Walmer. And their Lordships requested that one of the Board’s Medical Staff should be charged with the duty of investigating the outbreak in question. Description of the Depot. The Royal Marine Depot comprises three separate sets of Barracks and a Hospital. These Barracks, styled severally “ North,” “ South,” and “East,” are situated in the Walmer Urban District ; the Hospital is in the Borough of Deal. To this depot young men joining the Royal Marines as recruits are sent for eleven months’ training antecedent to being di-afted to the Royal Marine Head Quarters at Chatham, Portsmouth or Plymouth. The North Barracks contain six blocks built at different periods. Blocks G, H and J were erected about the year 1800, under the auspices of the War Department. Blocks E, F, & K, of quite different design and construction, in 1896, by the Admiralty. The South Barracks comprise only two blocks, each divided into two sub-blocks, A and B constituting one block, C and D another. Between the two blocks stands the officers’ mess. The buildings in question were erected about the year 1800. The East Barracks, formerly a Hospital, were converted to present use in 1901. They comprise Blocks L, M, N, O, and P, all parts of one building, and thus differing in design from the blocks in the other Barracks. Each Barrack is self-contained in a domestic and administrative sense. There are separate kitchens for each Barrack and a separate staff is employed in each kitchen. Each Barrack has its own set of latrines and urinals, bath and washhouses and so forth. The Hospital is a modern building and consists of an administra- tion block, six ward pavilions, kitchen, laundry, mortuary, &c. There is a high pressure steam disinfecting apparatus, and a small refuse destructor within the Hospital enclosure. In each of the Barracks and at the Hospital thei’e are separate detached houses for the resident staff, and there are “ married quarters ” in the South Barracks. Pf'ater Supply.—The water supply to the whole Depot is a constant service, and is derived from deep wells in the Chalk, situated in the N.W. of the Walmer Urban District. The water works are owned jointly by the Corporation of Deal and the (12045—21.) Wt. 20360—76, 250. 3/09. D & S, A