Identifier: MSHWRMedical3 (find matches)
Title: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume I. (3rd Medical volume)
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: U.S. Army Surgeon General's Office
Subjects: Civil War military medicine Medicine, Military -- History United States Medical care United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Medical and sanitary affairs
Publisher: Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine
Contributing Library: U.S. Army Medical Museum

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the rations. No complaints appear under these headings in any of the inspection reports. In the hospitalfile fund was liberally exiiended in the luirehase of delicacies for the use of the sick. Good light bread and cornbread, with potatoes three times a week, were issued to the jirisoners. The \vater-siip)ily was abundant and of fair (quality. It was pumped from tlie Mississippi river into a reservoirand distributed to the camp and hospital by pipes. An artesian and three ordinary wells inside the prison enclosurefurnished a good supply in addition to that from the river. Ihe sinks were at first simply pits, from which the accumulations were removed by carts and thrown into theriver. At later dales these were abandoned and a large latrine was constructed in the prison, coninmnicating withthe river by means of a trench. Daily flushing swept the deposits into the river. The sinks in the hospital wereprovided with zinc buckets, which were emptied twice daily. em 7^ 3.o pion (5T) i (2) IF
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