e is no Place to receive
them in the common Hospital Ships, they must remain almost
without Assistance in a crowded Cabin amongst People in
Health; as was the Case in some of our Expeditions during the
late War.

All Hospitals attending Expeditions should carry out among their
Stores a Number of large Tents for lodging the Sick and Wounded
immediately on making good their Landing. Where a Siege is expected
which will take up Time, and where no Accommodations for the Sick can
be had till the Siege is over, a Ship or two, with Boards, and other
Necessaries for building large Sheds, or temporary Hutts, for the
Sick, as proposed by Dr. _Brocklesby_, ought to go along with the
Fleet, or meet them at the Place of their Destination. Such thatched
Sheds, or Hutts, are very necessary in the warm Climates, as the
perpendicular Rays of the Sun, beating upon Canvass, make Tents
intolerably hot. When any of our own Settlements happen to be near the
Place attacked, a fixed Hospital may be established there; either in
Houses, if proper ones can be found; or in temporary Sheds or Hutts
erected for that Purpose; and some Vessels, properly fitted up, may be
kept going with the Sick and Wounded, and bringing back the recovered
Men.

At every Military Hospital a Serjeant's Guard ought to mount; and
Centinels be placed at the Doors of the Hospital, 1. To prevent all
Visitors, who have not proper Leave, from coming into the Hospitals;
as such People oftentimes crowd the Wards, disturb the Sick, and are
apt to catch infectious Distempers, and to spread them among the
Troops. 2. To take Care the Patients do not go out of the Hospital
without having a Ticket[162] of Leave for that Purpose, signed by the
Physician, Surgeon, or Apothecary, belonging to the Hospital. 3. To
prevent spirituous Liquors, or other Things of that Kind, being
clandestinely carried into the Hospital.

[162] At every Hospital there ought to be a Number of printed
Tickets lying ready to be filled up and signed by the
Physicians and Surgeons, and no Man ought to be allowed to go
out without a Ticket so signed.

The Serjeant of the Guard, attended by the Ward Master, ought, every
Morning, to go round the Wards to call a Roll, and see that every Man
is in his Ward; and to do the same at Night before the Hospital Doors
are shut, and at this Time to order every Person out of the Hospital
who does not belong to it. And the Serjeant, every Mor