Series:
"Instructions for the Management of Convict Hospitals" Hobart Town Advertiser Office. Printed.
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
01 Jan 1845
End Date:
31 Dec 1845
Creating Agency:
| Convict Department (TA60) | 01 Jan 1818 | 31 Dec 1877 |
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Series notes:
The book is a manual of rules, compiled by J. Robertson, M.D., Deputy Inspector of Hospitals, and this copy is marked for use at the Brickfields Hospital.
The first section comprises instructions for Medical Officers in regard to the professional duties and the administration of hospitals generally. The second deals with permanent hospitals at Hobart, New Norfolk and Launceston and enumerates the responsibilities of the House Surgeon, the Clerk, the Matron of the Female Hospital, the Steward, the Wardmaster, Wardsmen and Nurses, the Porter, the Deputy Purveyor and the Apothecary. Eleven appendixes deal with records, admissions, diet, stores, accounts, drugs, diseases.
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