Note 96 — CHAP. I.
Reading edition
In a review of Haslar hospital made in person by that excellent officer, Vice-admiral Barrington, in 1780, it was very judiciously proposed, among other salutary improvements, that there should be two apartments for the reception of the sick upon their first landing; one wherein they should be stripped of their dirty clothes, and another in which they should go into the warm bath, and put on the hospital dress, that they might not carry infection into the wards.