The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-24 00:00:00

STOCK.

S canteens or medical chests,each containing 338 dress,
Lugs.
4 medicine chests.
4 canteens of administration for the stock.
16 canteens of reserve fur the health service.
22 do. for the administrative service.
20 do. for the Private use of the medical staff officers.
10 tons of vegetable infusions.
20 hand barrows.
200 counterpanes (or quilts).
50 tilts and awnings for the sick, &c.
30 tents.
24 litters.

6561 pair of mule-seats.
The total of the resources amounts io 6,50) dressings,
distributed among the various canteens in use or in reserve.
The conveying of ali this stock is performed by 364 pack
mules.

The stock of a regular ambulance, for a division of 10,000
men, is composed of live vans, each carrying 2,,,00 dressings,
and all that would set up the dispensary of a sw all hospi-
tal. The ambulance of a cavalry division consists of three
vans only. Each van is drawn by four horses.
The military administration of the Eastern army has at
its disposal 23 ambulance vans fitted up in the way de-
scribed. The entire medical and hospital staff, now with
the French army in the East, is composed of-
-276 physicians or apothecaries.
54 officers of Ara uistratiou.
5U hospital sisters (female nurses).
731 male nurses.

As for the dispensary stock, withoat including what is
required for present use in the ambulances, there has been
already sent from France for the organisation of permanent
hospitals at different paints, a complete lit out of medica-
ments for 7,700 patients, not including also the require-
ments in the hospital of the Piraeus, that make up 500
beds. At this moment a complete stock is going out for
the organisation of two new hospitals, each to contain 500
beds. The number of 500 has been fixed upon simply for
of each hospital. Lastly, large
unitycollected of various articles, especially of
lsrieenrpevrneessae havennttligln been
intt.he
Taking all these amounts seat out toge-
ther, we may consider the supply to be equal to the wants
of 200,000 cases, and yet, not a day passes still, but what
seine ships leave France with additional stock for the ma-
gazines of reserve established at Constantinople, and with
fresh articles that may be required for the treatment of
the sick.
The principle has been not to send more than 1,000 iron
bedsteads, since the temporary hospitals are fitted up with
straw mattresses, sheets, counterpanes, &c. But in conse-
quence of the additions subsequently sent out the iron
bedsteads now amount to 4,00, to be shortly increased to
8,000 or 10,000. The hospitals in the East will very soon
be as well off as those of Europe in every respect.
The dispensary branch has been attended to in an equal
degree, for not only is every kind of medicine supplied,. but
even the fittings up are on the spot. A, central dispensary
established at Constantinoplerfosse'Pes all those articles it
requires for supplying the par till dispensaries.
'The arrangements that have been made for many years
past by the military administration for regulating the man-
ner
of packine, the different parts of the hospital stock are
admirably adapted for determining beforehand the nature
and importance of the means required for conveying each
batch. The dimensions, contents, and weight of the chests
aro fixed, and hence the great ease experienced in forward-
ing this kind of stock. Thus for a temporal y hospital of
500 patients the proportions are-r-Administrative stock
(bedding, &c.) 9 cubic metres; weight 1,800 kilogrammes;
pharmaceutic materials 9 cubic metres; weight 1,800 kilo-
grammes.

E Leh hospital for 500 • patients has a supply of medica-
meats for three months.

As for the articles of diet, which the mess-officers of the
hospitals procure in a great measure ou the spot, the cen-
tral administration attends more to the means of supplying
the patients with such dietary articles as they peculiarly
require, and have sent out a large supply of vegetables,
preserved on the Chollet principle, to the reservemagazine
at Constantinople.

We hear that an agreement, to continue for five years!,
has been entered into between the Scottish Central and
the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. Companies. Mr.
J. A. Jamieson, secretary to the Central, is to act in the
same pracity for both companies, and Mr. Latham, of
the E(l7nburge and Glasgow, will discharge the duties of
rnamw,er under tie new arrangement.—Perthshire
Advertiser.

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