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Southern District.
The Principal Medical Officer, Surgeon-Major-General J. Davis, reports that the general health of the troops during the year has been good, and compares favourably with last year, also with the average of the previous eight years, 1886-1893, and the sanitary condition of the various stations, with a few exceptions were also satisfactory. The following sanitary improvements were effected:—Portsmouth, Anglesey Barracks, and Provost Prison, drainage remodelled; Victoria Barracks, drain relaid and man-holes remodelled; Milldam Barracks, drainage remodelled; Cambridge Barracks, concrete floor provided in cookhouse; No-Man’s Fort, latrines erected outside; Hilsea, flushing tank provided for main barrack sewer; Fort Brockhurst, drainage improved, camping ground levelled and drained at Browndown; Devizes, subsoil irrigation drainage being reconstructed; Dorchester, ventilating grates substituted for obsolete open grates in barrack-rooms; Portland, Station Hospital soil pipes ventilated and disconnecting pit made. Golden Hill Fort, new main drain provided from fort to sea; reservoir completed and water laid on to Cliff End, Forts Albert and Victoria; Parkhurst (Isle of Wight), general improvement of the drainage of officers’ quarters being carried out. Among defects that have been noticed, and recommendations made, are—warming of prisoners’ room and guard room, New Barracks, Gosport, defective; Hilsea, Fort Purbrook, the absorption pit for surface and ablution water insufficient; another is to be sunk, and any overflow conducted to a sewage garden; Portland, latrine and urinal required for guard-room; Christchurch, proposed to have the water supply from the municipal authorities, whose works are nearly completed; Parkhurst, drains connected with officers’ quarters suspected of being out of order; sanction to place them in perfect order obtained. Gymnastic training has materially improved the physique of the men, especially the recruits, and and appears to have had a beneficial effect on their general health.
— Army Medical Department Report For The Year 1894, Volume XXXVI (1895). Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London. source
A flushing tank for the main barrack sewer. We’ve come a long way, baby.
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The barrack rooms at Hilsea are good and well ventilated. The waterclosets at the hospital have been fitted with new flush-out apparatus.
— Army Medical Department Report For The Year 1894, Volume XXXVI (1895). Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London. source
It’s not 100% clear that “hospital” here actually refers to Hilsea, but it likely does.