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TRAINING SHIPS.
Your Medical Officer reported on the new Training Ship "Warspite" as follows
:—
Total number of boys on board 170.
To accommodate 200.
Ship's staff on board 18.
Two shelter decks— messdeck also used for sleeping, lower deck for
gymnasium, etc.
Heads on upper deck forward— ample seating and water to lavatories by means
of a gravity tank pumped up daily.
Drinking water supplied by barge, kept in tanks on board—stated to be about
100 tons ; also used for galley purposes and washing lower mess deck.
Sick Bay on board aft away from sleeping deck, 3 beds and night lavatory.
Hospital ashore with steam disinfector and attendant.
Heating arrangements by hot water pipes, circulating tanks, and feeding baths.
General condition good.
Food stores in lockers forward.
Ventilation good.
Cleanliness good.
The whole ship compares very favourably with other Training Ships in the
River.
The Training Ship "Worcester" was inspected on the 22nd October, and
attention was drawn to the heads in use by 168 cadets on the vessel. The twelve
seated trough closet was found to be satisfactory, but it was cased round with
woodwork in such a manner as to render the arrangements insanitary. The
wooden overhead covering was in such a condition as to cause the whole place to
be saturated in wet weather.
It was also found that the discharge pipe of the night urinal enters a scupper
in board instead of over-side.
The matter was brought to the notice of the owners of the Training Ship,
and information was received from them in November that the alterations had been
effected.

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