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- GLC#
- GLC02437.02879-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- December 31, 1783
- Author/Creator
- Townsend, David, 1753-1829
- Title
- [Document regarding the organization of hospital staff at West Point]
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 23.3 cm, Width: 18.5 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Signed by Townsend and Samuel Adams, both hospital surgeons. Townsend and Adams assert that one hospital mate, one steward who also serves as ward master, and four orderlies will be sufficient staff for the hospital at West Point during the winter. This staff requirement is based on the estimate that twenty "helpless patients" will be at the West Point hospital. The surgeons also note that some members of the invalid corps sometimes need to stay at the hospital.
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