Medicine and the Sea Affair: Introduction

Abstract

THIS outline of the work of the medical service of the Royal Navy, necessarily brief from the exigencies of space, may well be"prefaced with the satisfa'ctory stte-ment that thehealth of the service afloat has been excel-'lent-better, indeed, thian in times of peace. This fortunate result is-due to several factors'. in the'first place, to the effots'' 'bf preventive medicine and' hygiene; especially the improved ventilation of warships introduced shortly before 'the outbre'ak of war, a subject more fully deal; with oapp. 537-539; in tlle second place, to the healthy isolation-of 'the Grand Fleet, far from the temptations of seaports;