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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3, 30 April 1912, Page 7

in May of next year the British Admiralty hour to launch the first sltip in the world to he built as a hospital To a representative of the Daily Mad. Fleet Surgeon Langford, assistant to the .Director-General of the Medical Department, said the ship, which will have a tonnage of 5000, will cost about £IOO,OOO. There will bo accommodation for 260 patients in peace and 330 in war time, and the staff will include eight medical officers and 10 nurses. Two operating theatres and bacteriological, Rental, and X-ray rooms arc fitted. Vibration will be lessened by the use of turbine engines, and bilge keels will reduce rolling. Comfortably fitted motor boats will carry the wounded from their ships. Transference to the hospital will bn by means of canvas cots controlled by electrically-driv-en cranes. Then in specially fitted lifts the patients will be taken to one of the twelve wards.