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Handwritten instructions given to Sergeant J Miles
proceeding by RMS Don to Netley Hospital, Southampton, from Jamaica, in
charge of an insane Relating to Major
Robert Fetherstone Devereux, 8th September 1881
Handwritten instructions given to Sergeant J Miles proceeding by
RMS Don to Netley Hospital, Southampton, from Jamaica, in charge of an
insane Relating to Major Robert Fetherstone Devereux
Accession Number: KO1143/01a
Handwritten instructions given to Sergeant J Miles proceeding by
RMS Don to Netley Hospital, Southampton, from Jamaica, in charge of an
insane Relating to Major Robert Fetherstone Devereux
Accession Number: KO1143/01b
Handwritten instructions given to Sergeant J Miles proceeding by
RMS Don to Netley Hospital, Southampton, from Jamaica, in charge of an
insane Relating to Major Robert Fetherstone Devereux
Accession Number: KO1143/01c
Instructions for Sergeant J Miles
Instructions for the guidance of Sergeant J Miles, 1st Battalion, Royal
Lancaster Regiment proceeding per Royal Mail Steamer “Don” to Netley
Hospital, in charge of Major R F Devereux, 2nd West India Regiment, an
Insane, with an escort of three privates.
1. You will be altogether guided in your treatment of Major Devereux by
any instructions given you by the Surgeon of the Ship, and you are to
obey all orders received from him.
2. The 3 orderlies in attendance will receive all orders from, or
through you, and they are under your orders and your are responsible for
their discipline.
3. Major Devereux is never to be permitted to be alone in his cabin –
one orderly by day, and two by night being always present.
4. You will take care that he has a cold tea water bath every morning
before breakfast, however, if he objects, no force is to be used to
compel him to bathe.
5. It is desirable that he should spend as much time as possible in the
open air, on the upper deck, subject to the approval of the Surgeon of
the ship and while there two orderlies should be in close attendance.
6. See yourself that his meals are properly served by the orderlies.
Encourage him to take as much nourishing food as possible. A knife and
fork are not allowed.
7. No liquor of any kind is to be given to him, without the prescription
of the Surgeon of the Ship.
8. On no account is he to be permitted to remain on the upper deck after
sunset.
9. He is not to be permitted to shave himself, or to be shaved by
anyone. No razor or knife to be allowed to be in his possession.
10. Attend to the state of his bowels, he constantly suffers from
Costively and when he requires medicine report to the Surgeon of the
ship.
11. On arrival at Southampton you are to proceed without delay to Netley
Hospital, and hand him over to the Orderly Medical Officer. His medical
documents have been sent by this same mail, by post to the Principal
Medical Officer, at Netley Hospital.
J J Thompson, FRCS Brigade Surgeon
Senior Medical Officer in Jamaica
Up Park Camp, Jamaica, 8 Sep 1881
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