Hospital -- Fort Lancaster SHS, Sheffield TX
N 30° 40.114 W 101° 41.787
14R E 241648 N 3395974
The sign at the former Hospital on board Fort Lancaster SHS, Sheffield TX
Waymark Code: WMTW8M
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/13/2017
Views: 0
This interpretive sign stands in front of the ruins of the Post Hospital at the Fort Lancaster state historic site outside of Sheffield, Texas.
The sign reads as follows:
"HOSPITAL
Life at the fort had its share of injuries
The post hospital was an Adobe structure with a dispensary, storeroom, and a small three-bed ward. There was also an attached kitchen building. The hospital staff included a civilian surgeon, a hospital steward, a nurse, a matron, and a dedicated cook. The surgeon lived in the officers’ quarters nearby.
“The hospital is a very poor adobe building, braced up on one end . . . Dispensary and storeroom are 1 and in good order - wardroom only big enough for 3 beds - supplies ample. I condemned sundry stores and medicines as worthless and worn out.”
Inspector General Joseph Mansfield, November 20, 1860
The Field Surgeon’s tools and medicine
these are typical tools and medicines that would have been used by assistant surgeon George Taylor in 1856. A field surgeon typically treated pneumonia, dental work and the occasional gunshot or arrow wound."
Group that erected the marker: Texas Historical Commission
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary: SH 290 at Fort Lancaster Road Sheffield, TX
|
Visit Instructions:
Take a picture of the marker, preferably including yourself or your GPSr in the photo. A very detailed description of your visit may be substituted for a photo. In any case please provide a description of your visit. A description of only "Visited" or "Saw it while on vacation" by anyone other than the person creating the waymark may be deleted by the waymark owner or the category officers.