Hospital journals routinized disease classification, patient segregation, and supply accounting into pre-printed forms.

Evidence

Similarly, Qānūn al-Dākhiliyya stipulated that the basçavus (sergeant-major) was to compile a detailed register giving details about all events happening in his company. Most importantly, he should register the names of the soldiers sent to hospital, those who were discharged therefrom, the dead, and the POWs. The daily journals (yevmiyyet) of the hospitals show clearly that the aim was not simply to intern patients there; the classification of various diseases, the segregation of the patients according to the type of disease they were inflicted by, and the calculated use of supplies, e.g. medicine, food, clothes, etc., are all a regular feature of these journals. The process of writing them was so routinized that they eventually were handed in to the various hospitals in a pre-printed table with the respective doctors simply filling in the blanks. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 724

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