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I cannot contribute to discussion about hospital sites, but my instinct as a physician is to affirn the comment that specialist scurvy hospitals seem unlikely. The treatment needed is Vitamin C, and, if any sufferer was ill enough to require nursing care, general supportive care would be the need, not specialist nursing. Once the cause (and hence the treatment) was known to medical science, it is difficult to see that cases would ever have got to a naval hospital - by the time the journey had been made, they would presumably have been given appropriate nutrition, and be either better or dead! With a reasonably substantial dose of vitamin C recovery would take only hours up to a few days. Nick Hudd