double-boarding

Updated: June 25, 2025

In this same infirmary there was one surgical ward for in a listless mood I went over it where the patients had died, not of the poison, nor of suffocation, but of hunger: for the doctors, or someone, had made the long room air-tight, double-boarding the windows, felting the doors, and then locking them outside; they themselves may have perished before their precautions for the imprisoned patients were complete: for I found a heap of maimed shapes, mere skeletons, crowded round the door within.

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel - The Purple Cloud