Hospitals, their history, construction, and hygiene, (being a thesis for graduation at the University of Edinburgh for which a gold medal was awarded) / by J. Francis Sutherland.

  • Sutherland, J. Francis (John Francis), 1854-1911.
Date:
[1882]
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Credit: Hospitals, their history, construction, and hygiene, (being a thesis for graduation at the University of Edinburgh for which a gold medal was awarded) / by J. Francis Sutherland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    With regard to the vexed question of construction, it would seem as if the majority of medical men and others who have devoted special attention to the subject prefer wards of one storey, and favour isolation of the pavilions, because they believe that with these conditions ventilation is better and more easily carried on. For such a disposition of con- struction greater expenditure is necessary for ground and building material, and this is a consideration that operates largely ujion the minds of hospital managers who are intrusted with a judicious and economical disposal of public money. Some diffi- culty may be experienced in the selection of one particular plan to the exclusion of all others, because it cannot be said that the excellent system of pavilions generally adopted in the present day has passed out of the region of criticism and into the calm of general acceptance. This much, however, may safely be said, that we are not likely to witness any material departure from the system now carried out. With almost every existing hospital there is more or less dissatisfaction, and the results of the more recent attempts to produce perfect structures are not yet known. In these later erections the pavilion system has been adopted; but in them two and three tiers of wards are superimposed, thus showing that the excellent arrangements of the Baltimore hospital, or St. Elbi, Montpellier, have not as yet found imitators. Believing the ward to be the basis of hospitaJ con-