An asylum, or hospital-home, for two hundred patients : constructed on the principle of adaptation of various parts of the house to varied needs and mental states of inhabitants : with plans, etc. / by T.S. Clouston.

  • Clouston, T. S. (Thomas Smith), 1840-1915.
Date:
1879
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An asylum, or hospital-home, for two hundred patients : constructed on the principle of adaptation of various parts of the house to varied needs and mental states of inhabitants : with plans, etc. / by T.S. Clouston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    There should be a stage at one end of the amusement-room, for the performers in concerts, plays, &c. The billiard- room should not have so much side-light, and more roof-light. It should be used as a general news and reading room, with newspapers, maps, books of reference, atlases, dictiona- ries, &c, lying about. The Kitchen and Scullery (K and L). The kitchen is an oblong room lighted from the walls above the glass corridor on each side, and especially from the roof, thirty feet by twenty-eight by twenty-five in height, with all the steam-cooking boilers together in the centre of the room, and a large cooking-range next the scullery. The walls should be lined with white glazed tiles for at least six feet high, and above that should be finished in smooth cement. There are two large service openings from the kitchen into the dining-room. The scullery is a room thirty feet by twenty, properly fitted up with sinks, plate-racks, presses, &c. The Kitchen Court (M), Steward's Department (N), Boilers, Coal-House, Bake-House, Surgery, $c. (O). Beyond the scullery the glass winter-garden corridor is carried across at a right angle to that part of it which has run alongside of the kitchen and scullery. In this way free communication is got across from one side of the house to the other; e.g., for the linen to be taken from the male wards, to and from the laundry (U); for the men going to the bath-house (T) ; for the women to take articles to be repaired in the work-shops (P H). There is a large kitcheD court (M) beyond the corridor, into which the road for sup- plies, &c. (V), enters. One side of this court is a block of building (N), containing the steward's and general store- room, his office, stores for potatoes, coals, beer, &c. The glass corridor thus runs angularly round the corner of this, and then in a straight course parallel to the entrance-road up to sick-ward (E). Of course the steward's stores and office open into it, as well as into the kitchen court. It gives a unity to the whole administration of the institution. On the other side of the court is a block of building con- taining larder, milk and flour store, bakery, surgery, and