Notes on hospitals / by Florence Nightingale.

  • Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
Date:
1863
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    division. This did not satisfy tlie physicians of the Hotel Dieu, and it was decided, I. That all the beds, single and double, should be 6^ feet high. 2. That all beds, single and double, should be 6 feet long over all. ' 3. That all single beds should be uniformly 3 feet wide over all. 4. That all double beds should be alike 5 feet 2 inches wide over all. 5. That the testers of all the said beds should have a strong cross- beam, for a cord to be solidly fastened, by which the sick can raise them- selves.—{Deliberations, etc., 1781.) In 1791, the number of beds was still far from enough, as states a Report of the Commission of Hospitals:—'In April, 1791, there were only 1650 to 1700 beds, of which 580 to 590 were large beds; counting these for two, as well as those with divisions, the 1700 beds gave about room for 2300 sick; the sick who had a bed a-piece being only 1700; 1100.others lay 2,3, and even more in the large beds.' (Report of the measures taken to accommodate at the Hotel Dieu, during the winter of 1792, 2500 sick, of whom 2000 in little beds, one in each bed, and /J00 in large beds, only two together.—Archives of the Assistance Puhliijue.)