The "Middlesex annual" : 1926.

  • Middlesex Hospital
Date:
1926
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The "Middlesex annual" : 1926. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Middlesex Hospital in 1750. THE ALL HELP LEAGUE. Ladies and Gentlemen, The great matter of the moment in your Hospital affairs is, you may well believe, its reconstruction and development scheme. This gives cause for much anxious thought, not only as regards the heavy cost and how to meet it, but also regarding the thousand and one details of the design and plans for the new building. Unless one is brought into touch with this department it is very hard to grasp the care and skill demanded to think out all the requirements of a modern hospital and to satisfy the needs of the various interests concerned. In addition to the wholesale design for using the space available to the best purpose, there is also the combination of architectural beauty with economy to be considered; heating, lighting, ventilation, sanitation, power, ease of access, lifts, cooking, methods of arranging operating theatres and wards to the best advantage, refrigerators, sterilisers, store-rooms, work-rooms, engineers’ and carpenters’ shops, offices for the administrative staffs, accommodation for resident officers, nursing staff and servants, Board-room, safety from fire, suitable rooms for heat and radiant baths, X-ray photography and treatment, ultra-violet ray treatment, dispensary (not to mention other points), have all to be most carefully thought out and provided. Thus you will see that recon¬ struction is no child’s play for the Building Committee and all those working
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