Cottage hospitals, general, fever and convalescent : their progress, management and work : with an alphabetical list of every cottage hospital at present opened : and chapters on mortuaries, the relative mortality of large and small hospitals, and cottage hospitals in America : many plans and illustrations including a portrait of Albert Napper / by Henry C. Burdett.

  • Burdett Henry C. (Henry Charles), Sir, 1847-1920.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Cottage hospitals, general, fever and convalescent : their progress, management and work : with an alphabetical list of every cottage hospital at present opened : and chapters on mortuaries, the relative mortality of large and small hospitals, and cottage hospitals in America : many plans and illustrations including a portrait of Albert Napper / by Henry C. Burdett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    which reward care and skill, whilst they increase both reputation and income. To recognise these facts, is to admit that the cottage hospital has now established itself firmly in public estimation, to the great good of all concerned. In these circumstances the author has felt it necessary to re-arrange, and to almost entirely re-write the present edition. Many engravmgs and illustrations have, moreover, been added. He has endeavoured to embrace everything of importance to the successful management of hospitals and medical institutions having not more than 50 beds. Chapters have been added giving an ample account of fever hospitals, convalescent institutions, remunerative pay- ing patients, and a detailed description of many of the best managed hospitals with a considerable number of selected and model plans. In addition to this information a very careful analysis and exa- mination of the relative mortality and healthiness of large and small hospitals has been included, and also a chapter upon cottage hospitals in America. The author has reason to think there are good grounds for believing that the cottage hospital will soon prove as popular in America as it has become in Great Britain. It has always been the aim of the author to include in his books everything that could be thought to tend to promote the happiness and welfare of the classes whose wants they are intended to relieve. When he found that no book on hygiene contained