A description of hospital buildings on the pavilion plan / by Albert Vander Veer ; [with illustrative plates by the architect, A.W. Fuller].

  • Vander Veer, A. (Albert), 1841-1929.
Date:
1898
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A description of hospital buildings on the pavilion plan / by Albert Vander Veer ; [with illustrative plates by the architect, A.W. Fuller]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Kacli floor will contain a nurses’ room, to be used as a duty room, and a linen-room for supplies. On each floor large, light lavatories and toilet-rooms are provided, separate sections being arranged for men and for women. These lavatories are fitted up with the best appliances, and contain bath-tubs, shower baths, wash basins and water-closets. A separate section contains a clothes chute for dirty linen, a dryer, a maids’ clinical sink, and a water-closet for the use of the nurse. All of this plumbing is well grouped, has an abundance of light and natural ventilation, as well as an independent vent shaft, and is so arranged that the probability of odor passing into the corridors is reduced to a minimum. The arrangement of the toilet sections throughout the entire hospital is well worthy of special note, as tlie problems of ample light, perfect ventilation (both natural and systematic), conveni- ence of access without too apparent directness, and protection of the adjacent rooms and corridors from odors, seem to be worked out in a thoroughly satisfactory manner. It will be noticed that the scheme of projecting the walls of the toilet sections affords means for providing cross ventilation. Pavilion B. This building, which is forty-five feet west of the administration building and fifty-five feet east of Pavilion A, will be used by a class of patients who, while not caring to incur the exi)ense of occupying the private rooms in Pavilion are willing to pay for the privilege of comparative privacy to be had in a three-bed or four-bed ward. For the sake of convenience, as well as economy in space to be devoted to the toilet section, the men are placed on the first floor, the second story being reser\'ed for women. The building makes jjrovision for forty-two patients, thirty-one of whom are private ward patients. A portion of the space on each floor is divided into strictly private rooms. Each floor contains a nurses’ duty room, with adjacent linen-room, an examination- room, a serving-room, and at the extreme south end a solarium. The lavatory section is equipped and arranged on the same prin- The basements of Pavilions A and B are dry, well-lighted cel- ciples as that in Pavilion A. lars, and are not finished or divided.