Hospitals, infirmaries, and dispensaries : their construction, interior arrangement, and management, with descriptions of existing institutions / by F. Oppert.

  • Oppert, Franz.
Date:
1883
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    slate tanks; the floor to be impervious; and hot and cold water supplied from taps. There should be a contrivance for boiling water on gas ; and a table with metal cover in the middle of the room. A sink is in one corner, two small windows open into a dispensing lobby, and rails are in front of them, so that only one patient can pass at a time. Waiting-Boom. It may be built in four different ways. 1. A large single room> without partitions, containing plain deal seats without backs, and a free space is left between male and female patients. 2. The room is divided in two equal parts by a partition 10 feet high running down the middle. 3. The room is divided into many compartments by high-backed seats standing thus : The females sit behind the males. 4. There are two waiting-rooms, one for male, the other for female patients, with different entrance-doors. The latter plan is the best where a great many patients attend at one time; but of course the most expensive as regards building and warming. No. 3 is not very convenient, as people cannot get out if once seated. The heating may be effected by hot-water pipes. Where low and plain seats are found, one superintendent can easily overlook the whole. The waiting-room need not be very light, but occupy that por- tion of the building in which lighting is the most difficult. For ventilation the windows must be properly constructed, and have louvres. The Consulting Rooms. They are divided from the waiting-room by lobbies, and are well lighted. Patients enter by one door, and leave by another. The rooms contain a lavatory in a recess of the wall, and cupboards for instruments, case-books, microscope, and cloth-racks. A table is in the centre, a mahogany couch, for examination in horizontal position, at the side; it should not be so low as usual; some consulting and other chairs complete the furniture. The private examination-rooms may be small, or replaced by glazed partitions or high screens. Management of a Dispensary. The affairs of a dispensary are managed by a committee. The members, twelve or fifteen in number, are elected annually by the G