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

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    the other buildings. Tlie Large wards are warmed by open fireplaces and hot pipes, and ventilated by large flues into which the foul air is aspirated. There are octagonal wards in the hospital. Another seven years are supposed to pass before the hospital is finished. Boston City Hospital was founded in 18C4. It is composed of a central building, four pavilions for patients connected with the former by curved corridors, and some outbuildings. It accommodates about 300 patients. The centre building is for administrative purposes ; it has a higher eleva- tion than the pavilions, and possesses a cupola under which an amphitheatre is arranged. Two pavilions have two floors over a basement and attics, the others have additional floors. There are large wards, 80 feet long, 27 feet wide, and 16 feet high; and small wards containing only two or six beds respectively. There are more than 30 small wards. Fig. 4.—Pavilion of the Boston City Hospital, U.S., America. A. Ward. C. Convalescent room. S. Water-closets. B. Ward. W. Closets. h, terraces ; v, scullery; d, portico. The large wards have 14- opposite sash-windows, and are warmed by steam, circulating in pipes. Fresh air is driven in by a fan worked by steam, and enters the wards after being warmed. There are outlets in the walls for vitiated air. The water-closets and lavatories are arranged at the small sides, and a verandah runs along a few of the lower wards. Balconies are found at the outer end of the pavilions. The hospital has a library, an out-patient department, ophthalmic wards in the basement of one of the pavilions, and a skin department. The medical cases outweigh the surgical ones. Patients are either admitted by the medical superintendent or visited at their homes by the admitting physicians, who often refuse admission. The management is in the hands of trustees. About twenty medical officers visit the hospital, six internes live in the house. The average mortality is about 8 per cent. Boston Free Hospital. This building, recently constructed, is on the pavilion plan, and