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 connecting corridors have the peculiarity that they form a curved line. The four larger pavilions have a length of 117 feet. They are only two floors high over a basement, and each ward accom- modates fifty patients, who receive ample cubic space (1600 c. feet). The water-closets and baths are at the outer end, a nurse and separation-room at the other. Small wards are in the block (a), and the administration is located in the centre (b). (See next page.) Chicago. The general hospital is a pavilion hospital, called Marine Hospital. The large wards have 28 beds, and are ventilated by extraction of vitiated air. For this purpose shafts are found, measuring 2 feet in one direction and 3 feet in the other direction. They are heated by hot steam pipes placed at the bottom. Dixmont. The Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Dixmont, established 1861, has a middle block, 61 feet long, and two side-wings in a line, 345 feet long each. The middle building has four floors, the others three. In the wings about 250 patients may be accommo- dated. The smallest ward is 10 feet long and 8 feet wide. The corridors have a width of 12 feet, in the centre even of 17 feet, forming halls. There are 12 dining-rooms, 8 sitting-rooms, 12 bath-rooms, etc. The warming is by hot air rising from a chamber where steam pipes are found. The vitiated air is withdrawn by ventilators. Hammond Hospital, on the Chesapeake Bay, a Military Hospital built temporarily during the War, for 780 beds. As seen by the woodcut (see next page), a number of separate blocks stand in a circle, and the administrative buildings, connected with them by galleries, are in the centre. The pavilions, one floor high, had ridge ventilation ; each contained 52 beds. Thirty-six feet was the distance between two contiguous pavilions at the inner side. St. Lotiis, Mo. The city of St. Louis, which in 1863 had 100,000 inhabitants, and three hospitals containing about 400 beds for patients, now numbers about 450,000 inhabitants, and possesses a good number